Apartment Therapy Tagged: cord

Who Says Power Strips Have to be Boring?

Not us, that's for sure. Why not be a tech rebel and scream out from your urban dwelling, "I will not be ashamed to show off my Electric Man power strip! I will not hide my cords any longer!"...

DIY Kit Lets You Coil a Cord Lamp

We're seeing the trend lately that lamps getting proud about showing off their cords, but they've all been high-design (read: really expensive) items—until now......

How to Shorten an Ethernet Cord

This DIY project requires a few special tools, but the good news is that they're cheap and oh-so-worth-it if you're desperate for a just-right length of ethernet cord, Goldilocks....

iStubz iPod Cords: Useless and Necessary at the Same Time

The easiest way to battle cord messes in your home is to eliminate them entirely. That's why we dig wireless products so much. But if you can't go wireless, why not try and eliminate as much extra cor...

Boost Your iPhone's Battery Life With This Simple USB Cord

Being stuck on the road with no way to charge up your iPhone or iPod can get annoying fast. Thankfully, there are a number of solutions out there than can boost the power of your beloved device. We've...

PlugLock Keeps Big Transformers in Place

Sometimes the industrial design, or lack thereof, of some products amazes us. If whetever you're powering needs to have an enormous transformer attached, design the cord so it's placed somewhere in th...

Tech Tip: Use a Plastic Card to Organize Cables

So you've arranged your desk so that all your necessary peripheral cords and cables are mostly hidden. You've made sure just the business ends of your iPod and digital camera cords are peeking out. Th...

Repurpose a Tube Sock as a Playful Wire Cozy

Perfect in a kid's bedroom, a dedicated playroom, a living room that's turned into a playroom or just hiding behind the TV of one very playful adult, this idea makes a cord wrangler out of an unexpect...

Make Your Own Charging Pocket from a Shampoo Bottle

At home, we've got our cell phone's power cord "wired" (read: we taped it) behind the headboard, giving us just a little piece of the business end of the charger sitting on our pedestal nightstand. Bu...

This Laptop Essentials Kit is Your New Travel Buddy

Maybe you're traveling for business. Maybe you're traveling for pleasure but you just gotta take an entire tech arsenal with you to keep tabs on all the happenings back at home. Either way this laptop...

Coil Your Outdoor Cords In Plastic Waste Baskets

If you're planning to show a midnight movie outdoors on the projector screen or wire up your deck with great sound, you're going to have a lot of heavy duty outdoor cords working their way through you...

Can You Spot What This DIY Lamp is Made From?

This ultra-modern lamp, the result of a quick DIY project, is actually made from a household tool you might keep in your cleaning closet. Can you spot the re-purposed piece?...

Simple DIY Lamp Lets Tech Take the Stage

What you're looking at up there is the most minimalist of lamps, hand crafted from recycled lab equipment. No DIY project could be easier, we assure you. But the result is simple and, in it's own indu...

Side Wired Desk: Saves You the Trouble of Bending Over

We all have problems with wires. In a perfect world, everything would be unplggd, but since we can't have that yet, we have to find other solutions to manage the mess of wires that are found underneat...

Cords are No Longer a Thing to Hide

We spend most of our time here at Unplggd trying to help you hide the unsightly cords that tangle and dangle behind your desks and media centers. Check out posts like the one about the DIY pegboard un...

Wolverine Makes a Damn Good Cord Wrangler

You gotta love scouring GeekSugar for random-but-brilliant observations. That's where we spotted a cool solution of storing your myriad of coffee table remotes in an elegant glass vase. Now, something...

DIY Cord Wrangler Hides Peripheral Wires

We all struggle sometimes with keeping a clean desk, some more than others. Me? I'm having an impossible time. I bought a great looking desk not too long ago, the only caveat being that it has no draw...

iDesk: If You Love Macs But Hate Wires

We think you'd have to really hate dealing with cables to spend $3000 on this desk, but it does go eerily well with your iPod, iPhone and iMac in both styling, compatibility and, of course, nomenclatu...

WM25 Wire Stay: Keep Those Cords Where You Need Them. On Top of Your Desk

I have recently been having trouble with my wireless printing setup at home which has resulted in me stringing a USB cable up and over the back of my desk from the printer below. Because I only run la...

Snap Alarm Tries, Fails to Improve Smoke Alarm Design

Most smoke detectors are ugly. We're not trying to argue that. But we're just wondering if this solution, the Snap Alarm, is any better looking. We're thinking that no matter how many different lamp...