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Defining the Digital Home

Now here's a problem space we can all associate with. The home. Well, let me be specific; the digital home, to be exact. We all have our definitions of what our future homes should and could look like...

DOoP Multi Sensory Alarm Knows How Long You've Slept

It's a known fact that most adults don't get enough sleep. With jobs, kids, and our daily occupations, sleep seems to be the last thing on our minds. In other parts of the world, naps have always help...

Do You Keep Digital and Paper Records?

We love using online organizational tools. But sometimes, pen-and-paper have to rule. Where do you double-up on your digital and paper records?...

QLOCKTWO: A Reading Lovers' Way of Telling Time

If you're looking for an eye-catching wall piece in your home, perhaps the ultra-modern QLOCKTWO (Strange name, ain't it?) digital wall clock might just be up your alley. That is, if one of your life ...

Re(al)view: Firestone Big Joe 3 Digital Power Amplifier

Firestone has been kind enough to send us a few of their products recently and today we take an in-depth look at a new digital amplifier. The Big Joe 3, as its numerimacality suggests, is the third g...

Sam Hecht's Jetlag Alarm Clock

We love this small, but smart looking travel alarm clock we spied over at one of our favourite Los Angeles design dealers, A+R. The Sam Hecht designed travel alarm is notable for being super easy to...

How To: Turbocharge Your Airport Express with a DAC

Since we've clearly established that wireless streaming around your house does not add jitter or degradation to audio, today we're going to let you in on a little secret that will make your music soun...

Final Frame: Digitus Pixel Door & Address Numbers

Digitus Pixel Door & Address Numbers...

Bang & Olufsen BeoTime Alarm Clock: It's A Metal Stick!

If you are looking for a unique clock for your home office or your workplace, this is it. BeoTime can be brandished around and operated with one thumb. Clocks come in all shapes, sizes and colors, but...

Harc Lee's Time-Telling Wall Switch

Designed by New York's own designer Harc Lee, the Time Switch acts much differently than we originally had in mind. Instead of integrating a clock into a wall switch, it is catered more towards design...

Hot or Not? A Digital Ruler

We sorta cringed when the iPhone store started filling up with "digital levels," but this one.. we're not too sure. Combining the values of a traditional ruler with the advantages of a digital interfa...

The Perfect Bedside Accessory: Stylish Eklipse Clock Radio

Admittedly, this gadget isn't bringing any mind-blowing new technology to the iPod-dock-slash-alarm-clock market. But hot damn if this isn't the sexiest thing to hit your nightstand since you bought a...

Hot or Not? The Nixie GPS Clock

We love these old-style Nixie clocks. Most of them are made to celebrate Steampunk and there is no shortage of them available right now. Having a great clock on your desk makes telling time a cinch. T...

News: HDMI 1.4 is Coming to a TV Near You

It feels just like yesterday when we started seeing flat panels making their way into the mainstream market. Now, with already 4 revisions of the HDMI standard - the latest being HDMI 1.4, we gain the...

48 Hands on 24 Clocks Show 1 Time of Day

Created by Swedish designers Humans Since 1982, this digitalesque-display clock is an art installation called Clock Clock—and it's really just an optical illusion of 24 tiny analog clocks that s...

The Clock of Clocks: Using Analog Clocks to Created Digital Time

We love our clocks. Even though watches and clocks seem to be getting less and less use these days, it's always refreshing to have a nice clock in the living room, the kitchen or the office to tell ti...

Your New Business Trip Companion: A Card Scanner!

If you're the kind of guy who thinks business cards are silly and would rather just trade info with a connection by typing on your Blackberrys, you might also be the kind of guy who has a small, lid-l...

Hot or Not? Demy Digital Recipe Reader

Here's a question for all of you in unplggd land. We have seen people repurpose old laptops into kitchen computers before. While the typical email checking, casual web surfing and even playing back yo...

The Downside of a Digital Life: Leaving Memories Behind

Even though we're the most connected generation ever, I can't help but feel like we might also be the generation to leave the least behind for our great grandchildren. Today, we have photo albums and ...

What is This Gadget and What Does it Do?

We spotted this pretty stellar camouflaged home office on Lifehacker, belonging to reader MacintoshDZNR. The office itself is great and unique, but we couldn't help but stare at the low-budget-movie s...

Wind Chime Alarm Clock: A Gentler Way to Wake Up

If you are like us, you must hate getting up mornings, especially Monday mornings. However, it's not like you have a choice really. You have to get up. There is no way around this fact. The only thing...

LEGO Boombox and MP3 Players: Cheap and Ready For Your Kids

If you are looking for some great gadgets for your kids, look no further because LEGO has teamed up with Digital Blue to produce some LEGO themed devices. They aren't fancy, but they sure get the job ...

Draw-In Digital Message Cards

When you care enough to send the very best and most geeky greeting card you can find, you'll probably settle on these cards from Urban Outfitters' Web site that we spotted on always-on-top-of-cool-tec...

Grohe's Digital Bathroom: Worth the Money?

Even though I take baths from time to time, I've always been a shower person. I take showers everyday and they are part of my morning routine. Usually, if I don't shower, I don't really wake up. Since...

Help Choose Which Futuristic Alarm Clock Design Is Manufactured

click for more pics Love 'em or hate 'em, Tokyoflash definitely pushes the borders of traditional time keeping with their unique and unusual array of wristwatches. They're now sponsoring a competition...