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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...

Classy Digital Switchplates by SDesignUnit

Whether you prefer to keep it Cartesian or having some Sailor Moon infusion, it never hurts to get a little creative when it comes to adding a bit of character one of the most overlooked fixtures in o...

Retro Phone: Combining the Old with the New

Buying phones is always something problematic. There are so many phones out there with so many features. As a base rule, cordless phones are cool, but they rarely have the same reception as a corded m...

Flickr Finds: A Musician's Corner Desk Alternative

This music/computer room by Unplggd reader, Alfonso Surroca, takes advantage of a small space by mounting a shelf with extra sheet rock support for his iMac beside his digital piano. It's simple, spar...

D/A Clock: Digital Look With An Analog Feel

New school and old school at once. When I first saw this clock, I instantly had memories of clock radios from my childhood. On one hand I remembered bright red LED's and on the other hand, old flip cl...

Colorsonic Codes MP3s by Color... Wait, what?

If there's one thing we love more than stylish and sleek tech gadgets, it's color-coding. Ok, maybe that statement was a bit inflated—but we really do get a little excited when we can organize b...

Mesh and Eclipse: Two New Interesting Looking New Clocks

We all need clocks. It's the only way that we know how to effectively manage time. Either we are late or we are on time, that's what our clocks tell us. In our modern age, people are carrying watches ...

NEWS: Senate 'OK's 4-month Delay to Digital TV Turnover

So after all the "Are you ready for the switch to digital TV?" commercials, advertisements and blog posts—hey, we're guilty, too!—it looks like there might not be a rush to run out and dig...

Antrepo's Minu Tuner: The Digital Successor to the Time Tuner

A great looking clock is always needed. You need one in your bedroom, in your office and they can be used almost everywhere else. The trouble is that most clocks look mundane and uninteresting. That's...

Make Digital Photo Frames a Little Sexier With Ikea

Happy New Year everyone! We're sure you're happy to see Unplggd back with regular coverage after our end of 2008 roundup—but bloggers need a break to celebrate the holidays, too! Did you notice ...

The 10 Best and Coolest Timekeepers
Best of 2008

Whether you're a meticulous organizer who plans their life down to the second or a free spirit who marches to the ticking of their own timepiece, you have a clock (or seven) in your life and home to k...

JetLag Travel Alarm Clock Is a Small Space Dweller's Dream

Don't know exactly what it is, but we love the look of this tiny, plain dual-display digital clock. Originally meant for traveling, we think this tiny alarm clock could be just as useful to non-flying...

The Manfrotto: Weird Name, Seriously Small Tripod

If a semi-permanent tripod mounted to your camera and built in with a case wasn't your style (you already have a case you like, maybe), and a water bottle tripod is juts not profesh enough for you (yo...

Epoch Clock: A Great Way to Convert Time

Have you ever wanted to convert time into other formats? We don't mean converting from a 12-hour cycle to 24, but in different number formats, like binary and hexadecimal? Well now there is an easier ...

The Minute Glass: A Green Alarm Clock

We all have had problems walking up in the morning, and that snooze button isn't always a good idea. The few extra minutes that we get thanks to snoozing aren't really restful. Alarms and clocks do co...

The Shadow Clock: Designed for Minimalism

As gadgets evolve, our need for a traditional wrist clock or wall clock diminish. For example, we don't have one in our apartment. Then again, we've never seen a clock like this one before. Cell phone...

Take Your Own Focal-Point Worthy Photos with Flipbac

It's really easy to take bad pictures. Having taken a few photography classes in school and learning rules about perspective and composition, we'd like to think that we make less mistakes than most am...

The Escape Clock: When The Snooze Button Isn't Big Enough

A lot of us have problems getting up in the morning. A lot of us also use the snooze button, even though that it's not that good. Additional sleep that comes thanks to the snooze button is fitful at b...

Wood and Voice: New Clocks Try Different Things

We all needs clocks. Clocks have existed for a long time and the basic technology hasn't changed that much. Sure, there are new clocks that use funky elements, like the Philips Wake-Up Light, but most...

Solar and SNES Digital Clocks : Videogames, Sun and Time Combined

Most households had a SNES. In fact mine had an NES, SNES, N64 and GameCube one after the other. The Nintendo brand is ubiquitous with gaming. It's no wonder with all the Wii craze that people have st...

Flickr Time is Down With O.P.P (Other People's Pictures)

A great complement to the Flickr-number-image-fed Clockr we featured in our roundup of the 10 best free screensavers, the Flickr Time screensaver doesnt use pictures of numbers to show the time, it us...

The Great Digital Analog Clock

In our modern lives, there's always a small conflict between the digital and analog worlds. More and more, the analog technologies of the past are left aside in favor of the new digital ones. Nowhere ...

Steampunk Clocks: Using Rare Vacuum Tubes To Give That Great Vintage Feel

Vacuum tubes scream Steampunk and old diodes. If you think that the 1500-LED digital clock is too fancy for you, maybe you should go for something older and more vintage. Recently, a dot-matrix number...

Sanyo ALBO: A Digital Picture Frame With Retro Looks

Modern televisions look better when they are housed in retro styled cases. Forget the black or silver shiny plastic frames, they all just end up looking the same. When you see something like the Brio...

Two Great New Clocks: Bringing a Touch of the Analog to our Digital World

Even though we live in a digital world, a touch of the analog just looks good sometimes. Analog clocks and watches will never go out of style. That's why it's cool to find new ways of displaying the s...