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Take Care When Flying With Gadgets

Flying restrictions have made taking trips away from home safer than ever (even if a little more frustrating). But the New York Times is reporting that there's still one last unrestricted flight fire ...

Do You Participate In Tax Free Holidays?

Over the weekend we came face to face with hundreds, if not thousands, of raving mad parents and students gearing up for back to school at our local big box retailer. Little did we know, it was a sa...

Question: What do you do with your old product boxes?

Apple products are known for their innovative packaging design which is what compels me to save them. But electronic boxes are also handy to have if you ever move or sell your electronics - but in t...

How To: Dust Small & Hard To Reach Places

Dust and dirt is a never ending problem and if we were going to make a comic book with household villains, dust (along with static) would be right there leading the pack (or would it be posse?). Whe...

Look! Small Kitchen Loaded with Automation

When you live in an NYC high-rise where square footage is hard to come by, sacrifices must be made in order to accommodate one's love for electronics in a central space. Fortunately, they had one larg...

Geeks Who Love Toys Can Wear Their Heart on Their Sleeve

We've always done a lot of talk about geeks at Unplggd, from yesterday's post about the complications that arise when geeks mary non-geeks to the post more than a year ago about how to woo your geek v...

Gazaro Sifts Through Not-Worth-It Electronics Sales

So, kind of off-topic, but has anybody noticed that Subway is offering footlong subs for $5? Of course you have, they won't shut up about it. But did you notice that the footlong tuna sub is regularly...

Hot or Not? Skinning Your Electronics

Like body tattoos dating back to Eurasian practices around the 5th millennium BC, people will always have the human urge to express themselves in such a mass consumer culture. Luckily, since gadgets t...

Look! LEGO Camera: No You Can't Take it Apart!

LEGO is a favorite of ours. Most of us have played with the bricks when we were children, which is why we still love them. There are a number of things that are available in LEGOs, from computers to s...

Broken Gadget? No Warranty? Take it Apart!

Stuff breaks. For no reason sometimes. We broke the little USB hub for our Rock Band controllers last night, and we have no clue how we did it. Assuming that those little gizmos aren't too expensive t...

How To: Camouflage Your Wii Sensor Bar

Honestly we didn't think that the Wii sensor bar, the thin bar that you probably put on top of your TV to read your Wii-motes' signals, was ever a mess to hide. Nintendo did a pretty good job of makin...

How to... Recycle Your Old Gadgets For Quick Money

Some of you are purging your old or unused electronics for a clean, minimalist media center or desktop. Because you've been on our green living site, Re-Nest.com, you'll probably know that the respons...