Apartment Therapy Tagged: gadget

It's Almost Gadget-Gifting Season!

As an avid reader of Unplggd, you're an authority on all things about the technophile lifestyle. That's why we want to round up your favorite tips and advice on giving and getting gadget gifts this ho...

New Ipod Nano Torn Down By Ifixit

It hasn't even been a day since the new iPod Nano became updated with a video camera, pedometer, and an FM tuner. Now iFixit has posted a complete teardown on this new iPod, to show you exactly what g...

Roundup: Weird and Wonderful Gadget Holders

Our gadgets and gizmos tend to drift around the house, but we dream of a day when we can commit to one location for charging and storage. If that day ever comes, we might be tempted to create a col...

Energizer Xpal: Cheap and Effective Power Pack

It's a given that at some point your fancy smartphone will run out of power. These devices tend to suck a lot of juice, which is why there are so many different power packs available to recharge them....

Tech Tip: Use Menu Settings to Learn a Language

Tech helps out and makes our lives easier in far too many ways to count (Isn't advancement the whole point of technology?). But here's one tip courtesy of Geek Sugar that's as surprising as it is usef...

Look! The Incredible Portable Charging Mat

A typical home will have a bunch of devices that need charging every single day. We know that most of you just spread them around, splitting up wall sockets with power strips and getting the most out ...

Hot or Not: Knee Defenders

Though this product has been on the market for several years, we've never seen it in action. Designed to slide onto the arms of your tray table, these plastic gizmos prevent the person in front of ...

Digital Luggage Scale

We have to confess, weighing suitcases at our house usually looks like a scene from the Keystone Cops. Mom's favorite technique involves weighing herself, then weighing herself holding the suitcase...

If Sales Keep Growing, Will Smartphones be a Necessity?

In the top five most awesomely awkward moments that forced social networking events provide, this has to be up there: Exchanging contact info with a possible parter who doesn't have an email address Y...

iFixit Gadget Teardowns Lets You Peek Inside Your Devices

We love our gadgets and gizmos, as well as our HDTVs and home entertainment systems. They are part of our daily lives and people have trouble spending time apart from them. Sometimes, you just wonder ...

The New Bored-In-The-Car Game: Guess the Gadget

I just got back home to Atlanta after a weekend road trip (24 hours in three days, whew!) to my hometown of Miami to be a bridesmaid in my best friend's wedding. As soon as we hit South Florida, aka t...

Exploding Gadgets Remind Us To Check Our Models

Yikes! What a disaster! This Mac PowerBook exploded recently in a London marketing office, apparently filling this tiny cubicle with smoke and sparks. There's still no word on whether or not the lapto...

Happy Birthday, Television!

January 26 is a pretty important day this year. Not only is it the start of Chinese New Year (Gong Hey Fat Choy!), but it’s also the birthday of the most popular home tech gadget, according to the s...

Keep Your Gadget on a Leash. No, Really.

Kids are precious cargo. We strap them down and wrangle them in everywhere we go, with the really paranoid among us controversially tying their kids the the other end of a leash. So in the case of our...

Find the Instruction Manual to Anything, for Free!

Buying a big gadget; like a computer, a car or a refrigerator; is a really big deal. For months, you've probably saved up and shopped around for the best brands and the best deals, and n the process, ...

Blogging Wired: Antisocial Gadgets that Should be Banned

Sometimes technology designed to advance communication can actually work to set communication back a few years (We're looking at you, Bluetooth headset guy that looks like he's talking to himself whil...