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Logitech Mice Will Now Work on Glass Surfaces

As long as optical mice have existed, it's been known that they don't work well with glass surfaces. That's always been a shame, since there are some really nice glass desks out there. Well, you won't...

Geco: Solar Powered Robot Cleans Windows

If there's one thing that frustrates us it's cleaning windows. Don't get us wrong, the glass on the inside is easy to clean, but a lot of us live in condos or apartments, making it impossible to clean...

Inspiration: Fluxus Weaving Glass and Light Together

Imagine a different sort of light fixture, one that could just hang from the ceiling and give a natural light, almost like the light from the sun. Now think about how these lights are put together. Th...

Kenwood Speakers Encase Your Sound in Glass

While the blue LED's are not quite our style, without the blue light, this glass and speaker combo from Kenwood could be a nice visually unobtrusive source of sound on a desk or bookshelf. Definitely ...

Motherboard Mirror: Who Knew Circuits Could be so Sexy?

Looking for a mirror with a little extra flair? While we wouldn't advise this solution for plucking and shaving in the bathroom (like that guy up there who we guess must enjoy working around the "circ...

Drink it In with the Wine Glass LED 'Light Bulb'

For your next cocktail party—or beer pong party of that's more your style—why not have a little fun and replace some of the lights in your house with these light bulb lamps shaped like win...

Too Many Remotes? Here's an Idea for Clearing Your Coffee Table...

With a media room packed with gadgets for TV, DVD, Blu Ray, Digital Cable, CD and MP3 entertainment, remote storage is sure to get tricky. You could turn to our post on the best remote control storage...

Philippe Rahm's Air Exchanger: Wood + Glass = Fresh Air

I don't think we have ever talked about an air exchanger on unplggd. Good looking air purifiers yes, but not air exchangers. This is probably because air exchangers aren't particularly exciting and ar...

The Glass iPhone: The iPhone That We All Want

What would the iPhone of the future look like? We don't know, but designer Mac Funamizu has come up with a few interesting designs, that look like they came out of the future. It's made mostly out of ...

Flickr Finds: Two Glass Table Imac Setup

Guillaume Laplace has got a really nice home office setup. Two glass desks form a 90 degree angle in a corner. We usually see this setup with wooden tables, but it just looks better with glass. For so...

Flat Glass Panels to Kill the Lightbulb?

Planilum. What sounds like the material that should be powering the flux capacitor in Marty McFly's Delorean is actually a special type of light emitting glass. At first glance, it looks like many of ...