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RF Remote: Control Your Home Theater Through Walls

There are a lot of different remotes out there. The main reason why people enjoy them so much is that they enable you to control all of the components of your home theater system with a single remote....

Look! Fireplace in a Home Theater

Fireplaces are usually seen as obstacles to those movie and tech buffs who are jonesing for a serious theater setup. The hearth of the home is usually just in the way when you're trying to mount a 62-...

Flickr Find: California Casual Home Theater

This self-proclaimed Cali Casual home theater is certainly clean and simple, but does all the high-tech gadgetry in the otherwise sparse room overwhelm the potential calmness that you'd want in your l...

Look! Speakers That Can Be Used As Shelves

Speakers tend to stick out in any room, no matter how thin they are. Sure, you can camouflage them a bit, but at the end of the day, they will be quite visible and they might ruin the look of your pla...

DIY Project: Repurpose a Coffee Table Into A HDTV Stand

With HDTVs getting thinner and thinner, and even being able to stream your NetFlix movies directly without any extra hardware, you'll need less and less space to showcase them. That being said, we don...

How To: Create an Outdoor Theater (on the Cheap)

Drive-in theaters were on the wane even during our childhood, but we still nostalgically recall our family visits. These days, you may be hard-pressed to find a drive-in in your area, but it's still p...

Re(al)view: NuForce W-1 Subwoofer

We have talked a bit about Nuforce here before. We love their design for its minimalism and its refined detailing. A few months back we took a look at their now famous Icon with S-1 speakers. The...

Tech Tour: Modern Tech Living In London
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Name: Chittagong Location: London Size: 98m2 Years lived in: 1 year While Chittagong may not have many beat on duration of living, with the accumulated character that many older "lived-in" spaces ...

From a Garage to a Sweet Home Office

For most of us working stiffs, we only buy or rent as much house as we deem is necessary to our lifestyles. That often means that we won't be paying a premium to aquire an extra bedroom just to use as...

BFG Phobos HTPC: Too Hefty for Modern Living Rooms?

Despite its shiny gloss finish, it's the bulk of BFG's Phobos home theater PC that becomes questionable here. We recall having a PC this size back in 1999 when using an extra desktop PC in the living ...

Sidecar Furniture TV Console by David Johnson

If there was one piece we could imagine ourselves actually wanting for our own apartment that we during our parade of the Dwell on Design exhibition this past weekend, it would have to be this TV Cons...

Futuristic Art Deco Home Theater
Home Theater Design

The result of the collaboration between Cinema Design Group and Boca Theater bucks the cushy-plush trend of premier home theater design for interior decor that has a bit of Star Wars Empire aestheti...

Iceberg Console: An All-White Home Theater

This Overstock piece immediately inspired us to put together a room that could compliment its biomorphic modern form as the foundation of a living room home tehater: an Eames La Chaise, a white modern...

Multimedia Seat: Perfect Complement For Your Home Theater

When you are getting ready to watch your favorite movie or playing your favorite game, it's usually great to have a specific seat in which you can get really comfortable. It's important that these tec...

Close-Up: Glen's Ever So Tasteful Tech

Name: Glen Benton Location: Gothenburg, Sweden >>>View Slideshow Glen Benton's Gothenburg apartment is just about the perfect idealization of an Unplggd dream abode. Every corner of the apartment is ...

How To: Improve Your Home Theater System Sound

Okay, so you've vested enough dough into your 5.1 home theater sound system to pay off the rest of your car payments, but all of those hard-earned dollars might be going to waste if your system isn't ...

Acerbis Integrated Projection Screen Unveils Up!

The common solution for a projection screen setup is to either install a pull-down screen (like the one we have in our apartment) or to place or paint a permanent surface to project a picture onto. An...

News: YouTube XL is Optimized for Your TV

After having spent almost six months in beta-testing, YouTube XL is finally available. What is YouTube XL? It's a version that will fit well onto your TV. It's also supposed to stream to all of those ...

Computers and Home Decoration: Finally a Way to Make it Happen

It's true that most computers don't really fit into stylish living rooms. Usually, they tend to stick out like sore thumbs. As desktops get smaller and smaller, companies are trying to find ways of ma...

Close-Up: Contemporary Meets Modern Geek

click for more picsWhen we first stumbled on Tila's and her partner's space, we were blown away by how well they mixed together sheer simplicity with high-end technological mastery. Using lots of care...

Close-Up: Pulver's Retro Modern Home Theater

click for more picsHave a love for vinyl? Dig wooden retro cabinets? Oh, and do you also get kicks out of hiding your woofer in cute little boxes? Well, get ready because you're gonna be in a for a tr...

MECO: Side Table Computing

The stealth living room PC. We don't know what's cooler, the fact that you have your home theater PC and associated equipment hidden away in a sleek package or what looks to be a motorized access door...

Inspiration: A Personal Cyber Attic

While it's not our first time witnessing the transformation of attics into dedicated home theaters, this comfortable confine refines the purpose of having sloped ceilings, which contributes to improvi...

Close-Up: Miper's High End Touch of Classy

click for more picsAh, man pads. How we love them despite their sheer impracticality. Everything including the high end B&W speakers, turntables, and drool-worthy Hi-Fi equipment keeps us all scratchi...

Close-Up: A Godly Attic Media Room Renovation

click for more picsAfter a year's hard labor, Sylt's finally ready to show us his attic media room designed for media gods, made all the more convincing with beautifully crafted mahogany chairs shaped...