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Make a Polished and Modern Concrete Desk

It looks like this workspace is still waiting to be all wired up from the photo above, but the potential of this modern poured concrete desktop is obvious—and it's all DIY!...

DIY Dali Style Melting Clock Project

Inspired by one of Salvador Dali’s most famous paintings, The Persistence of Memory, Instructables contributor "fungus amungus" dismantled an IKEA RUSCH clock and combined it with an oven warped rec...

DIY LED Indicator Tells You When the Garage is Open

Those nights spent sitting up in bed wondering if the garage door is open will be a thing of the past if you put this DIY project to work in your home......

Why Not... Use an Antique Fridge as a Bookshelf?

OK, this trend is officially blowing up! First we see people busting out the screens of vintage TVs for storage and then dissecting the insides of a radio for a safe keeper. Now, a fridge stays (mostl...

Old DVDs Hide Secret Storage in this DIY Project

For those of you with valuables to hide, we've shown you how to hide a 'safe' inside of a vintage radio. Here's another DIY storage solution that will make you feel like James Bond......

Look! Use a Whiteboard as a Desktop

Whiteboards, whether adapted for use in the home or in the office, are a great tool for brainstorming, jotting down notes and keeping a daily score of the To-Do's, Have-Done's and "Please don't forget...

DIY Track Lighting In Any Room in the House

Track lighting, several movable lamps along a wired track, is the perfect solution for highlighting artwork on the walls, collections on shelves or your home's architectural details. But it can also j...

DIY Monster Speakers Scare and Charm

OUr favourite DIY site Instructables held what they called the Art of Sound contest, where participants are being asked to create a project that "creates something beautiful with or around sound". C...

DIY: Turn On Your Home Computer With a Cell Phone

We're warning you: this is a pretty advanced little project. But if you've got the tech know-how, come inside to see how you can rig your home computer to turn on from anywhere in the world with a pho...

How To: Make a Portable CD Case Speaker System

We've practically ditched all of our CD collection for digital media (though our vinyl collection remains intact), and we think many of you Unplggd readers are following suit as CD sales shrink and di...

DIY Smart Coaster for Heat Sensitive Tongues

A stress-free and relaxing tea time (or coffee time or [insert hot beverage of your choice here] time) in a cozy corner can take an abrupt halt when your tea is scalding hot. All of a sudden your cozy...

Look!: Floppy Disk Bill Caddy

Way to recycle! Garagemonkeysan at Instructables saw a need—in their case, they needed something to organize their bills—and filled it with unused household castaways. The best part? He us...

DIY Project: A Projector Screen that Plays Art Piece During Down Time

Projectors are great substitutes for televisions because they're a bit less invasive than say a 50-inch flat screen. You can easily hide a projector amongst books on a shelf, but that screen... Unles...

DIY: Celebrate The Festival of Light-Emitting Diodes

One of our favorite things about the holiday season is how people find a way to celebrate tradition in their own personal style. We love the (free!) design-inspired holiday cards from Dwell covered on...

Look: DIY Automated Pop-up Kitchen Spice Rack

Mix one part Extreme Makeover: Home Edition with another part Alton Brown and Good Eats and you might find yourself with something as geeky keen as this pop-up spice rack... ...

DIY: Hoodie Laptop Sleeve

We wouldn't consider ourselves the Paris Hilton of Tech, but we find that our laptops, like her chihuahuas, are always getting new clothes to wear. We just always seem to buy laptop sleeves, or we fin...

Easy Mod: CD Drum Case Planters

This week we'll be introducing some possible candidates for new Unplggd bloggers. The first we're welcoming is Taryn Fiol, who is starting her week off with some green ideas for the tech home office. ...

How To: Turn Your Vinyl Figure Into Speakers

Novelty speakers tend to be just that, novelties. Tinny sound, lo-fi audio, and the inability to get the party started right. Instructables user, fungus amungus, hacked his own $25 Kid Robot Munny f...