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Amanda's Mid-Century Media Room
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A few weeks ago, Amanda shared her lovely home in Ohio with us, along with a thorough walkthrough of her adventurous TV mounting project that would eventually marry her love for tech and her excellent...

Today's Modern Collectionist Uses External Hard Drives

Do you happen to be an avid media collector? Perhaps purchasing a few matching hard drives may be just the perfect alternative to attempting to hoard all your LPs on tiny little shelves. Plus, we thin...

Apple's Slow Path Towards the Ultimate Home Media Server

Even with all the new Apple gadget and OS upgrades released recently, we couldn't help but wonder where all of the home focus has gone. Surely, we can't be all portability maniacs playing around with ...

Computers in the Bedroom? Next to the Bed?!

It's usually a last-resort spot that's result of a too-small bedroom or an awkward floor plan. But are there any advantages to keeping the desk next to your bed?...

Ikea Besta Hacked Into Floating Media Center

Why is it that we want our home-sweet-cozy-home to feel like a chic boutique hotel room? We don't have any clue 'Why' but we sure know how to make it happen. Try switching out your media center shelvi...

Crate & Barrel: Fulton Collection Goes Retro Modern

It's been a while since we've stepped on CB grounds. However, their new Fulton collection sure is capturing our hearts (and wallets) with its trendy minimal lines and mixed materials for a fresh, rust...

Inspiration: Sugar Crates for Toy & Media Storage

Old sugar crates picked up from the flea market receive the caster treatment, turning them into a perfect storage solution for toys, books, DVDs, remote controllers, and more. Heck, they might even wo...

External Support: Western Digital's My Book Enters the World of Big RAID Storage

If you haven't experienced a hard drive failure in your lifetime, let's just say - in the eloquent worlds of our IT team - you will. And because file storage comes so cheaply these days, there's reall...

Velvet Media Bags Are Great For Storage, Travel

We give plenty of thought to storing all of our tech parts and pieces, coming up with easy and inexpensive solutions like repurposing old photo storage boxes. But it's nice to see that we're not alone...

Hulu Goes Browser-less, Now a Desktop Resource

We—and everyone else who enjoys the flexibility to watch their favorite shows on their own time—gush non-stop about the amazing, brilliant and oh-so-addictive online resource Hulu. You can...

Look! Bathroom Vanity Turned Entertainment Center

While walking through the basement of a discount furniture store earlier this year, we stumbled upon a brightly colored orange vanity. It was in theory meant to have a bowl sink placed on top with a...

iStand Notebook Media Bundle

From the professionals who dominate the iPod-dock, iHome, comes a product bundle that will take your compact laptop and transform it into an entire desktop work and listen station that's still sleek, ...

Look! The Offices of Mamute Design Studios

Aside from having a kick ass commercial mural on the main wall, the offices of Mamute Design are just the perfect blend of functional chaos that seems to be a hit or miss when it comes to churning out...

Keepin' It Cool: Window Blinds on a Media Cabinet

Tired of having your A/V equipment overhead inside those media consoles with great designs but bear no mind to any means of ventilation? In comes the Shade media cabinet by GREATBOYS, a simple solutio...

Acer AspireRevo: The Perfect Home Theater PC?

When you are trying to find a computer for your home theater system, you try and find something that's pretty discreet and not too box-like and big. The trouble is that most computer cases are quite ...

Roundup: IKEA PS Hunting, Part Two

Back in October, we presented a roundup of the perfect IKEA media storage solution, the IKEA PS media cabinet. Even now, we can't seem to find a contender that offers such a good price, flexibility in...

Two Great Bookshelves: The Good Old US of A and Equations

Bookshelves are fun. I have so many books that they usually overflow any type of bookshelf that I use. They can also hold CDs, DVDs and all sorts of media as well. The trouble is that most people have...

Check Out This Human Machine Interface: Dr. Ho's For Your Face

With Apple announcing updates to the iPhone OS what we have come to know as the human computer interface keeps evolving and getting better. But damn, we hope our relationship with technology doesn't ...

Good Questions: Must... Find... This Perfect TV Stand

Unplggd reader James is lookin' for a little help in the TV stand department. Any takers? I recently moved in with my girlfriend in Boston and we have a really, really tiny space to pull all of our s...

mobiBLU: The UFO Media Player That Looks Out of this World

Everyone has iPods. Even people who aren't Apple fanboys. Why? There are multiple reasons behind getting an iPod. Nowadays, you have a choice between the gorgeous iPod Touch in small HD sizes or iPod ...

WONK NYC: The Astoria Media Cabinet

One of the more sophisticated pieces of high end furniture to hit the streets we've seen lately, the WONK Astoria Media Cabinet comes in flashing those modern right angles we've all become so fond of,...

A Portable Media Stand With its Eye on the Skies

The Apple iPhone and iPod are the king and queen to a host of modern gadgets that act as your portable media centers. Music, movies and TV are all available at your fingertips anywhere you need them, ...

How To Create Your Own Media Server

We've seen more than a few simple ways of storing, backing up and accessing your family's data. You might thing that the best way would be to buy one of the media servers, like the one pictured above ...

Toshiba Media Server Syncs Your Multimedia Library

This media server is a concept unveiled from Toshiba at CEATEC 2008. It's supposed to show how a cellphone, this media server and a TV (with wireless HD) could interact in the near future. We're just ...

Bathomatic: Luxury Tech for the Tub

Put another score on the board for "wired" bathrooms being the newest home trend. The Bathomatic is a fully automated digital bath filler that allows you to fill up your bathtub remotely, even going s...