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Posts tagged “phone”

The Striking New Bang & Olufsen BeoCom Does VOIP

It's always nice to see that everyone is updating their new products, especially Bang & Olufsen. The Danish company has always been known for their incredible-looking devices. This new one is no excep...

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...

How to... Color Dye Plastic Computer Parts

When we asked if you have a go-to color when you're picking out gadgets, we found that most liked their gadgets to remain neutral, but modern. Black-, white- and silver-colored stuff took the stage. B...

Novophone Retro Handset

OK, we freely confess to a love of all things retro, from 8-track players to MCM furniture. We try to balance that love of retro with an affection for tiny up-to-date gadgets, and are always deligh...

MagicJack Flying Off The Shelves, Plans Femtocell

When is the last time you used your landline? In fact, do you still have a real landline, or is it now a VoIP line, or does it come provided from your internet service provider in a handy package? A l...

Make the Most of Tech When You Work from Home

We all spend a lot of time and money getting our home offices looking good (That's why we're all here reading Unplggd, isn't it?). It makes you want to spend every minute that you can in there. You mi...

The 4 Gadgets You Might Be Missing in Your Hurricane Kit

Growing up in beautiful Miami, Florida; all anybody could ever talk about at the beginning of June is hurricane season. Are you prepared? Did you stock up on plywood, water and batteries? For all our ...

Look! Kyocera's Foldable Phone: Folds Up in Your Pocket

Wouldn't it be cool to be able to fold up your phone when you don't need it? How about only partially unfolding it in order to make a quick call or to send a text message? That's the concept that Kyoc...

Look! New Shrunken iPhone Available: Not Made By Apple!

Rumors have been circulating for years now about the iPhone Nano. Will Apple ever release it? The trouble is that more and more companies are coming up with iPhone-like devices that will fill the gap ...

In-A-Minute Household Tech Protectors

GeekSugar comes to the rescue of frantic chicken-with-its-head-cut-off busybodies everywhere with a tip to store your laptop in a pillowcase before you jet out of the house to prevent scratches. While...

Philips Xenium Flip Phone: The Best of Both Worlds?

When I first started using cell phones, I always enjoyed the clamshell or flip format. I found these types of phones very useful and cool because you could answer and end a call just by opening the fl...

Modu: The Incredible Modular Phone

It's kind of obscene at the amount of waste that we generate with our gadgets. Every year or two, we change cell phones, computers, laptops, MP3 players, and more. The trouble is that there isn't much...

Look! The 1983 Iphone! Design Ahead of its Time

If you thought that the iPhone concept was something really recent, you're going to be really surprised! You'd think that the concept was pretty recent, since the original iPhone came out in 2007. How...

The Dream Iphone Pro: The Ultimate Cell Phone?

Ever since the iPhone came out, cell phone manufacturers have been trying to come up with a viable competitor. Until now, the verdict isn't out. It's agreed that the Apple iPhone interface and form fa...

Solar Powered Cell Phones: Sustainable Phones for the Future?

Until solar panels are harnessing a lot more power out of the sun, electricity will always be a precious commodity. Solar energy is a way to take things out of the hands of the Man and back into yours...

Hot or Not? Skinning Your Electronics

Like body tattoos dating back to Eurasian practices around the 5th millennium BC, people will always have the human urge to express themselves in such a mass consumer culture. Luckily, since gadgets t...

Scandiphone Looks as Cool as It Sounds

Obviously the trend in America is heading towards people abandoning their landlines in favor of an exclusively mobile home. It's pretty much a given with the younger generation that nobody has landlin...

"Unknown" Callers Will Be a Thing of the Past With This Free Service

Funny how things all happen at once. I was just having a conversation with a friend yesterday about always answering phone numbers I don't recognize and "Unknown Caller" blocked numbers. I figure that...

Mozilla Phone: The Ultimate Phone

It looks like Crackberry addicts are going to get their perfect phone. It combines OLED keys, like the ones on the ultimate keyboard from Art Lebedev, the Optimus, and a Blackberry. The designs are st...

How To: Skip Automated Phone Menu Systems

We're already phone-averse as it is (we're rabid call screeners and make an effort to stay off the phone as much as possible; talking in person or IM/email is our mode of communication of choice). But...

IDAPT Charger Makes Wires Dissappear

If Unplggd was a superhero—perhaps we'll call him The Unplggd Avenger—his platform would be to rid the world's homes of ugly tech and his only weakness, his Kryptonite we should say, would...

LG Video Phone Watch: Your Own Dick Tracy Watch

You know that you've always wanted one. A watch to do all things, from being your telephone to being your own TV. Well LG has decided to make this myth a reality. It's been tried before, but for once,...

Zero Concept Phone: A Mix Between an OLED Screen and a Phone

We always enjoy new striking phone designs. It's thanks to these concepts that the actual technology and designs evolve. What would a holographic display screen on a phone look like? Would there just ...

Dial My Calls: Properly Used or Abused at Holidays?

We can see the need for a service like Dial My Calls. It's a free online application that lets you record a message and automatically dial out and play the message to up to 25 people. A great tool for...

Ooma: One Time Fee VOIP Service

There are a multitude of VOIP systems out there. It's hard to make a choice. Ooma was launched last year and is a one-time fee VOIP service that actually has a really good looking handset. Plus there ...