Harc Lee's Time-Telling Wall Switch
Designed by New York's own designer Harc Lee, the Time Switch acts much differently than we originally had in mind. Instead of integrating a clock into a wall switch, it is catered more towards design...
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TV TrickleSaver Saves You Time ...and Energy!
We try and turn off all the unneccesary power-suckers in a standard routine every time we leave the house. The lights go off, the computer goes into sleep mode and the TV, DVD player and cable box eac...
Look! The Incredible Portable Charging Mat
A typical home will have a bunch of devices that need charging every single day. We know that most of you just spread them around, splitting up wall sockets with power strips and getting the most out ...
Ultra Lead Travel Plugs: Portable Power Gets Modular
Catering to the LEGO builders in all of us, Georges Moanack - a recent grad from the Royal College of Art - has designed Ultra Lead - has created an electrical management system that allows electrical...
Look! Hide Unseemly Wall Sockets!
Even though we might think that most places don't have enough wall sockets, there are some houses and pads that just have sockets at the worst possible places. There wasn't much that you could do with...
Kikkerland Radio Stays Green, Utilizes Man and the Sun
Have you started your backyard home theater project yet? No? Well, maybe you can make up for it by at least bringing some music to your upcoming party this weekend. Better yet, make a definitive "gree...
Solar Umbrella: Charges Your Gadgets While You're Having Fun in the Sun
Imagine all those great summer afternoons or weekends that are spent in your garden relaxing, wouldn't it be great if they'd find a way to harness all that solar energy? The trouble with solar panels ...
Dotz Organizers: Keeping Your Wires Clean
How do the cables under your desk look like? Or the cables and plugs near outlets? If you are like us, it's probably very messy. It's hard to keep things organized under your desk and near power plugs...
Wattcher Electrical Use Monitor: Save Money Easily
Times are tough and we are always looking for ways to save more money. There are a bunch of devices on the market that promise to help you do this by cutting down on wasted electricity. Most of use le...
Side Wired Desk: Saves You the Trouble of Bending Over
We all have problems with wires. In a perfect world, everything would be unplggd, but since we can't have that yet, we have to find other solutions to manage the mess of wires that are found underneat...
Re(al)view: Powersquid Surge Protector Calamari Edition
This past weekend, we went ahead and got all calamari-ed out with a bunch of Powersquid Surge Protectors all of our entertainment system, networking, and desktop equipment. The end result? Well, let's...
Look! Solar Panels Powered Home Theater
Seeing as one of the most power-vampiric entities is your from the home theater system, the team at Home Theater Specialists of America (HTSA) has done the good deed and created a system that's the fi...
Classy Digital Switchplates by SDesignUnit
Whether you prefer to keep it Cartesian or having some Sailor Moon infusion, it never hurts to get a little creative when it comes to adding a bit of character one of the most overlooked fixtures in o...
eLite: The Easy Energy Monitor That Will Save You Money
Times are tough, pretty much everywhere. The recession is hitting most businesses hard. That means that energy monitors that will save you money are getting that much more interesting. Why waste money...
Modular Power Sockets: Mix and Match to Create Your Perfect Power Strip
I think that everyone has the same problem when it comes to power strips. Usually, you never have enough plugs for everything that you want to plug in. So you buy another one to plug it into the first...
WattBlocks: Like a Wooden Stake for Your Gadget Vampires
One of the easiest ways to save energy—for your planet and your wallet—is to cut power completely to those gizmos that use "standby power" even when they're turned off. Look at your DVD pl...
Future Shelving: A Great Way To Charge Your Gadgets
Shelving hasn't changed much in the last 50 years. There's nothing more boring than picking up a pair of shelves from Ikea and putting them in your pad. Most of the time, you have to mix and match and...
Solar Blinds: Stores Power By Day, Shines By Night
Here's a "bright" idea if we've ever seen one: Take your standard Venetian blinds, attach some thin solar panels on them, and let them store energy on batteries during the daytime and allow them to gr...
Two Ways of Cutting Down on Cable Mess
We all have problems with cables. The problem is that there are just so many of them, it's so easy to get the infamous cable octopus and not know how to take them apart anymore. It's a mess, and the o...
Pee-Powered Batteries Really Exist
So... we don't often talk about urine on Unplggd—in fact, the only other time we've posted anything concerning urine was a post about living on the moon that mentioned recycling sweat and urine ...
Kinesis K2: Using the Wind and Sun to Power Your Devices
We all know that using the sun and wind is a great way to create electricity. It's green and pure. The problem is that there aren't that many devices out that use solar and wind power. Thankfully, thi...
iGo Green Technology Surge Protector: A Great Way to Save Money on Power
Power strips are extremely important for any home office or home theater. They allow you to manage power efficiently. However, most power strips aren't equivalent. Some of them allow you just to do th...
Where Your Laptop's Power Goes
When you're almost out of juice and reach for your laptop's power cord, you just see two things: your power-draining thousand-dollar hunk of metal (couldn't it keep a three-hour charge last year?) and...
Where to Find Power When You're Away from Home
While many of us may not want to leave the house again now that the traveling rush of the holidays are over, others still need to fly to and fro for work, weddings, or a much needed vacation from the...
Solar Paper Lantern Makes Green Look Good
Covering something in solar panels, whether it's a house or some sunglasses, doesn't particularly make it look very attractive. I mean, we're talking about silicon and glass here, not leather and lace...
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