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Presents for A Geek: Motherboard Gifts

Rachel over Re-Nest found various recycled motherboard circuit board items that have been redesigned for a new life as decorative elements around the home, ranging from votive lights, to coasters, clo...

Re-Nest's 14 Ways to Warm Up Without the Heat On

Here at Unplggd, we love to talk about gadgets and gizmos and shiny things that go "whirrrrrr" in the night. But we're also about helping you save electricity......

Pixelated Artwork Made from Paint Chips

Nite saw our recent how-to post on creating a pixelated painting and it inspired an email to us with some photos of an amazing bit of DIY artwork that he made from paint chips......

Survey: Using Technology to Go Green?

There’s been a lot of talk about whether new gadgets, such as the Kindle, will change the way we live. Our household has always been early adopters of the ‘latest’ technology: iPods, iPhones, d...

Solé Integrated Solar Tiles by SRS Energy

This is the future: solar-energy-capturing products that look just like their non-solar counterparts. The Solé Power Tile is an electricity-generating tile that can be installed alongside traditional...

Holmes True-HEPA Allergen Remover
In The Test Lab

Check out Stephanie's HEPA air purifier review over at Re-Nest (we had this same model prior to upgrading to a larger unit): We've posted about air purifiers before, but we'd never actually owned one...

Green Concept: Magic Cube by Kai Yu

Now, the combination of an alarm clock with a radio is nothing to get too excited about. But the combination of an alarm clock, radio, lamp, and charger (that is solar powered) is something we wouldn'...

Digi-Garden Hack: Using Broken dSLRs as Plant Pots

Every so often, we find ourselves regrettably dropping our dSLRs into jacuzzis, down mountain slopes, or leaving them in the hands of babies - none of which results in a reversible outcome, as you mig...

Green Style: LED Luma Lamp by UM

If you saw the story in the NYTimes on Friday about the rise of LED lights, you know how powerful the promise is that these things hold. Above is a swanky new lamp that we spotted at Brooklyn Design...

Green Style: BDDW's Phila Audio Stereo Systems

Tyler Hays from BDDW has been experimenting more and more with analog audio systems combined with the style furniture he's known for: handmade, high quality ingredients and playful juxtapositions. M...

Hana-Akari Solar-Powered Lamp from Sony

There have been a couple of solar lamps floating around, but none this impressive. This prototype from Sony uses a new technology that mimick's photosynthesis using a new dye-sensitized solar cell, s...

Black & Decker's Thermal Leak Detector

There is nothing the least bit scientific about how we check for leaks in our own home. For example: It often feels cold near our windows -- we assume there is a leak. See what we mean? But what abou...

Is It Green? Motorola's Eco-Friendlier Cordless Phone

Motorola's new D10 and D11 cordless phones definitely have one thing going for them -- they're better looking than the cordless phones we grew up with. They're also, according to Motorola, greener t...