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Posts tagged “safe”

Do You Store Your Passwords in Your Home?

Ideally, passwords for online accounts should stay stored in one spot: Your brain. But as the most forgetful among us know (if you could see me, I'm raising my hand), it's hard to keep track of every ...

Remote Controlled Jack-O-Lantern Lights

What's Halloween without a Jack-O-Lantern? Safe from fires, that's what. To make your carved pumpkin creations much safer—and more high-tech, to boot!—replace the candle with a remote-cont...

The Gunnebo SecurePod

An honourable mention winner in this year's Red Dot Design 2009 competition, we don't think we've seen a home safe quite like this cartoonishly attractive SecurePod Safe. Made from rotationally mould...

Power Strip Diversion Safe

We're used to a power strip protecting our electronics from sudden power spikes and surges, But we've never heard of one that can protect our jewelry, small valuables and extra cash......

How to Keep That Laptop Locked Away from Nosy Roommates

So, you're moving into a new place with roommates. Even if your roommate seems nice, do you really trust him/her completely, with all of your belongings? We think that trust is earned and in a communa...

Make Your Vintage Tech Display Do Double Duty

We've been seeing a trend of using old tech as a kind of sculptural art piece. So if it's going to sit there taking up space, why not make it do double duty, like this vintage radio does for one Instr...

A Cup Holder Mounted Laptop Tray Saves Hundreds of Dollars

By no means do we encourage you to use your laptop while driving, but there are a lot of people out there who need to use their laptops in their cars. From our recent research on these traveling offic...

Keeping Your Eyes Healthy During a TV Marathon

Sometimes nothing's better than a Saturday morning, afternoon and night spent in front of the tube catching up on those intense TV drama plot lines and find out who's slapping who on VH1's Celebrealit...

Secure Lego Safe: Harder to Break Into Than You'd Think

When you think about where you're going to place your valuable and secure documents, it's pretty much expected that you'll buy a safe and put it up on a shelf in your closet somewhere. We've watched T...

8 Tips to Keep Your Laptop Safe On Holiday Travels

We're all sliding into the end of the year and making plans to drive, fly and ride on trains to visit family for Thanksgiving and the holidays. But before you pack your last scarf, make sure that you'...