Apartment Therapy Tagged: screen

How Picky Should You Be About LCD Tech Specs?

When you're shopping for a new LCD screen for the media room, you'll have numbers flying at you left and right. If you're the average consumer and have no idea what a pixel response time is, you'll pr...

Glasses for Screen Addicts Force You to Blink

I like to call 'em "Guitar Hero Eyes." It's that feeling you get when you focus your eyes on a complicated screen for too long. It always happens to me watching those colored notes slide down the LCD ...

Wacom Adds Multi-Touch to Bamboo Tablets

Gesture enthusiasts rejoice! Multi-touch support has finally hit the Wacom Bamboo line (as seen in Gregory's home office tour), allowing you to pair up your artistic talents with a huge touch-pad for ...

Newest Cordless Phone Trend: LCD Screens?

While linking your cordless phone to your cell is cool and all, what about adding a 7" LCD touchscreen? Mix in a bunch of nifty functions and voila - instant industry revamp! ...Or is it?...

Distilled Water is Best to Clean LCD Screens

No fancy and expensive chemicals, no crazy contraptions. This LCD-screen cleaning method is all about the right (natural) materials, a clean cloth and great technique......

Look! Fireplace in a Home Theater

Fireplaces are usually seen as obstacles to those movie and tech buffs who are jonesing for a serious theater setup. The hearth of the home is usually just in the way when you're trying to mount a 62-...

Look! Kid's Gaming Screen in the Ceiling

When we asked you "What's the Appropriate TV for a Kid's Room?," the answer was a loud-and-clear N-O. Most of you, despite growing up with TVs in your rooms, elected that your kids shouldn't have thei...

Toss the Duster: TVClean Rolls It Off Your Screen

I must be a dust magnet. Whether it's the black surface of my stove, the shelves on my espresso bookshelf or the screen on my TV, I seem to always attract massive amounts of dust. It requires constant...

Inspiration: Don't Get Stuck in a Screen

We all spend a lot of time and probably a lot of money making our desks look great. After all—whether your primary workspace is at home or in an office building—you've got to stare at it f...

Look! Mis-Matched Dual Monitor Screens

In the past, our focus has been on making sure you have continuous, or at least matching, desktop backgrounds on the screens of your dual-monitor setup. But we spotted this image on Flickr and love ho...

Color-Shift Particles: The Future of Outdoor Displays

The outdoor home theater of the future is going to be super-high-tech if this new display technology catches on: Tiny nanoparticles that shift colors in response to external changing magnetic fields. ...

More PC Desktop Space on Less Real Desktop Space

Life's better with multiple monitors. It's just a fact. You get tons of extra space to spread out toolbars and open up pages. But the trade off is that as you gain more virtual desktop space by adding...

The First Thing to Do When You Get your New HDTV Home

If you've recently saved up some cash (or crunched a little closer to your credit card's limit) and finally bought that brand new HDTV you've been lusting after, you might be a little confused as to w...

Good Questions: How Do I Clean My HDTV Screen?

Hey Unplggd, This may seem like a silly question, but I really need a cheap way to clean my super dusty HDTV LCD screen without damaging the matte surface. Any thoughts? -Inoj...

Inspiration: Sesame Streets' Bert-Inspired Home Tech

Sesame Street comes as a strange place to find ideas for your home, but strangely enough, blogger Sims found Bert as his main source of inspiration to model his home into an optimal space designed to ...

Bookshelf By Day, Wicked Projection Theater By Night

Pottery Barn, PB Teen and their endless ability to work tech-friendly solutions into their classicly stylish and versatile furniture is the stuff that Unplggd dreams are made of. It's not rare to see ...

New Laptop Screens to Cut Battery Use in Half

When One Laptop Per Child was announced it was hard to know whether or not the technological advances from the non-profit would be used outside the struggling countries they were developed for. If yo...

Apple Notebook Logo Running as a Second Screen

That glowing Apple logo that's been a part of Apple's line of notebooks since the late 1990s has become the object of modders' affections. Whether it's using an old iBook and the glimmering logo as a ...

Hole-In-Stomach Halloween Costume Gets Tech Assist

So its a little early for Halloween, but when a costume this clever can be constructed with just a little tech know-how, we'd be fools not to pass it along. Flickr user evanbooth appears to have been ...

Itching For Dual Displays On Laptops?

It seems that a lot of people have been going gaga over the dual displays of the new Lenovo W700DS. That is one amazing laptop, because it features a built-in digitizer, a full Qwerty keyboard and a s...

No Need For a Tanning Bed Anymore...

This might be more applicable to the summer months when everyone's not buried under mountains of snow, but here it goes: Everyday, you make the unconscious (or maybe conscious) choice to sit inside an...

Laptop Screen Faceoff: The Results May Surprise You

While the PC vs. Apple fanboy war may not end for quite some time, there is one thing available for a non-biased (well, less biased at least) and that's the quality of the monitors that ship out with ...

The Myth of Width: Is Bigger Always Better?
We're Talking About Computer Monitors Here, People

In this age where everyone is trying to stretch their dollar bills, rarely do we find ourselves saying, "No, I don't need that much." We want more space, more food and more time, even though we know i...

How to: Fix Hot, Dead or Stuck Pixels on Your Screen

My deep thought for the day: You are forced to acquire new knowledge and skills when something unfamiliar goes terribly wrong. I love tech, but I don't know the first thing about the pixels on my scre...

Uni Wristwatch is Customizeable—with Software!

Typographers rejoice! There is a watch for even the most font-obsessed among you. It's screen is essentially a tabula rasa—clean slate— for you to play upon with your very own ideas of col...

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