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Posts tagged “space”

Retro Game Room Mashups: Digital Foosball!

What happens when you take one of the coolest things you can throw into your home - the foosball table, make it completely electronic, and toss in an awesome space theme? The digital Space Foosball Ta...

Roundup: 10 Home Offices We Could Call Home

Home offices are so personal, that when viewing spaces belonging to others, it's not uncommon to say, "Neat, but I'd have to change _____ & _____." We've searched high and low and found 10 great wo...

Some Tips to Get a Little Extra TiVo Space

Is your nasty habit of TiVo'ing everything under the sun racking up a gross amount of entertainment debt? Here's some tips to make sure that you're optimizing your TiVo space......

Living with Roomates: Proper Tech Etiquette?

In communal living, life tends to move at a different beat. You've got to worry about those meddling kids downstairs trying to hack into your wireless. However, that should be the least of your worrie...

Soyuz Recliner Simulates Launch Into Space

So it might not be so practical, but for space enthusiasts, this chair could be the centerpiece of a wonderful living room. Part of London's Royal College of Art's Design Interactions Show 2009, the ...

Do You Ever Think About the View From Your Desk?

Most often when laying out furniture in a new space, you keep in mind three main considerations: fit, aesthetics and flow. That is: Where stuff can go, how stuff looks and how you're supposed to walk ...

Stardust Light Furniture: Like it or Hate it

If you had furniture that could light-up like a spaceship, would that make you happy? Is light something that could be used in furniture without being too awkward? Those are the questions that the Sta...

ECO-Heater can Match Every (And We Mean Every) Decor

We've seen a host of really great-looking space heaters recently. The Huggable Heater, baseboard radiator and (oh-so-beautiful!) Puzzle Radiator are really proving that necessary household appliances ...

Asteroid PC Case Mod

Now, obviously this kind of design doesn't "go" with a lot of traditional decorating styles, but the project serves as a convenient reminder during DIY month that a little ingenuity goes a long way. W...

Vertebrae Vertical Bathroom: How's That For Small Cool?

Being a perpetual renter who thrives in the city life, we don't have much room to be picky about our bathroom amenities. We've even seen (and considered—eek!) a unit where the bathroom opened ri...

A Pinball Machine for Small, Cool Spaces

Classic arcade console games are the perfect addition to a basement playroom or bachelor pad. But what about those of us who love a round of pinball but don't have the space for a full-on pinball mach...

MIMO 7" Monitor Adds Extra Space For Extras

Extra desktop space is, simply but, better. Much like the old adage of how nobody couldn't use more money, we here at Unplggd believe that nobody couldn't use more monitors. For all of the solutions t...

The Steampunk... Office?

You know how when a trend gets tired you can start to pinpoint exactly where it went wrong? Well, we'd like to declare Steampunk dead right here, but we're pretty sure this won't be the end. This ste...

An External Hard Drive Hanging On For Dear Life

Having an external hard drive to back up all your data is a good idea. You never know what could happen at any moment. But it's tougher for us laptop-wielding nomads. With such a portable computer, we...

Blogging MTV's The Hills: FIDM's Computer Lab

Love it or hate it, you'd have to be living under a rock to not know about the hit MTV show, The Hills. Following Lauren Conrad, a fashion design student and reality TV royalty, the show hits on some ...

Flickr Finds: Peter's Small But Organized Space

Peter Scarrlatt's space might be small, but he's managed to fit everything into it, which we found awesome. He's got space for a 32" HDTV, desk, bed, cupboard, video game consoles, computer and other ...

Home Office All-In-One: All in One Tiny Cabinet

When space in your place is at a premium (We're lookin' at you, NYC Unplggers!), it can be really tough to edit down and decide which "rooms" you do and don't need to make space for. When need some ro...

Space Invader Flexible Keyboard

There is something about retro gaming that appeals to the inner-geek in all of us. Who hasn't played a game of Tetris on their mobile? The cult old school game Space Invaders has finally got a keyboar...