Survey: Do You Refrigerate or Freeze Your Batteries?
Urban legend or myth? We open it up to you guys to argue the benefits (if any) of tossing in your D-cells and triple A's to the fridge to "hold its charge..." ...
Posts tagged “storage”
Tech Tip: Use a Plastic Card to Organize Cables
So you've arranged your desk so that all your necessary peripheral cords and cables are mostly hidden. You've made sure just the business ends of your iPod and digital camera cords are peeking out. Th...
Inspiration: Sugar Crates for Toy & Media Storage
Old sugar crates picked up from the flea market receive the caster treatment, turning them into a perfect storage solution for toys, books, DVDs, remote controllers, and more. Heck, they might even wo...
Flickr Find: DIY Built-In Kitchen Computer
Whether they're used for looking up recipes, pulling up cooking show clips on YouTube or just killing time on Twitter while you wait for the water to boil, we're seeing computers in the kitchen poppin...
Wiimotes Are at Home in Wii-Branded Cozies
One of the quickest and easiest ways to keep a gang of remotes from cluttering up the coffee table and looking tidy instead is to simply bundle them up into some kind of cozy. Whether it's a cloth bas...
Make Your Own Charging Pocket from a Shampoo Bottle
At home, we've got our cell phone's power cord "wired" (read: we taped it) behind the headboard, giving us just a little piece of the business end of the charger sitting on our pedestal nightstand. Bu...
Flickr Find: A Makeshift Landing Strip
We all want to have the perfect little landing strip. A convenient area by the doorway we use most with plenty of surfaces and enough storage to drop all of the day's burdens—your cell phone, iP...
Boynq's Pad2Go Compact Travel Mousepad
Whether your travels during Unplggd's travel month take you to Spain or just to your local Starbucks, there's no reason to leave the comforts of home behind. Just like you'd bring along your favorite ...
Inspiration: Basic Shelves as an Entertainment Center
More often seen hidden in walk-in closets and pantries, your cookie-cutter Elfa-style wall-mounted shelves could find a new use in a high-traffic and high-style room, if you know how to accessorize......
Sidecar Furniture TV Console by David Johnson
If there was one piece we could imagine ourselves actually wanting for our own apartment that we during our parade of the Dwell on Design exhibition this past weekend, it would have to be this TV Cons...
Good Question: Affordable Computer Backup Storage
Unplggd reader Jake had this following question: I am a college student, majoring in game programming. Currently, I've been running out of hard drive space. I recently bought a 1tb internal hard dr...
External Support: Western Digital's My Book Enters the World of Big RAID Storage
If you haven't experienced a hard drive failure in your lifetime, let's just say - in the eloquent worlds of our IT team - you will. And because file storage comes so cheaply these days, there's reall...
Final Frame: Using Old TV's for Storage and Display
Love this idea from Casa Korea of taking old television and computer monitors and using them for display, storage and even a fish bowl! ...
Use Rain Gutters to Wrangle Under-Desk Wires
BEFORE. Click here for the "after" shot.Above is the "before" shot of Lifehacker reader Seandavid010's tangled mess of a desk. But he got a new desk and a new outlook on cord management when he decide...
Velvet Media Bags Are Great For Storage, Travel
We give plenty of thought to storing all of our tech parts and pieces, coming up with easy and inexpensive solutions like repurposing old photo storage boxes. But it's nice to see that we're not alone...
Deskology DESKSET Made to Match Macs
Apple's come a long way. Once a company known for their designer-friendly yet boxy, beige and black-and-white desktop computers, they now dominate technology design and set the trends for everyone els...
Table 180 Tucks All Your Desk Neccessities Away
The key to cutting down on visual clutter in a home is to have a place for everything and to keep everything in it's place. There could not be a more fitting motto for this desk concept. With Table 18...
Acerbis Integrated Projection Screen Unveils Up!
The common solution for a projection screen setup is to either install a pull-down screen (like the one we have in our apartment) or to place or paint a permanent surface to project a picture onto. An...
Wii Balance Board Stand and Charging Station from Mad Catz
Wii Fit, with it's motion-sensing balance board, is a home exercising force to be reckoned with. It's a perfect rainy day solution for active people in small, cool spaces who most certainly don't have...
Flickr Find: A Cluttered Office Done Right
We all want to have those sleek, minimalistic workspaces. An elegant task table with nothing but a power-cord-less laptop, a simple flower arrangement and a cup of coffee weighing it down. But lets fa...
Zoning Off the Home Office From the Home Entertainment
There was this great post over at Apartment Therapy DC about using bookshelves as partitions to create "zones" within an open space. This is especially a great idea for those of us who have to work ri...
USB Couches Provide a Living Room Network
Are your couches geeky enough? The “USB Sofa” is a concept created for OFFF Lisbon 2008, the International Festival for the Post Digital Creation Culture, which looks and functions like a leather ...
SUCK UK's Pre-Grunged CD & Vinyl Dividers
LPs are on their way back and seeing increasing sales over the past few years, thanks in no small part to big artists releasing content exclusively on vinyl. If you're starting a collection, or you're...
The Hidden Cabinet Home Office Offers a Place For Everything
What initially looks like your typical home office wall cabinetry reveals itself to offer a space saving and hidden home office with storage galore......
Close-Up: Scott's Ultimate Man Cave
click for more picsPerhaps we've seen more stylish ones before, but we're going to go out on a limb and call Scott A. Pope's Man Cave entertainment room the ultimate den of tech delights for the sheer...
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