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Sikker Wristbands For Safety

If you could lull your baby to sleep, take their temperature, listen in on what they're up to — all with the help from a little bracelet, would you go for it? The Sikker (Danish for safety) do...

7 Small Bathroom Appliances That Make Us Say WTF?

If anyone can appreciate a great use of technology in an unusual place, it would be us. We love seeing creative ways to make our lives easier and more entertaining through the advancements of techn...

7 More Corky Tech Ideas for the Home
Roundup

Watch yourselves, green addicts, this one might make your heart stop. While we recently fell in love with Corky, the scrolling, clicking, and movement-powered mouse made from cork, there's plenty mo...

Fabrics Get A Flexible Charge With Nanotubes

Once in awhile, a technological advancement comes along that has the ability to completely change the way we think about the world around us. Can you imagine sitting on the couch and having your l...

How To: Keep Technology Quiet at Night

The only thing that truly bothers us about technology is that fact that we hear and see it working all of the time. This includes ticking clocks, blinking router lights, and iPhone notifications late ...

The Beauty of White Tech
Inspiration

Not only do the interiors shot by Swedish photographer Ragnar Ómarsson kick some major butt, his lifestyle collection features great examples of ways to integrate white tech into your home (yes, this...

And the Rest of Twitter's New Office

Just a moment ago, Taryn reported on her favourite element from the new Twitter Headquarters. We wanted to follow up with rest of their new office (they moved just around the corner from their old ...

Are You a Tech Minimalist?
Survey

Last week we saw Gregory featured on the New York Times, where he spoke candidly about living minimally with tech (in his case, life sans the cellular). Though primarily due to a constrained budget at...

A Life Without Certain Technologies

Well, there I am...smack dab on the front of the Technology section of the New York Times site today. A few days ago I was interviewed by Times reporter Claire Miller about my cell phone-free lifestyl...

OS X Dashboard Widgets For the Home Cook

I've rounded up a collection of useful widgets for the home cook that uses a Mac. From measurement conversions to reminders, you're sure to find these useful. Best of all, they are free!...

Technicolor: Blue

As retro as red goes, blue still does it for me. Blue like the ocean, the bright skies, and the color of my first Nike kicks. Oh, how I loved those shoes. In honor of childhood memories and the good o...

Bonhams Auction of Technology Antiques

Renowned auction house, Bonhams will be auctioning 758 items that represent some of the most unique and fascinating historical examples of early technological devices (record players, burglar alarms...

The Braille Phone Concept

For those with family or friends who suffer from impaired vision or blindness, this could be the first step in encouragement for them to learn Braille, streamlining a familiar interface with surface f...

Future of Lighting: Super-Efficient OLED Lamps

We all know that LEDs are become more and more popular, thanks to their low-power needs and their brightness. Frankly, it's inevitable that LEDs will finally easily surpass traditional incandescent li...

Now We Feel Old!: "Things Your Kids May Never Know"

I was born in the 1980's. I'm hardly entering mid-life, let alone applying for my AARP card. But Wired has found a way to make my twenty-something years feel like a lifetime. The online magazine's tec...

What's the First Thing You Plug In After a Remodel?

We had a short discussion with a couple of friends last night over a few drinks. One of the topics that stuck with us is our heavy reliance on technology and the Internet, which becomes most apparent ...

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. ...

Air Writing: Using Your Cell Phone Like a Stylus

Tired of not being able to tweet or text while jogging or while you're otherwise busy? Have you decided that you wanted a more gesture-based form of input to your information world? Well, don't worry,...

More iPhone Apps for the Home Cook

Awhile back, we posted about iPhone apps for the home cook. Well, it's almost a year later, and the app market has grown by leaps and bounds, so we thought we'd round up some more fun and useful cooki...

The Incredible 2-in-1 Loo! Perfect for Men and Women

We can't remember the amount of times that we've heard people complain about the fact that the seat of the toilet was up and "someone" didn't put it down. It's almost always men who do this since they...

Geek Sugar's The Stylish Computers of Gossip Girl

You've got to love girly tech blog GeekSugar for their technological tie-ins with pop culture. GeekSugar took time to reflect on their year spent watching gorgeous and expensive Manhattan high school ...

Grohe's Digital Bathroom: Worth the Money?

Even though I take baths from time to time, I've always been a shower person. I take showers everyday and they are part of my morning routine. Usually, if I don't shower, I don't really wake up. Since...

Celsius: A Modular Refrigerator

We all have refrigerators. The trouble is that the basic design hasn't changed in about 100 years. Most of the fridges that I've had were pretty similar. They hide away food so that it doesn't go bad....

LG's Most Wanted Film Gadgets

Unplggd blogger Anthony put together his own list of what technology from movies we'd like to get our grubby little mits on in real life. Check it out if you haven't seen it already. But turns out, el...

Roundup: TVs In The Kitchen

Cozy or not, tech in the kitchen is so ubiquitous in our friends and families' homes that we figured, "Hey, why not just embrace it?" We've gathered a few ideas in case you're looking to toss a TV int...

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