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This Laptop Essentials Kit is Your New Travel Buddy

Maybe you're traveling for business. Maybe you're traveling for pleasure but you just gotta take an entire tech arsenal with you to keep tabs on all the happenings back at home. Either way this laptop...

HazelMail.com: Turn Vacation Photos into Postcards

There's something wickedly fun in sending friends completely inappropriate postcards while traveling. You can now skip the tourist trap offerings of inane and tacky photograph postcards for...your own...

Roundup: 5 Home Tech Items We're Itching To Play With

While we know that keeping our belongings to a minimum is a big step in the battle against clutter, there's still some home tech gadgets we're oh so curious about. Usually, they're things we've su...

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 ...

What Are Your Tech Travel Neccesities?

July is travel month at Unplggd and I'm happy to tell you that I'm leaving for Boston in the morning and spent last night packing. In an effort to save some cash (read: I'm broke), I decided not to ch...

Using an Ikea Strainer to Boost WiFi While Traveling

When you are traveling in other countries, you become reliant on free WiFi hotspots. No one wants to use their credit card to get access to the internet. Since multiple WiFi networks can permeate the ...

Packwhiz: Online Tool Helps Pack a Home-Away-From-Home

For techies like us here at Unplggd, we know that there are plenty of tools and tech tips that can help make your house (or apartment, or loft, or rented garage studio...) a home. But what about using...

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...

Camouflaging Your Camera As an Anti-Theft Measure

We've seen this idea most prevalent amongst urban cyclists afraid of losing their two wheeled transportation to would-be thieves: camouflaging their expensive bikes with duct tape, haphazard paint job...

ClickFree Traveler: The Credit Card Backup Solution

In this data laden world, whenever our hard drives crash, we are in deep trouble. We can easily lose months of data without really thinking about it. Once it's gone, there is a good chance that you wo...

Hide Your USB Drive next to Your Toothbrush and Soap

Sensitive information? Why don't you try hiding it to camouflage with products for sensitive teeth? Yep, that's right... hide your USB drive into a travel-sized toothpaste tube. We've seen flash drive...

JetLag Travel Alarm Clock Is a Small Space Dweller's Dream

Don't know exactly what it is, but we love the look of this tiny, plain dual-display digital clock. Originally meant for traveling, we think this tiny alarm clock could be just as useful to non-flying...

Cooler Light: Why Didn't I Think of That?

Most people don't find themselves digging through dark coolers for a tall, frosty brew very often, which is why most of the world has never known this particular product existed. But we can imagine is...

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'...

Escape With iMac-Equipped Hotel Rooms

Techies have a reputation for being homebodys. But we know that Unplggd readers are not the round-the-clock WOW-playing geeks that come to mind. You guys like to get out more. But even when you're on ...

Tom Bihn's Checkpoint Flyer: TSA-Approved laptop bag

Since the TSA has doled out some new guidelines for checkpoint-friendly laptop bags, laptop bag manufacturers are busy coming up with models for frequent flyers, who abhor taking out their laptops at ...