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Sony Shows Off Flexible and Ultra Thin OLED Displays

Japan's CEATEC is really a great place to find some up and coming home tech. It's really cool to see what is going to be possible, especially with OLED displays. ...

Nearness the Wireless Rube Goldberg Machine

Like a modern day, high-tech version of those contraptions from Tom & Jerry cartoons, this one using RFID signals for non-tactile interaction. Watch it for a late afternoon, early evening break....

Strukt Design Studio's Digital Wallpaper

More projector madness, this time a wall display created for the office of Büro Hirzberger using vvvv, a real time video toolkit and a digital projector to create a full motion digital wallpaper that...

iPod Nano Upgraded With Video, Radio, Pedometer and Mic

The star of the show today wasn't the iPod Touch as many expected (or AppleTV as we personally hoped), but the Marsha Brady of the Apple iPod family, the iPod Nano. The svelte player saw a huge upgrad...

Brendan's DIY Hide the Wires Project Video

One of our former bloggers over from Re-Nest sent us this video of an audition tape for a DIY network show (it's about 10 minutes long, so you might fast forward to about :56 to skip the intro spiel...

How to Repurpose Your Analog TV

Thanks to the DTV switchover which occurred this month, there are a bunch of analog TVs flooding the thrift stores and garage sales. The question is what do to with all of these, especially if you hav...

News: YouTube XL is Optimized for Your TV

After having spent almost six months in beta-testing, YouTube XL is finally available. What is YouTube XL? It's a version that will fit well onto your TV. It's also supposed to stream to all of those ...

Transparent-Looking PMP Player: You Can Use it As a Mirror

The last PMP that we had was an Archos. We used it on and off, but never as an MP3 player. The thing was just too heavy. We stopped using it when the battery blew up. The PMP market has been growing, ...

Friday Funnies: The AWESOME Sound of Music Vest

We don't know about you, but we're ready to order!...

Lego iMac G4 Junior has a Real LCD Screen

click for more picsYeah, it's always cool to see Lego brick mock-ups of our favorite home office tech and supplies—like a stapler, desk, lamp, phone and computer—but this little guy from B...

1950's Facebook: The Electric Friendship Generator

Yeah, we lol'd. This mid-century vintage-styled video comes courtesy of relationship advice site YourTango to teach all of us good Facebook etiquette. Start watching, and you'll find out that Alice an...

What's Happening This Instant in the Tech World

Commercials are the bane of our TV-addicted existence. They stink so much to watch that somebody had to go and invent TiVo so we didn't have to sit through one more rugged SUV bouncing over rocky terr...

Catch Nosy Nellie in the Act Snooping on Your Machine

Do you have a sneaking suspicion that somebody is snooping on your computer? Whether it's your girlfriend, boyfriend, mom or kids that you think are hopping onto your machine and tracking your none-of...

Look! Mario is Wandering the Windy City

In the case of Mario, we love seeing the little 8-bit guy out of the video game he calls home and into our real world in the form of pushpin Super Mario wall art, Super Mario castle brick benches and ...

Yet Another Flickr Addiction: Flickr Clock

As if we weren't addicted to Flickr already enough. Flickr Clock is a visualization project and group pool that displays Flickr video based upon the approximate time it was shot. You can submit your v...

Toshiba: Luminous OLED Wallpaper On The Way?

It looks like the future of home tech and entertainment might just come to light (pun intended) sooner than we expected. Toshiba, along with GE (General Electric) and Sony, have all been hard at work ...

Final Frame: An iPhone Everything Future

The Purchase Brothers' teases us all with a vision of what the iPhone be 4 years from now. It's completely overdone, full of hype, and provides more questions than answers. But still, it does get us t...

Keep Up with the Inauguration Ceremonies from Anywhere

If you can't be in D.C. for the big day tomorrow—that ominous event that everyone's been talking about for years: the inauguration of Bush's successor, our 44th president—rest assured that...

Get the Most NetFlix for Your Money With This Web App

We don't have to remind you that times are tough. We're all cutting corners where we deem fit to do so. If you're one of many that has canceled your cable service in favor of using web-based TV stream...

Stop Dropping Your iPhone, Get the Gaming Grip Case

As awesome as they are, we don't have a Nintendo DS or any portable gaming device that we carry around with us religiously. And we'd have to think that some, if not most, of the adult world is with us...

Play NES, SNES and Sega Genesis Games On One Console

Time to clean out the attic! If you pack rats can get your hands on the boxes you packed, sealed and labeled with "GAME CARTRIDGES" back in 1994, you'll be happy to know that you can now play all of y...

Do You Leave Your Gaming Console On All the Time?

We'd like to think that most of the readers of the Apartment Therapy family of sites (That's all those links resting at the very top of this page) are in favor of making green choices in their life. S...

X-Biking: Like Wii Fit, But Xtreme

Having the willpower to exercise is not always easy, otherwise everybody would be perfectly toned and tight and Krispy Kreme doughnuts would sell through the roof. But playing video games? Well any ha...

The Future of Cell Phone Communication?

David O'Reilly, an animator and filmmaker, has created an iPhone application, iHologram, that acts as if it were a hologram. For now, it's just an animation of a little running cartoon cat from a film...

Top 10 Most Influential Video Games of the 1980s

The '80s were without a doubt the most inlfluential time for the technology the know and love today, and that's especially true for video games, as graphics and computing power increased to the point ...