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Mint's Wireless Speakers Enable A Multi-Room Setup

At Unplggd, we're always trying to go wireless. It's not easy, but more and more systems are appearing on the market to cater to wireless fanatics like us. Let's be honest, unless you're willing to dr...

Wireless USB Digital Microscope Gives You a Closeup View

Here's a USB accessory that is somewhat a specialized tool, but one with wide appeal. Because who wouldn't mind investigating throughout the house with your own wireless USB microscope to peer from 20...

SimpliSafe Home Security System
Unplggd Test Lab

Product: SimpliSafe Security System Price: $249.99/$299.99 Rating: Strong Recommend* For apartment dwellers, home security usually means a couple of strong deadbolt locks, perhaps a mean German She...

Logitech Introduces Notebook Kit MK605

Logitech's newest offering caters to the needs of laptop users who like to settle into a desktop experience regularly. The Notebook Kit MK605 is an all-in-one setup with a pivoting riser for better er...

Livio & NPR Team Up on the Wi-Fi Radio Front

National Public Radio fan, are you? We don't blame you. Those guys on Car Talk sure know how to spin a bad situation into a good one. Kind of like turning Livio's dedicated streaming Pandora box into ...

Sonos Releases Lower Priced Home Streaming Unit

Despite being a young company, Sonos has built a following for being a premier solution for wirelessly streaming music from your PC to all of the rooms in your house. But they've always been pricey li...

Powermat: Wireless Charging is Bleepin' Here

Say goodbye to charging cord forests. If those recently released viral commercials haven't grabbed your attention yet, you too might find yourself exchanging some surprising f-bombs when you've taken ...

Use Superbooster to Turn Any USB Device Wireless

This is another way of getting some of your peripherals wireless. This is just a small device in which you can plug a USB peripheral so that it can wirelessly connect to your home network. It is worth...

Money Saving Tip: Share WiFi With Neighbors

A fast internet connection is a pricey expense, but one we can't imagine living without. The great thing about it is that no matter how many people share it, it's never 'used up'......

Cheap Wireless Stereo with iPhone App & Vintage Speakers

At Unplggd, we enjoy everything wireless. However, anything that's become wireless usually tends to cost more. With a budget in mind, we set ourselves the task to creating a neat wireless stereo syste...

Yamaha's Wireless iPod and iPhone Cradle

At Unplggd, we really like wireless stuff. Getting rid of the messy wires is part of our mission. That's why we were interested to find out that Yamaha's latest cradle is wireless. Sounds pretty cool,...

Rejoice! True Wireless Power is Here

Ready for some news that'll really blow your mind? Sony's pretty much done what many of us at Unplggd have been dreaming about all these years; the ability to charge and power your electronics through...

How to Build a Closet Wireless Entertainment Unit?
Good Questions

Q - Does anyone have a recommendation on a (cheap) way to put my electronics (dvr, dvd, surround sound system, printer) in a closet and use infrared receiver/wireless to control them? Searched on AT s...

Wireless Infrared Driveway Patrol Alarm

Yeah, yeah, we know...it's a total As Seen on TV gadget, but this infrared wireless alert system isn't a half bad low cost security idea, since there's no need for any wiring or hard to manage system....

Vue Personal Video Network: Easy Home Security

It's always prudent to install some kind of security system in your pad or home. It's not just for rich or people with big houses. It's for everyone. For example, if you've got pets and you want to ch...

Kensington Joins Docking Station Boat, Sans Wireless

If Toshiba's Wireless U docking station seemed a bit out of reach at $300, perhaps Kensington HD Universal Docking Station may sound like a better fit for all you budget desktop conversion aficionados...

HP DreamScreens

We still have paper photographs displayed in frames around the house, but the urge to declutter has us looking seriously at digital options to reduce the number of frames without retiring any of the...

Connect Work and Home Machines with iTwin

Why is everything branded with an 'i' these days? We don't know. But what the iTwin lacks in naming creativity, it more than makes up for in usefulness. Think of it as the remote desktop taken to anot...

Belkin's Home Base Gives WiFi to All Your Peripherals

Print, share, and back up files wirelessly? Sound familiar? But wait, what is this we hear about a $130 price tag? Perhaps Belkin may have a winner on their hands. But how does it compare to Apple's A...

Survey: Would You Buy a 3G Netbook?

With Nokia's recent 3G netbook spy shots leaked to the millions over at Engadget, millions out there are drooling all over their current keyboards and probably simply thinking to themselves, "Why hasn...

Final Frame: Music Cage

Nendo's Music Cage is "a wireless speaker that allows you to listen to music from a computer or Bluetooth-enabled mobile phone without cluttering a room with wires or cords. Music-cage can attach to a...

Re(al)view: Audioengine W1 Wireless Stereo Adapter

Last week, we wrote about Audioengine's W1 wireless audio streaming solution. Boasting a software-less install, intuitive plug-n-play interface, and CD-quality sound up to 100 feet, we were more than ...

PetSafe: Wireless Fence to Perimeter Train Your Pets

If you have a large yard and you want to make sure that your pets don't just scamper away, it's a good idea to use an electronic fence. It saves you from building a high fence and these types of techn...

Music Cage Speaker: Stylish With No Birds But Wireless

Most speakers tend to look similar. If you don't want a big black box, you usually have to spend more money on getting higher-end speakers. Thankfully, there are some newer speakers that are cheaper a...

Audioengine W1: Enter Stereophonic Wireless Sound

The boys at Audioengine, makers of the acclaimed A2 speakers we're so bonkers about, claim to have a much more streamlined solution than using Apple's Airport Express for audio streaming. Software-l...