It's rare to find two-prong outlets in homes these days. Landlords and home owners have slowly switched over to three-prong outlets as more and more devices and appliances need them to power up. Occasionally though, you move into a place that doesn't have a three-prong outlet where you need one, so how do you remedy the situation?
No, we're not going to tell you that your Xbox is rotting your brain and to go outside and read a book. But if a recent letter to the New England Journal of Medicine is to be believed, the super-active Nintendo Wii has caused enough injuries to name some of them.
The Birdbox converts the iPhone into a cuckoo clock theme alarm clock with snooze option, 4 different colour themes, and even charges up your device while you snore away.
Good headphones are absolutely needed if you are listening to your iPod or iPhone a lot. There are quite a bit of choices in quite a bit of prices. We were somewhat surprised to see that BMW has taken up the challenge in designing a good pair of headphones. The great news is that they partnered up with Sennheiser, a great headphone company.
The Miniguru Keyboard is a highly configurable mini-sized character input device which offers users the ability to access the whole range of keyboard commands in an edited layout size by assigning two layers of keys with touch typing in mind. The Miniguru also offers switching between clicky, tactile or linear style for audio and tactile feedback, making it easier for touch typists to efficiently pound out characters.
When it comes to screen size, going big can sometimes cause more pain than pleasure. Case in point, when we were living in our 300-square-foot studio, there was no way to engineer our media space without practically sitting on top of our 42-inch LCD. Jason Sewell had a similar dilemma with the layout of his living room in Richmond, Va. but rather than endure eye strain, he used the space under his stairs to build his media center.
The Neo Gramophone is both a throwback and step forward in one, with a polygonal minimal-modernist speaker form which hearkens back to an era of scratchy vinyl audio while actually abandoning the former medium for an updated feature of streaming audio via Bluetooth, complete with hidden subwoofer inside its horn speaker housing.
It looks strikingly like a security camera, complete with red light dot and tubular camera shape. But it's actually a bird house!
Name: Louis Marsand and Dominika Suwik
Location: Québec, Canada
Size: 14' by 10'
Type: Home office
When we saw Louis' work place, we just had to find out more about it. The asymmetrical book shelves, the bookish style charmed us and we needed to know more about this beautiful room that was lovingly hand-crafted. Louis used simple wood, tools and his hands to shape this home office accordingly. It simply looks amazing.
Hiding cables and wires doesn't need to have to include hiring an electrician or boring holes through your wall. In a pinch, you can use decorative boxes to hide the unsightly by-product of living in the digital age.
Portable electronics organization and charging solutions abound from those created to serve as a "landing strip" a place where you can charge your everyday devices to the simple docking station. Adding to these ranks is the BÅHEM by Igor Polyakov, a piece of furniture that will provide a stylish charging solution for your portable electronics.
We're HUGE fans of valentine's day and we also happen to be huge fans of real cards. They can be so personal and feel way better than receiving an e-card (blah!). We prefer cards that can make us smile and never want to throw it away!
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