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Posts tagged “audio, video & computer”

Buy Me CD Rack

Yeah, we know CDs are on the fast track to becoming obsolete. And, those of us still hanging on to our CDs have collections far more vast that what this rack can hold. Nonetheless, we thought the ...

Vintage-style Radios from the Sundance Catalog

Radios are fast becoming quaint throwbacks to a simpler time -- who wants to sit through commercials when our favorite song is always on our iPod? -- but a small one to play news radio in the kitche...

Top 10: Flat Screen Setups on AT

How we watch TV. Maybe a flat screen TV is on your shopping list today. Or maybe you have one already, and you're spending your Buy Nothing Day crashed in front of it. Either way, we've rounded up...

Good Questions: Toddler-Proof Media Centers?

Hi AT:SF, Where can I find a media center, ideally in a dark wood, that is childproof and under $1K? My baby girl is obsessed with our DVD player and would hit the buttons all day. What we would li...

Good Questions: De-cluttering the computer desk

Hi AT:SF- I'm on my computer all the time, so I want to keep it in the living room. The only thing is - I hate the look of a desk there. It takes up too much space, clutters up the room, and is j...

Porcupine CD Rack

If you're an audiophile with a large music library, imagine how great it would be to have a CD storage system that integrated the look-up ease of a card catalogue with the browse-ability of the stacks...

Late-Breaking Event: Clean City - Free Electronic Waste Collection Event

Just in time for spring cleaning: Clean City is sponsoring a drop-off this Saturday for all those pesky outdated or broken electronics that need to stay clear of landfill. Here are all the details, fr...

Outdoor Entertainment Set

It's time to take things outside. Years ago, friends of ours hosted a film festival in their Noe Valley backyard. And, ever since, we've toyed with the idea of setting up outdoor screenings of our o...

On Sale: Todd Oldham's La-Z-Boy's Bamboo Collection

A few renegade pieces from Todd Oldham's Bamboo Collection for La-Z-Boy seem to have high-tailed it over to Overstock.com, and the prices are really good:...

Bench with Circle

Bench with Circle is a strange product, but one that we can see filling a void just perfectly in a home with wireless Internet. ...

How To: Turn an Ikea Lack Shelf into a Media Console

It's time for this to come full circle. We first saw this clever Ikea hack (the alteration of an Ikea Lack unit into a sliding-doored media cabinet) on a NY Flickr Find: the apartment tour of Portla...

Lightascope

Lightascope is a fitting product with which to wrap up Art Month. It's a thin sheet of plastic that attaches (temporarily) to the face of your flat panel TV. The plastic is mostly opaque, stamped w...

How To: Make your own dual purpose TV-Mirror

(Welcome again to Ann, one of the "techettes" vying for a blogging position at the upcoming AT:Home Tech. Comment away.) I love the moment on the decorating makeover shows when they bring out the 40...

JBL's On Time

(Welcome to Martina, one of the "techettes" vying for a blogging position at the upcoming AT:Home Tech. Comment away.) Given the ubiquity of the iPod these days (I'm seeing them in the pockets of Gran...

Belkin's Cable-Free USB Hub

(Welcome to Julie, one of the "techettes" vying for a blogging position at the upcoming AT:Home Tech. Comment away.) No matter how many wireless products you use, you probably still have several wir...

Suissa Computers

(Welcome to Ann, one of the "techettes" vying for a blogging position at the upcoming AT:Home Tech. Comment away.) Computers are central to most peoples lives and take a prominent place in our living...

Slingbox: Have TV Shows, Will Travel

(Welcome to Katie, one of the "techettes" vying for a blogging position at the upcoming AT:Home Tech. Comment away.) Gone are the days of not being able to take your TV with you wherever you go: no m...

The Evo System

Out with that ungainly TV cabinet, in with all manner of clever flat-panel mounting systems that usher the flat-panel revolution into your home without the slicing up of your walls. We thought we'd...

Home Tech Tour: Ryan and Joy's Livingroom

(Welcome again to Ryan, one of the finalists vying for a blogging position at the upcoming AT:Home Tech. Comment away.) Name: Joy and Ryan Location: Burnaby Canada Favorites: The big window.and t...

E-Base Charging Station

(Welcome to Natalie, one of the "techettes" vying for a blogging position at the upcoming AT:Home Tech. Comment away.) Rumor has it that we live in a wireless world. Last I checked, I had more wires i...

Roku Soundbridge

(Welcome to Ryan, one of the finalists vying for a blogging position at the upcoming AT:Home Tech. Comment away.) Have you spent hours painstakingly converting your collection of CDs into digital f...

Charging Stations

In our house a power strip has become our ad hoc el cheapo Multipot Personal Electric Charger. It's a muddle of wires and charging devices and we cuss it every time we plug or unplug one of the six de...

Unfinished Muro Media Storage

This is a very clever idea for renters who've splurged on flat-panel TVs. (Far less of a Bay Area anomoly than you'd think these days, with rents on the rise.) DWR's Italian-made Muro Media Storage a...

Indigo CD Storage

A while back, a reader asked about attractive options for CD storage and we suggested digitizing them. Lively discussion ensued. Not surprisingly, it turns out a lot of people have this dilemma an...

How To: Add Power

A bunch of you wrote in yesterday to share woes of the cables and wires strung around your apartments to compensate for poorly-placed (or infrequent) outlets. Tales were told of cords strung across fi...

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