Google, Amazon, and Sonos All Redesigned Their Smart Speakers, Except Apple
Between 2017 and 2021, Amazon’s devices division burned through over $25 billion, with Alexa and Echo hardware at the center of almost every bad quarter….
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Beatbot’s AquaSense X Proves the Best Technology Goes Unnoticed
Smart home products have a funny habit of promising to simplify your life while quietly adding to your list of things to manage. Pool cleaning…
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This Japanese Key Ring Has One Press, No Coil, And Zero Need For Your Thumbnail
The EDC community has, over the past decade, upgraded nearly everything it carries. Wallets went from leather bricks to carbon fiber cardholders. Pens became precision…
A 1960s Lounge Chair That Still Feels Like a Future Artifact
Some pieces of furniture explain themselves immediately. Others ask you to slow down for a second. Pierre Paulin’s F300 Lounge Chair belongs to the second…
This Leaked $300 LEGO Poké Ball Is the Most Ambitious Pokémon Set Yet, and It Opens Into an Entire World
Polly Pocket understood something most toys missed. The magic was never the doll, it was the reveal, that little hinged compact snapping open to expose…
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This Presenter Remote Will Replace Your Mouse, Mic, AI Translator, and USB-C Hub
The modern workflow is often a series of disconnected actions; typing in one window, clicking in another, and plugging in peripherals just to get started….
We’re Officially in the Titanium Travel Case Era, Soft-Shell Suitcases Had a Decent Run…
Pull up the baggage carousel at any major international airport and you will see a parade of soft-shell fabric or hard-shell plastic cases, most of…
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Nothing Ear (3a) boasts built-in audio recording, smarter ANC, and 42-hour battery life for just $99
Most wireless earbuds are designed to disappear into your daily routine. The Nothing Ear (3a) does the opposite. While the pair of buds brings the…
Nokia’s 4 New Dumb Phones Still Come With an AI Button
The dumb phone comeback has been one of the more quietly satisfying design stories of the last few years. People are tired. Tired of doom-scrolling,…
Most MagSafe Wallets Just Hold Cards, MOFT’s Also Tracks Itself
MagSafe wallet accessories have become their own product category, and the options aren’t in short supply. Most do one thing well. The slim ones snap…
Wake Up, Neo. Your Ring Is Playing the Matrix.
Look at the Digital Rain Ring when the screen is off, and you might not immediately clock what you’re looking at. A clean silver bezel….
adidas BB.01 is first 3D-printed basketball shoe built to improve stability and flexibility on court
While the world is fixated on who’s making it to the quarterfinals of the FIFA World Cup. adidas thinks it’s done enough for the love…
The Smartest $9 Pet Accessory Is Just a Bottle Cap
The best design ideas tend to be the ones that make you stop and think, “why hasn’t anyone done this before?” Gaenim’s silicone bottle cap…
A Design Student Just Imagined the Perfect Vinyl Turntable
Sungwoo Choi is an industrial design student with one question: what if Nothing made a turntable? The answer is Turntable (1), a personal concept project…
The 8 Best Tech Gadgets of July 2026
July 2026 is shaping up to be a rich month for design-forward tech. From a power bank that rewrites what thin means to a speaker…
This Vase Was Made From Aluminum Tubes That Would’ve Been Thrown Away
Vases occupy an awkward corner of product design. Most exist somewhere between functional and decorative without committing to either, and the result is a category…
Get Ready for the Color E Ink Monitor That Finally Runs at 60fps
E Ink displays have earned a devoted following among people who spend long hours reading or writing. The technology produces virtually no flicker, doesn’t use…
This 3-in-1 Qi2 + MagSafe Charging Dock Is the ‘Bedside Clutter Killer’ Apple Never Built
It has been nearly a decade since Apple stood on stage and showed the world a glimpse of a perfect, seamless charging future. They called…
Xiaomi launched a $107 compact photo printer while all other tech is becoming expensive
Xiaomi picked a strange moment to launch cheap hardware, because the global gadget market spent 2024 and early 2025 conditioning buyers to accept higher prices….
Snøhetta’s Shanghai Grand Opera House Is the Most Dramatic Building of 2026
Some buildings house culture, and there are buildings that ‘become’ it. The Shanghai Grand Opera House, designed by Snøhetta in collaboration with East China Architectural…
From Abandoned Fishing Nets to Light That Carries the Sea
Some objects arrive in our homes with perfect surfaces and polished silence. Tides Rewoven Light does the opposite. It carries its past visibly. Its fibers…
This Award-Winning Guitar Ditches the Strings, the Frets, and Most of the Body, and I Kind of Love It
Look at RIFFMATE for a second and try to name what is missing. No strings. No fretboard bristling with metal wire. No solid slab of…