LEGO and Nike revive the Air Max 95 Neon for a spring release next year
LEGO and Nike make an impactful pairing. We have seen that in the past, and it’s a story that will repeat itself in the Spring…
Product Design
Designers Finally Admit: These 7 Gifts Beat Every Fancy Pen Set
The fancy pen set has become the most predictable gift in the design world. Sleek metal barrels tucked into velvet cases, often expensive, rarely used….
TCL Note A1 Tablet Feels Like E-Ink Paper but Shows Full Color and Video
People bounce between paper notebooks, e-ink readers, and glossy tablets, each good at one thing and bad at others. E-ink is gentle but slow and…
ChatGPT-Powered Desk Mic gives your Existing Laptop Realtime Translation and Agentic Powers
The most interesting AI hardware this year might not be a new screen or headset. It might be a microphone. Powerrider frames that idea very…
How to Spot Fake AI Products at CES 2026 Before You Buy
Merriam-Webster just named “slop” its word of the year, defining it as “digital content of low quality that is produced usually in quantity by means…
2025 Volkswagen Golf GTI Review: Car of the Year
Forty years into its production run, the Volkswagen Golf GTI faces a question most performance cars never survive long enough to answer: what happens when…
Hisense XR10 Laser Projector and the Case for Flexible Scale at CES 2026
Large-format displays have always posed a spatial question that brightness alone cannot answer: how much permanence does a room owe to its screen? The Hisense…
5 Travel Essentials Every Last-Minute 2025 Traveler Regrets Forgetting
There’s a particular kind of panic that sets in about thirty minutes before you need to leave for the airport. You’ve thrown clothes into a…
This Case Fixes iPhone’s Weak Selfie Camera with a Second Screen
The iPhone’s rear cameras keep getting better, but selfies still rely on a smaller, lower-resolution front sensor, and storage upgrades cost considerably more than a…
This $2,899 Desktop AI Computer With RTX 5090M Lets You Cancel Every AI Subscription Forever
Look across the history of consumer tech and a pattern appears. Ownership gives way to services, and services become subscriptions. We went from stacks of…
How Coca Cola’s Benny Lee Is Redefining Industrial Design as Storytelling, Not Just “Making Products”
Design Mindset steps into episode 16 with a clear purpose: to understand how industrial designers are navigating a world where tools, platforms, and expectations keep…
Handcrafted Porcelain Dinnerware Redefines Everyday Dining Through Craft, Light, and Ritual
Porcelain dinnerware has long been shaped by the logic of industrial production. Uniform forms, limited color palettes, and standardized finishes dominate the contemporary table, reducing…