XbooK’s $1,999 Triple-Screen Laptop Is One Bag Instead of Three Monitors
Anyone who has worked remotely long enough knows the moment a single laptop screen stops being enough. It’s usually the day you’re cross-referencing three documents…
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This E Ink Foldable Phone Concept Punishes Doomscrolling by Design
Most smartphones are designed to be impossible to put down. The screen faces up on every table, the display lights up for every notification, and…
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8 Best Desk Accessories for Men That Don’t Look Like They Came From a Corporate Supply Closet
There’s a version of a desk setup that communicates everything about how little thought went into it. A black mesh organizer from the bottom shelf…
The Shargeek 300 is a Cyberpunk-style Power Bank that can charge two MacBook Pros
Power banks have spent years being boring on purpose. Black rectangles, white rectangles, the occasional textured finish. The category settled into a kind of…
When Your Speaker Is Also a Puzzle, Music Hits Different
Most speaker designs ask a pretty simple question: how do we make this thing louder and smaller? Merge asks a completely different one. How do…
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Epomaker TH80 V2 & V2 Pro: Wireless Keyboards That Last 200 Hours
There is a particular kind of frustration that comes with wireless keyboards, and it always arrives at the worst possible moment. Mid-sentence, mid-meeting, mid-game, the…
Skip the $20K Install: The $799 iGarden Swim Jet X Series Clamps Onto Any Pool
Most backyard pools spend their lives being thoroughly underused. They’re great for a hot afternoon cool-down and perfectly fine for the occasional float, but not…
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Snøhetta Built a Metro Station in Riyadh That Reflects the Entire City Back at You
There is a moment, the architects at Snøhetta will tell you, when you step off the train at Qasr AlHokm and look up, and the…
A Wind-Powered Tumbleweed That Heals the Desert as It Rolls
I have to be upfront: I did not expect a tumbleweed to be one of the most exciting design concepts I’d encounter this year. Tumbleweeds,…
Stay Classy, San Diego: This LEGO Anchorman Set Recreates the Entire Channel 4 Newsroom in 1,500 Bricks
Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy turned twenty in 2024, and somehow, the film has only gotten funnier with age. What started as a Will…
Track Trailer reinvents Tvan, one of the toughest off-roading trailers with roomier MK6 model
Track Trailer, the name behind the famous Tvan off-road camper trailers, needs little introduction. It has been powering the overlanding experience in Australia and worldwide…
This Fan Made the Sony-Nintendo Handheld the Companies Never Would
The retro handheld market has a strange problem. The hardware keeps getting better, the screens get sharper, the processors get faster, and yet most of…
This Origami Stool Has No Legs, No Bolts, and Opens With One Press
Furniture storage is one of those problems that design has mostly surrendered to square footage. You either have room for a stool, or you don’t,…
Casio’s special edition calculator handcrafted using traditional Japanese lacquering technique
For the unpressumable, the good old calculator is a gadget of yesteryears, as the smartphone does all the multitasking. However, for someone who works with…
A $500 Cat Scratcher That Looks Like a Floating Shelf
Most cat owners have made peace with a certain kind of compromise. You get the cat, the cat gets the furniture, and whatever mass-produced scratching…
The Macaron Collection That’s Actually Built to Last
Furniture rarely makes me stop scrolling. Most of what cycles through my feed either looks too clinical to feel livable or too trendy to last…
10 Best Camping Gadgets Every Design Snob Needs Before Spring Actually Convinces You to Go Outside
Spring has a particular gift for making the outdoors look better than it probably is. The light softens, the temperature edges toward reasonable, and suddenly…
What If Google’s Server Heat Became Its Most Prominent Design Feature?
Most conversations about Big Tech and sustainability follow a familiar script: a company announces a carbon pledge, releases an environmental report full of impressive-sounding numbers,…
XPPen’s 4K Display Fixes the One Thing That Ruins Digital Art: Color
Finishing a piece of digital artwork only to discover that the colors on your client’s monitor look nothing like what you spent hours calibrating is…
8 Best EDC Knives To Choose Based on Your Outdoor Personality
The gear people carry tends to reflect how they move through the world. A minimalist packs light and intentionally. A tactical thinker layers redundancy into…
This Brutalist Overland Trailer Turns Your RAM TRX Into Something That Belongs on a Military Base
Brutalist architecture has always had a cult following, and somewhere along the way, the overlanding world started listening. GEHOcab’s EDGE Explorer Trail looks less like…
This Wood Greenhouse Solves the Biggest Problem Backyard Gardeners Face
Every gardener knows the frustration. A late frost wipes out seedlings. An unpredictable cold snap cuts the season short. A small yard leaves little room…