An Ex-Alibaba Exec Spent 12 Years Building the Smart Glasses that Google Couldn’t
The story of Google Glass is a well-worn legend in Silicon Valley. It was a product so far ahead of its time that it became…
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A Designer Spent Ten Years Perfecting the Most Beautiful Pill Organizer You’ll Ever See
About ten years ago, designer Adam C Miller made a pillbox for a close friend living with an invisible illness. The standard option available to…
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Every Robot You’ll Ever Own Has 3 Separate Brains: Nvidia VP explains how AI Thinks at BEYOND Expo 2026
A robot on a factory floor may look self-contained, but Deepu Talla says its intelligence is distributed across a hidden chain of machines. At BEYOND…
This Tiny House Under 36 Square Meters Sleeps Six — and Looks Incredible Doing It
Tiny house culture has spent years fighting the perception that downsizing means settling. The Porto, designed by Portuguese builder Casagaea, makes that argument feel outdated….
The $899 Desktop CNC That Impressed Asia’s Biggest Tech Expo
The guiding idea at BEYOND Expo 2026 was that AI software has finished its warm-up, and the main event is technology that acts in the…
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This 37.6g Titanium Caliper Is the One EDC Tool That Was Missing
The EDC community is particular about what earns a place in their pockets. Titanium hardware, precision multitools, and machined accessories all go through plenty of…
This Rotating Titanium Keychain Glows for 25 Years Without a Battery
Most everyday carry accessories are built on compromise. Flashlights need batteries. Multi-tools go through pockets without ever being opened. Tiny gadgets get charged for a…
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XREAL Just Partnered With Google to Build the Smart Glasses Apple Can’t
BEYOND Expo 2026 had no shortage of AI talk, but one of its most compelling hardware stories came in the shape of a pair of…
This $249 Phone Becomes a Game Console With One $29 Snap-On Tile
Feature phones have been having something of a quiet comeback, driven largely by people who are tired of the attention-capturing machinery baked into modern smartphones….
This Concept Organizes the First 30 Seconds of Coming Home in the Rain
Home entryway products have a coverage problem. A shoe rack deals with footwear, but not the umbrella. An umbrella stand handles the wet item but…
Nothing Book laptop concept let’s you be more expressive with a slender secondary screen on the lid
Nothing has revived and redefined the see-through design aesthetics that blew up in the late 1990s and early 2000s. That era was highlighted by colorful…
A Folding Chair Designed to Stay Out, Not Hide Away
I have a complicated relationship with folding chairs. Not a hostile one, just complicated. They are one of those objects that exist in a permanent…
CamelBak and Crayola Just Made the Most Nostalgic Water Bottle
Remember holding a fat crayon between your fingers as a kid? The waxy smell, the satisfying peel of the paper label, that specific weight in…
8 Last-Minute Father’s Day Gifts So Good He’ll Think You’ve Been Planning for Months
Father’s Day is the holiday most people intend to prepare for and don’t. June arrives, the week narrows, and suddenly you’re looking at a browser…
This Free 3D Lamp Has 300 LEDs and Looks Nothing Like a Printed Object
Decorative lighting has become one of the more satisfying corners of the maker movement. Most off-the-shelf lamp designs don’t bring much that’s genuinely distinctive into…
Nomad’s Limited $135 Charger Matches Apple’s Boldest iPhone Color
Wireless chargers have largely been designed to disappear. Most of them are flat, black, or white, and perfectly content sitting out of sight somewhere near…
Four Print Heads, One Machine, No Belts. The LightMake L4 is your Desktop 3D Printer on Steroids
For years, one of the biggest tradeoffs in desktop 3D printing has been clear. You could chase larger builds, faster motion, or multi-color capability, but…
These Actual Ammonite Fossil Keycaps Put 200 Million Years of Natural History on Your Keyboard
Your keyboard connects to your computer via a 2.4GHz wireless dongle. This keycap designed to slot onto your keyboard was formed at the bottom of…
The Same Alloy Used in Fighter Jets and Spacecraft Now Holds Your AirTag. It Weighs Less Than a Coin.
There is a specific kind of frustration that comes with building a carry kit piece by piece over months, selecting each object for a reason,…
Young Projects’ Cut Out House Proves Subtraction Is the Most Powerful Tool in Architecture
Most mountain houses try too hard. Cut Out House, designed by New York-based studio Young Projects, does the opposite — it sits in the foothills…
Muuto’s Minimalist Chair Hides A Tiny Heart In Its Details
There are few symbols more familiar than the heart. It appears everywhere, from children’s drawings to luxury branding, which is perhaps why designers rarely touch…
The Folding Charging Hub That Charges Your Phone, Watch, and Laptop Without Taking Over Your Desk
The Power Elf I from TESSAN starts its life looking like a modest bedside box. Then the magnetic wireless panel hinges upward, your iPhone snaps…