This 2,680-piece LEGO AKAI tape deck is my kind of analog nostalgia
Owning a reel-to-reel deck in the 1970s meant owning a piece of furniture you could not move alone. The Akai PRO-1000 came in two boxes,…
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Knot Stool Refuses to Hide Its Rope-and-Aluminum Joints
A small knot sticks out from the side of the Knot Stool, and I like that it hasn’t been tucked underneath or disguised with a…
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A Curved Timber Core Divides This Compact Kyoto Home Without Closing It Off
A curved timber volume sits at the heart of Sugi House, shaping the rooms around it without closing them off. Designed by Ujizono Architects, the…
Tesla’s new roadster employs SpaceX thrusters to perform midair flips, reach 60 MPH in 0.81 seconds
Tesla’s second-generation Roadster is taking the idea of a performance car in an unexpected direction. At a demonstration held at a SpaceX test facility in…
Toyota’s ‘Wheel-less’ Wheelchair wins the 2026 Red Dot Concept Luminary Award
Somewhere around age eight, I decided the coolest vehicles in the universe all had legs. The AT-ATs in The Empire Strikes Back, the mechs in…
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This 9-in-1 folding titanium ruler can draw circles, slice paper, and eject your SIM card
Measure twice, cut once is solid advice that skips a few steps. Somewhere between the measuring and the cutting you also need a pencil, a…
The $146 Await camera brings back the disposable with 24 photos per roll, so every shot counts
Your camera roll holds 14 near identical photos of the same pasta dish, and you will never open a single one. We call it documenting…
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From Paper Furniture to Denim Plates: 5 Ways to Rethink Scrap Material
Modern design is undergoing a major transformation as architects, artists, and product designers begin to see waste not as a problem, but as a valuable…
Amazon’s new Bee AI devices help you remember more without taking notes
Remembering details from meetings, conversations, and everyday interactions is hard when you’re splitting your attention between listening and taking notes. Amazon is addressing this with…
Aurelis Bag Concept Is Wearable Sculpture Without a Solid Shell
I don’t own a lot of unique-looking bags, as I’m more of a practical and utilitarian kind of bag owner. But I do like observing…
Fyne Audio’s Speaker Uses Hidden Glass to Tame Ringing
A glass diaphragm is an unlikely detail to get excited about in a speaker that looks like expensive furniture. Yet it’s the detail that makes…
8 Gifts That Actually Impress the Guy Who Has It All
He already has the phone he wants, the watch he chose himself, and strong opinions about the coffee equipment on his counter. Buying him something…
Elgato Wave Go Turns a Tiny Clip-On Into a Handheld Microphone
Clipping a microphone to your shirt leaves your hands free, but interviewing someone else calls for something you can comfortably hold between you. Carrying separate…
OPPO Pad Mini Fits a Matte OLED Screen Into a 10-Ounce Tablet
Tablets give books and sketches more room than a phone, but their glossy screens can turn a nearby window into part of the content. Making…
Sony’s Gold-Plated Walkman: Cassette Nostalgia Without Tapes
One of the things I wish I had been able to keep from “the olden days” is my cassette player, specifically my Sony Walkman. It…
This coin-sized titanium tape measure handles straight lines, curves, and looks like jet-engine stock
Grade 5 titanium (Ti-6Al-4V) is the alloy of jet engine compressor blades, surgical implants, and aerospace fasteners. It has a tensile strength of nearly 1000…
Rollable laptops, painless tattoos, and a flying car: Red Dot’s 2026 Best of the Best has range
Every October I do the same thing. I open Red Dot’s concept winners, grab a snack, and brace myself to fall in love with something…
This Tiny Home’s Bed Rolls Onto the Deck So You Can Sleep Outside
A bed on wheels is the defining feature of the Atlas, a park model tiny home by Zook Cabins. Open its glass garage door, roll…
You now pair your old iPod with AirPods thanks to this Motherboard swap
When Jobs pitched the iTunes Music Store to studio execs, he pointed at Napster as the model. Napster won because it was easy, so Jobs…
380,000 LEGO Flowers Spill From an Oil Tank and Never Wilt
An old oil tank makes an absurdly good vase when the flowers arrive by the hundred thousand. At TANK Shanghai, LEGO Botanical Wave sends more…
Someone Turned the Beats Pill Into a Diglett, and Now the Official Pikachu Version Looks Boring
Pokémon turned 30 this year, and every brand with a product page seems to want a slice of the cake. Polaroid’s Pokémon cameras and the…
This Tiny E-Paper Game Boy lets you play Super Mario Land at 30 FPS on a reading screen
Who would have thought an e-paper screen could run Game Boy games at 30 FPS? That’s exactly what Bo Made It’s InkBoy project sets out…