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    • This tiny $74 device turns an old tablet into a smart dashboard for cars that never had one
      This tiny $74 device turns an old tablet into a smart dashboard for cars that never had one
    • Sony’s Wolverine PS5 Comes in Two Very Different Designs, and Only One Feels Worth the Price
      Sony’s Wolverine PS5 Comes in Two Very Different Designs, and Only One Feels Worth the Price
    • A $160 Japanese Everyday Carry Card Holder Designed to Disappear Into the Breast Pocket of a Blazer
      A $160 Japanese Everyday Carry Card Holder Designed to Disappear Into the Breast Pocket of a Blazer
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    • This tiny $74 device turns an old tablet into a smart dashboard for cars that never had one
      This tiny $74 device turns an old tablet into a smart dashboard for cars that never had one
    • JBL Pulse 6 portable speaker is also an ambient lamp designed to set the mood anywhere, anytime
      JBL Pulse 6 portable speaker is also an ambient lamp designed to set the mood anywhere, anytime
    • A Goat-Headed Robot With a Chainsaw Is Actually a Great Idea
      A Goat-Headed Robot With a Chainsaw Is Actually a Great Idea
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    • This solar-powered ambulance brings medical care to remote communities without relying on the grid
      This solar-powered ambulance brings medical care to remote communities without relying on the grid
    • Ex-McLaren Designers Just Built a $130,000 Carbon Fiber Chair
      Ex-McLaren Designers Just Built a $130,000 Carbon Fiber Chair
    • This Rooftop Tent Has a Skylight, a Ladder, LED Lighting, and deploys with a button.
      This Rooftop Tent Has a Skylight, a Ladder, LED Lighting, and deploys with a button.
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    • Why London’s 2025 Campus Design Was Built for Hedgehogs
      Why London’s 2025 Campus Design Was Built for Hedgehogs
    • Sweden Built a Pink Crystal Sauna on a Toxic Wasteland
      Sweden Built a Pink Crystal Sauna on a Toxic Wasteland
    • A Cultural Facility Turns Gwangyang’s Steel Heritage Into a Sunlit Cultural Landscape
      A Cultural Facility Turns Gwangyang’s Steel Heritage Into a Sunlit Cultural Landscape
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    • Roca’s New Bathtub and Basin Turn Recycled PET Bottles Into Sculptural Bathroom Design
      Roca’s New Bathtub and Basin Turn Recycled PET Bottles Into Sculptural Bathroom Design
    • This solar-powered ambulance brings medical care to remote communities without relying on the grid
      This solar-powered ambulance brings medical care to remote communities without relying on the grid
    • 7 Packaging Designs That Dissolve, Compost, or Actually Feed You – Plastic’s Replacement Is Here
      7 Packaging Designs That Dissolve, Compost, or Actually Feed You – Plastic’s Replacement Is Here
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    • This tiny $74 device turns an old tablet into a smart dashboard for cars that never had one
      This tiny $74 device turns an old tablet into a smart dashboard for cars that never had one
    • A $160 Japanese Everyday Carry Card Holder Designed to Disappear Into the Breast Pocket of a Blazer
      A $160 Japanese Everyday Carry Card Holder Designed to Disappear Into the Breast Pocket of a Blazer
    • 5 Japanese Pens & Notebooks So Beautifully Made You’ll Never Want to Type Again
      5 Japanese Pens & Notebooks So Beautifully Made You’ll Never Want to Type Again
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      DJI Osmo Pocket 4P Review: Finally a Pocket Camera That Flatters Faces
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      Huion Note E Review: The Notebook That Never Runs Out of Pages
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  • The $180 Razer Mouse That Makes a Second Gaming Mouse Pointless

    Gaming mice have always had a specialization problem. The ones built for MMOs come loaded with thumb buttons that feel excessive the moment you switch…

    Accessories, Gaming08/12/2026
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This tiny $74 device turns an old tablet into a smart dashboard for cars that never had one

Somewhere in your house right now, there is a perfectly good iPad/Android Pad doing absolutely nothing. Maybe it is the one you replaced two years…

Accessories, Deals, Product Design, Technology08/11/2026

Sony’s Wolverine PS5 Comes in Two Very Different Designs, and Only One Feels Worth the Price

Sony has a pattern with these limited edition consoles now. Announce a big first party or Marvel game, dress up a PS5 to match, sell…

Gaming, Product Design08/11/2026

A $160 Japanese Everyday Carry Card Holder Designed to Disappear Into the Breast Pocket of a Blazer

The business card holder is one of those objects the design world quietly decided was finished. A flat rectangle of leather or metal, room enough…

Deals, EveryDayCarry, Lifestyle, Product Design, Shop08/11/2026

Wooden Bench Hides a Full Survival Kit Inside

Most benches exist to give you somewhere to sit and catch your breath. They are humble, taken-for-granted objects, placed at intervals on a trail to…

Outdoor08/11/2026

Featured Designs

A Coin-Sized Disc Just Reinvented the Multi-Tool Nobody Could Fix

The multi-tool has been around long enough that most people have developed a frustrated relationship with it. You carry one because having a blade, a…

Accessories, Deals, EveryDayCarry, Featured, Product Design08/04/2026

This Damascus Steel compact EDC knife packs two sliders into a 0.6-inch body

Double sliders in a pocket EDC tool? That’s not something you see often, mostly because fitting two independent sliding mechanisms into a body small enough…

Accessories, Deals, EveryDayCarry, Featured, Product Design08/01/2026
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MILAN DESIGN WEEK 2026

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Collage of four product shots: a vintage smartphone on a blue surface, a phone hanging from a keychain on a wall, a blue-bordered phone mounted on white, and a stone-like device with a camera lens on a page marked 'YD Yanko Design'

ecal x Google Just Imagined 10 Phones Beyond the Slab

Assorted glossy, dome-shaped containers in multiple colors arranged on a white table at a design exhibit.

Leave It to a Jewelry House to Make the Most Beautiful Candle

Showroom display with a glass water feature containing white water lilies, surrounded by greenery and a branded backdrop.

Bang & Olufsen Just Taught Stone to Sing at Milan 2026

JBL Pulse 6 portable speaker is also an ambient lamp designed to set the mood anywhere, anytime

A Bluetooth speaker usually asks you to choose between sound and atmosphere. JBL’s new Pulse 6 is designed to make that choice feel unnecessary. Wrapped…

Audio, Product Design08/11/2026

Roca’s New Bathtub and Basin Turn Recycled PET Bottles Into Sculptural Bathroom Design

The plastic bottles in your recycling bin have a surprisingly glamorous potential future. Roca’s Stonex material comes from recycled PET resin, and the expanded Ohtake…

Bathrooms, Product Design, Sustainable Design08/11/2026

The Adidas Sneaker That Takes 24 Hours to Print and Seconds to Want

Footwear has always been a quiet conversation between technology and design. But every so often, a shoe comes along that forces the conversation out loud….

Fashion08/11/2026

Your Entire Steam Library Now Fits in a Game Boy-Sized Handheld

The Steam Deck modding community has taken Valve’s handheld gaming PC to some unexpected places. Modders have swapped in more RAM, loaded the hardware with…

Gaming08/11/2026

A Goat-Headed Robot With a Chainsaw Is Actually a Great Idea

The first time I saw Threehalves, I did a double take. Seven feet tall, four-legged, with a horned goat head and glowing eyes, it looks…

Robots, Technology08/11/2026

This solar-powered ambulance brings medical care to remote communities without relying on the grid

Stella Juva has the proportions of a futuristic ambulance, but its most interesting feature is what happens when it stops. Instead of simply waiting to…

Automotive, Medical, Sustainable Design08/11/2026

Why London’s 2025 Campus Design Was Built for Hedgehogs

Most of us move through cities without thinking too hard about who else lives there. We navigate subway systems, dodge scooters, queue for coffee, and…

Architecture08/11/2026

People Are Putting This $3,000 Toilet on Their Wedding Registry

The toilet is one of those objects we use every single day, and yet it has somehow remained completely untouched by the design revolution sweeping…

Bathrooms, Homes, Luxury08/11/2026

5 Japanese Pens & Notebooks So Beautifully Made You’ll Never Want to Type Again

There is a specific quality to well-made Japanese stationery that is difficult to name and easy to recognize. It is not about price or brand…

Deals, Product Design, Shop, Stationery08/11/2026

The World’s Slimmest Power Station (2.6″) Was Built for Your Fridge

Backup power is one of those things most people don’t think about until they absolutely have to. You lose electricity during a storm, open the…

Appliances, Gadgets, Technology08/11/2026

Ex-McLaren Designers Just Built a $130,000 Carbon Fiber Chair

Luxury furniture has long borrowed the language of high-performance design without much of the substance behind it. Carbon fiber panels get applied as surface decoration,…

Automotive, Furniture, Luxury08/11/2026

Dental Floss Finally Got the Premium EDC Upgrade It Always Deserved

Everyday carry culture has done something interesting to the way we think about the small objects in our pockets. Lighters, pens, and multi-tools have long…

Bathrooms, Deals, EveryDayCarry, Lifestyle08/10/2026

This Rooftop Tent Has a Skylight, a Ladder, LED Lighting, and deploys with a button.

Most rooftop tents still act like tents. You climb in, you’re surrounded by fabric, you sleep, you leave. The Sky Cruiser is going for something…

Automotive, Outdoor, Product Design08/10/2026

7 Packaging Designs That Dissolve, Compost, or Actually Feed You – Plastic’s Replacement Is Here

Plastic has long been the default choice for packaging because of its durability, flexibility, and low cost. Today, however, designers are proving that high-performance packaging…

Packaging, Product Design, Sustainable Design08/10/2026

iPhone Ultra Leak Confirms the $2,000 Device Might Ship Without a Zoom Lens

Apple’s foldable iPhone is shaping up to be the most expensive iPhone in the company’s history, and possibly the first flagship in years to skip…

Phones, Product Design08/10/2026
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