Weather100’s E-Paper Displays Give Daily Weather a Century of Context
Weather forecasts can tell you how warm tomorrow will be, but a temperature alone doesn’t explain how unusual that warmth is for your neighborhood. Weather100…
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Tupi’s Wooden Bird Lamp Has a Hidden Light Beneath Its Beak
Tupi’s oversized wooden beak looks like the kind of detail you’d add simply to make a lamp adorable. It also does the practical work. Beneath…
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This MacBook Concept Brings Workshop Styling to a Familiar Laptop
Laptop shopping can get rather repetitive when even very different machines wear similarly restrained metal shells. MacBook Brutal explores an alternative, keeping the familiar clamshell…
BIG’s Tirana Proposal Adds Homes Without Walling Off the Park
The scalloped terraces of Fountain Plaza Tirana look a little like a stack of clouds that forgot to drift away. Underneath, slender columns leave room…
CHEKT’s Chessboard Refuses to Hide Its Layered Design
The carrying handle on Jess Wiseman’s CHEKT board is the detail that makes the design click for me. Chessboards have an awkward domestic life: leave…
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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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ASUS ExpertBook A7 Gives the Business Laptop a Sleeker Look
When I first saw the ASUS ExpertBook A7, I had to double-check that it was really meant for business. This laptop immediately cuts a different…
9 Smartphone Accessories That Solve the Annoying Problems Your Phone Still Has
Your phone can shoot video, run a demanding game, and carry an entire music library. It can also leave you holding a warm slab of…
LAYER’s Ripple Dining Table Uses a Wavy Plywood Core to Cut Weight
Large dining tables are useful right up until you need to move one, when their reassuring weight becomes somebody else’s lifting problem. LAYER’s Ripple research…
HP EliteBoard G2a Hides a Windows PC in an Ordinary-Looking Keyboard
Desktop computers have become smaller, but even a little box needs somewhere to sit and cables to connect it. HP’s EliteBoard G2a removes that separate…
Pokémon Beats Pill Adds Charms Without Raising the Price
2026 is the year when Trainers everywhere celebrate Pokémon’s 30th anniversary, so we expected a lot of new merchandise, themed events, and collaborations with other…
This glowing modular moss panel system might be the coolest way to fix a boring room
Moss has been on this planet for around 450 million years, which means it predates dinosaurs, continents as we know them, and the concept of…
This chrome skeleton is the most extra mechanical keyboard ever made
In 2006, Dutch designer Joris Laarman fed a bone growth algorithm into a computer and got a chair that looked grown rather than built. His…
A Suspended Walkway Leads to This Tiny Cabin Overlooking the Salish Sea
A cabin this small could easily become an exercise in clever storage. On Blakely Island, Wittman Estes has taken a more interesting approach. The Seattle-based…
An Angled Public Bench for Hanging Out Without the Coffee Tab
A bench can give you a place to sit and still make talking surprisingly awkward. Line up two people facing the street, and conversation requires…
This Tiny Home Fits a Downstairs Bedroom and Two Lofts Into 24 Feet
The updated Avalon 24 gives its most useful space-saving move to the bedroom: it keeps it downstairs. Dragon Tiny Homes pairs that main-level sleeping area…
Twelve New Designs in Six Weeks: Why I Love the new Apple under John Ternus
For fifteen years, Apple was the friend who shows up to the party an hour late and then insists it brought the best snacks. Tim…
Extra wide street-legal Ford hatchback takes on-lookers by surprise
The world’s narrowest Fiat Panda caught me off guard the first time I saw it. I had to double-check if this was a vision anomaly,…
Meet Apple HomeView: A weirdly genius combination of the iMac, Watch, iPad, and HomePod
Apple’s design team apparently raided four different family albums and stitched the best bits into one object. HomeView has the iMac G4’s floating-screen silhouette, Apple…
Zook Cabins Fits a Soaking Tub & Separate Shower Into a 470-Square-Foot A-Frame Retreat
The A-Frame Retreat gives its most dramatic wall to glass, with windows climbing toward the roof’s sharp peak. Behind that familiar triangular silhouette, Zook Cabins…
This Robotic Pavilion Concept Would Change Its Layout Only When Empty
A public pavilion can give people somewhere to gather, but returning to it usually means finding the same spaces and following the same paths. Self-Assembling…