Yves Béhar’s Modular Sofa Seats 12 And Can Shapeshift Endlessly
Every designer had a pandemic project. Most people learned sourdough. Yves Béhar built a sofa made of foam triangles so his family would stop scattering…
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16 Modules, 1 Plaza, and a Student Project That Earned Its Spot
It doesn’t happen often that a temporary structure actually stops you mid-step. Paso Nara, a curved plywood pavilion now sitting at the intersection of Avenida…
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What a Fold-Out Cabin Actually Costs to Tow, Set Up, and Live In
Fold-out cabins photograph incredibly well, which is most of the reason you know they exist. Panels swing open, a roof lifts, and roughly ninety seconds…
The Sofa That Deploys Itself Uses the Same Wire as Heart Stents
Most of us have a complicated relationship with flat-pack furniture. The promise is always elegant: a flat box arrives at your door, you follow a…
iPhone 18’s Base Design Will Just Be an iPhone 17 in Disguise
For years, a new base iPhone has always looked at least a little different from the one before it. Never a full redesign, just enough…
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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…
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…
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FIG Living’s Dented Chrome Vases Make Imperfection the Feature
Most vases are designed around the flowers they hold. Their job is simple: contain water, support a few stems, and quietly disappear into the background…
Most Keyboards Pick Typing or Gaming, This One Swaps Its Physical Feel
The mechanical keyboard market has quietly split into two distinct camps. On one side, you’ve got premium enthusiast boards built around sound profiles, gasket mounts,…
7 Best Tech Gadgets of August 2026
August arrives with a lineup that feels genuinely considered. Not every gadget this month is chasing a headline spec or fighting for shelf space. Some…
AI Surveillance Cameras Can’t See Through This Jacket
The last time I really thought about what my outfit was doing for me, I was considering whether my summer dress made me look like…
The Steel-Scaled Pavilion Pointing at China’s Future
The first thing you notice is the skin. Tessellated stainless-steel panels wrap the Chengdu Pavilion like the hide of something alive, catching light in fractured…
Starbucks x Traveler’s Company Made a Collab Worth Flying to Tokyo For
As a stationery fiend, I always look forward to the second half of the year because most brands announce their lineups for the next year….
Most Laptops Mute Your Camera in Software, This One Cuts the Wire
The privacy conversation around laptops tends to happen entirely in software. Operating systems add permissions dialogs, apps get granted or denied microphone access, and browsers…
Humanoid Robots Don’t Fit in Store Aisles, So Robbyant Fixed That
Service robots have been making steady progress in controlled environments, but deploying them in real commercial spaces has always come down to one stubborn problem:…
DIY Writing Devices Get Expensive Fast, So This One Costs Almost Nothing
The writerdeck movement has one recurring irony: devices built specifically to cut through digital distraction have a tendency to get expensive. Custom keyboards, purpose-built screens,…
A $69 Pen-Shaped Electric Screwdriver Just Might Save Your Laptop’s $1000 Repair Bill
Have you noticed everything wants to rent itself to you now? Your car has a subscription for heated seats, your printer snitches on you for…
LEGO Shrinks Hogwarts to 700 Bricks, Keeps the Chamber of Secrets
Every LEGO Hogwarts has to decide what to leave out. The 2018 71043 kept nearly everything and asked for two feet of shelf in return….
Escape Tucked Two Bedrooms Into the Ceiling to Let 26 Feet Live Like a Full House
There are plenty of towable tiny houses that look good in a photoshoot. Far fewer are ones you could actually live in. The eONE Limited…
You Still Can’t Buy Airless Tires Even After A Decade… But You Can 3D Print One
Back in March 2021, we wrote about a bicycle tire that would never go flat, ever, for the entire life of your bike. It was…
MVRDV Built a Mountain in the Middle of Rotterdam
What does a building look like when it’s designed for birds, insects, and plants just as much as people? According to MVRDV, it looks like…
BRABUS’ first luxury catamaran gives you superyacht comfort with the thrill of a performance boat
For decades, BRABUS has built its reputation by transforming high-performance Mercedes-Benz vehicles into machines that are as bold in appearance as they are in capability….