A Trash Bin That Actually Belongs in Your Living Room
I’ve spent more time choosing a lamp than I care to admit, then put a plastic trash can beside the sofa because it was the…
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BirdVue: The World’s First 4G Smart Bird Feeder Finally Lets You Watch Birds Where They Actually Live
The birdwatching boom of 2020 was, genuinely, one of the nicer things to come out of a rough couple of years. Millions of people discovered…
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CLPR-01 Does for Calipers What Swiss Army Did for Knives
Most of us don’t carry a caliper around, even when a ruler isn’t quite up to the job. Try checking the width of a replacement…
The Desk Lamp Designed for Desks That Have No Room Left for One
Office lighting rarely cares whether you’re reading a document or squinting at a monitor. A desk lamp can help, but its sprawling base and arm…
The Corner-Bound Notebook Without the Wrist-Digging Problem
As a certified stationery hoarder (if there were an actual certification for that), I own all kinds of notebooks: hardcover, softcover, A5, A6, dotted, lined,…
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Vosteed’s $200 titanium folder is slim enough to forget, sharp enough to remember
The porcupine is one of nature’s better-engineered designs. It’s compact, self-sufficient, and its entire defense system lives in its skin rather than in added bulk….
This Expandable LEGO Frame System Finally Solves the Collector Storage Nightmare
Somewhere in a closet, a perfectly good LEGO minifigure is staring through a plastic bag at the back of a cardboard box. It has a…
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This Tiny Home Looks Like a Coastal Cottage and Lives Like One Too
Zook Cabins’ Winslow is proof that 400 square feet, designed with intention, can feel like considerably more. At 400 square feet across a single level,…
A $599 Robot Dog That Fits on Your Desk and Works Like LEGO Technic
A robot dog usually arrives with a trick and a lot of wiring. Q8botOne takes the opposite approach, putting its core electronics onto a central…
7 Japanese-Inspired Kitchen Gadgets That Make Your Counter Feel Like Tokyo
Most kitchen tools disappear the moment you stop using them. These seven don’t. Each one comes from a different corner of Japanese design thinking, where…
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…
This Thames-Side House Rises With Floodwater Instead of Fighting It
From the riverbank in Buckinghamshire, Formosa does not immediately look like a piece of experimental engineering. That restraint is part of its appeal. Designed by…
A $55 Camera Secretly Disguised as a Roll of 35mm Film
Because I grew up in the ’80s and ’90s, watching Gen Z and Gen Alpha kids lose their minds over stuff from those decades is…
The Eggshell Lamp You Can Rearrange So You Never Buy Another
I have a soft spot for lamps, but less patience for the way we buy them. Pick a shape, pick a spot, and hope both…
Halloween finally gets its own snow globe, and it’s made of LEGO
The snow globe was invented by accident in 1900, when a Viennese surgical instrument mechanic named Erwin Perzy tried to build a brighter operating room…
OnePlus wants to stick a tiny air conditioner on the back of its gaming phone
Apple’s MagSafe, which returned on the iPhone 12 in 2020, turned the back of the phone into prime real estate. Wallets stuck on first, then…
Wild Land PickupMate Trunk turns your pickup into two-story camping space at the push of a button
If you’re like me, constantly looking for a new way to carry, camp, and explore with the pickup, chances are you’ve heard about Wild Land….
This plastic stool is a giant Esc key, and it hides your clutter
I have a soft spot for objects nobody bothers to credit, and the plastic stool might be the champion of them. It’s the monobloc chair’s…
Atari Made a $219 Retro Console You Can Actually Write Programs On
There was a time when a computer invited you to do something before it told you what to buy. The Atari 800XL was built for…
3 Lamps Built From Objects Nobody Wanted Anymore
A room can have plenty of light and still feel oddly flat. Overhead fixtures handle the practical stuff, but they rarely give you a reason…
Amazon’s new Alexa tablets fix Fire’s biggest limitation with Google Play and Alexa+ support
Buying a tablet often comes down to what you want to do with it. Some people need a bigger screen for work, others want something…
Retro Song Bird Is the Record Player Game Boy Cartridges Deserved
Game Boy cartridges usually wait in a drawer until you feel like playing something again. But sometimes it’s the music you miss, not the game….