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    • 30 Years Later, Forrest Gump Gets the LEGO Set He Always Deserved
      30 Years Later, Forrest Gump Gets the LEGO Set He Always Deserved
    • 8 Best Pens and Writing Instruments That Make You Actually Want to Pick Up a Pen Again
      8 Best Pens and Writing Instruments That Make You Actually Want to Pick Up a Pen Again
    • This Portable Keyboard Has a 13-Inch 4K Touchscreen Built In, and It Fits in Your Laptop Sleeve
      This Portable Keyboard Has a 13-Inch 4K Touchscreen Built In, and It Fits in Your Laptop Sleeve
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    • The Insta360 Go 3S Retro Bundle Is a 4K Action Camera With A Viewfinder That Lets You Shoot Like It’s 1965
      The Insta360 Go 3S Retro Bundle Is a 4K Action Camera With A Viewfinder That Lets You Shoot Like It’s 1965
    • Ugreen AP16 Portable Monitor’s 500 nits 2.5K display promises smooth gaming, travel-friendly productivity
      Ugreen AP16 Portable Monitor’s 500 nits 2.5K display promises smooth gaming, travel-friendly productivity
    • Most Portable Monitors Are Rigid Slabs, This $1,299 One Folds
      Most Portable Monitors Are Rigid Slabs, This $1,299 One Folds
  • Automotive
    • This Designer’s Ferrari SC250 Concept Takes the Legendary 250 GTO to Its Logical Extreme
      This Designer’s Ferrari SC250 Concept Takes the Legendary 250 GTO to Its Logical Extreme
    • This $107K Trailer Hides 400W Solar in Its Fiberglass Shell
      This $107K Trailer Hides 400W Solar in Its Fiberglass Shell
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      This Expandable Popup Micro Camper Turns Your EV Into a Fully Equipped Tiny Home for Off-Grid Escapes
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    • MAD Just Opened a 46,000 sqm Silver Cloud Museum in China
      MAD Just Opened a 46,000 sqm Silver Cloud Museum in China
    • Sydney Just Opened a 42-Metre Steel Lookout Over a Former Quarry
      Sydney Just Opened a 42-Metre Steel Lookout Over a Former Quarry
    • Japan Just Built a Pokémon Footbath and It’s Genuinely Moving
      Japan Just Built a Pokémon Footbath and It’s Genuinely Moving
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      Su Yang Choi Made a Glowing Lamp From Seaweed, Paprika, and Gardenia
    • Mass Timber, Passive House, & a Curving Roof: This Canadian Community Centre Is the Civic Building Other Cities Should Be Copying
      Mass Timber, Passive House, & a Curving Roof: This Canadian Community Centre Is the Civic Building Other Cities Should Be Copying
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    • 8 Best Pens and Writing Instruments That Make You Actually Want to Pick Up a Pen Again
      8 Best Pens and Writing Instruments That Make You Actually Want to Pick Up a Pen Again
    • This Portable Keyboard Has a 13-Inch 4K Touchscreen Built In, and It Fits in Your Laptop Sleeve
      This Portable Keyboard Has a 13-Inch 4K Touchscreen Built In, and It Fits in Your Laptop Sleeve
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    The Insta360 Go 3S Retro Bundle Is a 4K Action Camera With A Viewfinder That Lets You Shoot Like It’s 1965

    The Kodak Charmera sold out repeatedly on the back of pure aesthetic energy, and Insta360 was clearly paying attention. The Go 3S Retro Bundle arrives…

    Cameras, Deals05/14/2026
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Futuristic circular white building with stacked rings beside a highway and green fields, city in the distance.

MAD Just Opened a 46,000 sqm Silver Cloud Museum in China

When we covered the Hainan Science Museum back in 2024, it was still a promise on renderings. The images showed a billowing silver form rising…

Architecture05/14/2026
Young woman in a light blue shirt holds a UGREEN laptop/tablet with a colorful splash on the screen against a white background, highlighting the product shift image.

Ugreen AP16 Portable Monitor’s 500 nits 2.5K display promises smooth gaming, travel-friendly productivity

External monitors have evolved far beyond the basic plug-and-play secondary screens they once were. Over the years, we’ve seen brands experiment with more flexible and…

Gadgets05/14/2026
LEGO figure sitting on a bench with a brown suitcase and a red card on a tiled floor.

30 Years Later, Forrest Gump Gets the LEGO Set He Always Deserved

The bus bench scene in Forrest Gump was never supposed to be the heart of the film. It was a framing device, a structural trick…

Popular, Product Design, Toys05/14/2026
Abstract 3D sculpture: a white numbered ring looping around a glossy black inner core against a black background (artistic, geometric form).

Loop Is the Marble Calendar That Never Runs Out of Pages

Digital calendars have made keeping track of the date nearly frictionless, which sounds like a good thing until you realize how thoroughly that frictionlessness has…

Accessories, Manufacturing05/14/2026

Featured Designs

Head-up display showing 30 mph, avg 25.1 mph, and a turn onto W 11th St, 0.9 mi ahead.

Tesla Left a Glaring Gap in Every Model 3 and Model Y. This $379 HUD Fixes It.

Fighter pilots have had heads-up displays since the 1950s, because asking a human to look down at instruments while traveling at 600 miles per hour…

Accessories, Automotive, Deals, Featured, Product Design05/08/2026
Six-port USB-C charging dock with a blue LED status panel showing per-port wattage on a rounded stand.

300W and 7 Ports: This GaN Charger Makes Every Other Multi-Port Charger Look Embarrassingly Weak

Most GaN chargers on the market right now treat 140W like a finish line. Satechi hit it with their ChargeView hub and added a wattage…

Accessories, Deals, Featured, Product Design, Technology05/07/2026
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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

Rusty metal stairway and platform with outdoor hillside view, leading up to a walkway over a forested landscape.

Sydney Just Opened a 42-Metre Steel Lookout Over a Former Quarry

If you told me a 42-metre platform made of weathering steel, suspended over a former rock quarry, would be one of the most compelling pieces…

Architecture05/14/2026
White two-tone wristwatch with colorful hour markers and a textured dial, set against a purple leather background.

The colorful Audemars Piguet x Swatch Bioceramic Royal Pop watch can be worn in multiple ways

Since 1875, Audemars Piguet has been at the core of Swiss watchmaking, relentlessly blending luxury with bold designs in the Royal Oak. The avant-garde craftsmanship…

Watches05/14/2026
Glowing orange and yellow looped sculpture hanging from the ceiling in an art gallery, forming intertwined rings.

Su Yang Choi Made a Glowing Lamp From Seaweed, Paprika, and Gardenia

Sustainable design has spent years negotiating an awkward identity crisis. The moment a material gets labeled biodegradable or plant-based, it tends to be filed under…

Lighting, Sustainable Design05/14/2026
Wooden pavilion with a yellow Pokemon banner over the entrance and large Pokemon cutouts (Pikachu and blue dragon-type figures) beside it by the sea view entrance.

Japan Just Built a Pokémon Footbath and It’s Genuinely Moving

When you hear “Pokémon footbath,” your brain probably goes one of two places: either immediate delight or mild confusion. Both reactions are fair. But when…

Architecture, Lifestyle05/14/2026

8 Best Pens and Writing Instruments That Make You Actually Want to Pick Up a Pen Again

There is an argument happening on desks everywhere, and it is not about productivity systems or the right notebook grid. It is about whether the…

Deals, Office, Product Design, Shop, Stationery05/14/2026
Person holds a foldable tablet opened to a product catalog beside a laptop on a white desk

Most Portable Monitors Are Rigid Slabs, This $1,299 One Folds

Portable monitors have become a legitimate part of the modern mobile workspace, with countless options available across every price range. But almost all of them…

Accessories, Gadgets, Technology05/14/2026
Two dark, transparent-style PlayStation controllers with textured grips sit on an orange-to-black gradient, glowing accents visible on the buttons and touchpad area (console-style gamepad display).

SCUF Omega Adds 11 Buttons to the PS5 Controller and One Fewer Excuse

The PlayStation 5’s DualSense controller is genuinely excellent for most kinds of gaming. Haptic feedback and adaptive triggers have added a new layer of immersion…

Accessories, Gaming05/14/2026
Compact laptop in tent/stand mode with a vivid rainbow RGB keyboard backlight on a dark desk surface, screen displaying bright colors.

This Portable Keyboard Has a 13-Inch 4K Touchscreen Built In, and It Fits in Your Laptop Sleeve

Closed, the VitaLink looks like a very flat book, silver, about the footprint of a large paperback, with nothing to suggest it carries a 4K…

Accessories, Deals, Gadgets, Product Design, Technology05/13/2026
Close-up of a pink smartphone back featuring a triple-camera module and a small flash on a dark background, highlighting the lenses and metal rim.

Remember When Rose Gold Took Over Everything? Apple Is Trying That Again With Dark Cherry

Rose Gold did not just sell iPhones. It rewired the consumer electronics industry’s entire relationship with color, spawning a decade of blush-tinted Samsung flagships, Beats…

Phones, Product Design05/13/2026
Modern glass-and-wood building under construction with scaffolding and a blue sky backdrop.

Mass Timber, Passive House, & a Curving Roof: This Canadian Community Centre Is the Civic Building Other Cities Should Be Copying

There’s a version of a public building that checks all the sustainability boxes and still feels cold, institutional, and somehow indifferent to the people it’s…

Architecture, Sustainable Design05/13/2026
Three stacks of smooth, rounded wooden blocks in dark, mid, and light browns on a pale surface.

This Table Lets Four Woods Melt Into One Beautiful Gradient

The Color Gradient Table is a piece that understands something very simple, but often overlooked: wood already has color. It does not need to be…

Furniture, Product Design05/13/2026
Close-up view of a red futuristic sports car with dramatic aero details, on a pale surface, with a classic red race car in the distance.

This Designer’s Ferrari SC250 Concept Takes the Legendary 250 GTO to Its Logical Extreme

Only 36 Ferrari 250 GTOs were ever built between 1962 and 1964, and one of them sold privately for $70 million in 2018. The body…

Automotive05/13/2026
Large white LEGO fortress with towers built on a rocky cliff, set on a wooden table indoors, with minifigures lined up at the front.

The Biggest Lord of the Rings LEGO Set Ever Just Dropped

I’ve been a LEGO adult fan long enough to know that the announcement of a new flagship set usually lands with a mix of excitement…

Toys05/13/2026
Luxurious mechanical device with a clear cylindrical centerpiece surrounded by metal components on a glossy black platform in a dark studio setting.

Wilson Benesch’s $130,000 Greenwich turntable arrives at HIGH END Vienna this June for audiophiles seeking sonic perfection

For more than four decades, the global high-end audio industry revolved around one annual ritual in Munich. Every May engineers, and audiophiles gathered at HIGH…

Audio, Product Design05/13/2026
Three folding chairs in red, gray-green, and natural wood tones arranged left to center, with a wheeled black rack of color samples on the right

PLANK Made a Folding Chair You’d Never Want to Put Away

Folding chairs have a reputation problem. For most of us, they conjure up images of bare banquet halls, plastic legs scraping across gymnasium floors, or…

Furniture05/13/2026
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