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    • Remember When Rose Gold Took Over Everything? Apple Is Trying That Again With Dark Cherry
      Remember When Rose Gold Took Over Everything? Apple Is Trying That Again With Dark Cherry
    • This Table Lets Four Woods Melt Into One Beautiful Gradient
      This Table Lets Four Woods Melt Into One Beautiful Gradient
    • Wilson Benesch’s $130,000 Greenwich turntable arrives at HIGH END Vienna this June for audiophiles seeking sonic perfection
      Wilson Benesch’s $130,000 Greenwich turntable arrives at HIGH END Vienna this June for audiophiles seeking sonic perfection
  • Tech
    • Remember When Rose Gold Took Over Everything? Apple Is Trying That Again With Dark Cherry
      Remember When Rose Gold Took Over Everything? Apple Is Trying That Again With Dark Cherry
    • Wilson Benesch’s $130,000 Greenwich turntable arrives at HIGH END Vienna this June for audiophiles seeking sonic perfection
      Wilson Benesch’s $130,000 Greenwich turntable arrives at HIGH END Vienna this June for audiophiles seeking sonic perfection
    • Unitree’s transforming mecha robot is the closest thing yet to owning a real Transformer
      Unitree’s transforming mecha robot is the closest thing yet to owning a real Transformer
  • 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
    • This Expandable Popup Micro Camper Turns Your EV Into a Fully Equipped Tiny Home for Off-Grid Escapes
      This Expandable Popup Micro Camper Turns Your EV Into a Fully Equipped Tiny Home for Off-Grid Escapes
  • Architecture
    • 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
    • 10 Modular Sofas That Rearrange Like Furniture-Grade Lego
      10 Modular Sofas That Rearrange Like Furniture-Grade Lego
    • This Stationary Tiny Home Has More Room Than Most City Apartments
      This Stationary Tiny Home Has More Room Than Most City Apartments
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    • 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
    • The Lightest ThinkPad Ever Also Scored 9/10 for Repairability
      The Lightest ThinkPad Ever Also Scored 9/10 for Repairability
    • Kohler’s Smart Shower Purifies and Recirculates up to 80% of Water per Shower
      Kohler’s Smart Shower Purifies and Recirculates up to 80% of Water per Shower
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    • 10 Best Kitchen Tools and Appliances Designed to Live on Your Counter, Not in Your Cupboard
      10 Best Kitchen Tools and Appliances Designed to Live on Your Counter, Not in Your Cupboard
    • Your Old Film Camera Can Now Shoot 4K Video and 26MP RAW Files Without Any Modifications. Here’s How.
      Your Old Film Camera Can Now Shoot 4K Video and 26MP RAW Files Without Any Modifications. Here’s How.
    • This 1.5mm Japanese Chopstick Might Ruin Ordinary Ones for You
      This 1.5mm Japanese Chopstick Might Ruin Ordinary Ones for You
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      Huawei Watch Fit 5 Pro Review: More Than Its Slim Design Suggests
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      vivo X300 FE Review: The Compact Flagship That Earns Its Keep
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  • 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
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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

Featured Designs

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
Man in a beige jacket and sunglasses walks along a sunlit urban street, carrying a large blue-and-black hiking backpack.

This $214 Modular Backpack System Zips Apart Into 3 Separate Bags You’ll Actually Want to Use

Everyone knows the problems a single travel pack brings. If you get one that will work for an epic around-the-world adventure, it’s too big for…

Accessories, Deals, Featured, Product Design05/05/2026
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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

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
Two silver cube-shaped metal blocks stacked, tied with a brown leather cord on a wooden table surface.

A Pencil Sharpener Inspired This Brilliant Camping Cutlery Tool

There are probably times when you’re in desperate need of chopsticks when you’re camping out or somewhere where you don’t have access to it. Well…

Outdoor, Tableware05/13/2026
Man in a black shirt gestures toward a towering red humanoid robot on a city street, with silver and gold robots nearby.

Unitree’s transforming mecha robot is the closest thing yet to owning a real Transformer

Flying solo tied to a jetpack is a dream we have been savoring for quite some time now. And since movies like the Transformers, the…

Robots, Technology05/13/2026
Man getting a neck trim with a cordless hair trimmer held behind his ear in a barber’s chair.

Stop Chasing Shade: Sony REON Pocket Plus Brings the Cold to Your Neck

Staying comfortable outdoors during a heatwave has always been a matter of seeking shade, chasing air-conditioned spaces, or resigning yourself to a slow, sweaty defeat….

Gadgets, Technology, Wearables05/13/2026
Four smartphones in beige, burgundy, gray, and black with large quad-camera modules on the back, standing on rocks.”

Most Phone Cameras Flatter Your Shots, Sony Xperia 1 VIII Doesn’t

Smartphone photography has come a long way, but there’s always been a tension between what these cameras can do and what serious photographers actually want…

Phones, Technology05/13/2026
Teal retro-style SMEG appliance with a glossy black top on a light wood counter, greenery in the background.

10 Best Kitchen Tools and Appliances Designed to Live on Your Counter, Not in Your Cupboard

The kitchen counter is prime real estate. Most appliances waste it, sitting there looking generic and visually forgettable until they get pushed to the back…

Appliances, Deals, Kitchen, Product Design, Shop05/13/2026
Person typing on a laptop displaying Slack-style chat on the left and colorful charts on the right during a meeting scene.

The Lightest ThinkPad Ever Also Scored 9/10 for Repairability

Business laptops have gotten remarkably thin over the years, but the tradeoffs are hard to ignore. Repairability has taken a back seat to aesthetics, battery…

Laptops, Sustainable Design, Technology05/13/2026
Hand holding a Wacom stylus over a graphic tablet on a desk beside a laptop and office items

Wacom Art Pen 2 Adds the One Input Every Digital Pen Has Ignored

Digital art tools have gotten remarkably good at reading pressure and tilt, two of the three physical inputs that define how traditional artists handle a…

Accessories, Technology05/13/2026
Close-up of a Nikon SLR with the film compartment exposed and an orange flexible cable extending from the back, on a light gray background.

Your Old Film Camera Can Now Shoot 4K Video and 26MP RAW Files Without Any Modifications. Here’s How.

Somewhere in your home, there’s likely a camera that used to mean something. A Nikon FM2 inherited from a parent, a Canon AE-1 found at…

Accessories, Cameras, Deals, Gadgets, Product Design, Technology05/12/2026
Intricate skeleton wristwatch inside a clear glass globe, with blue constellation lines, mounted on a dark blue ribbed base.

This Marc Newson designed Jaeger-LeCoultre clock tracks Earth, Moon and seasons with cosmic precision

Like Jaeger-LeCoultre doesn’t need an introduction, neither does the Australian design icon, Marc Newson. If you want to know what the two in collaboration can…

Luxury, Product Design05/12/2026
Colorful stationery on a dark textured surface: red chopsticks resting on a green rolled paper with blue strips and pink pieces nearby.

This 1.5mm Japanese Chopstick Might Ruin Ordinary Ones for You

Most chopsticks are never designed. They’re just made. Wide enough to produce cheaply. Consistent enough to ship by the millions. Familiar enough that nobody questions…

Deals, Product Design, Shop, Tableware05/12/2026
Slim blue laptop opened at an angle against a black background, showing a backlit keyboard and a colorful glow on the touchpad area.

Google just announced a laptop with the worst possible name… and it’s filled with AI

Google just announced Googlebook. Not to be confused with Google Books, which is a separate Google service (even though if you search for Googlebook in…

Artificial Intelligence, Laptops, Product Design05/12/2026
Fluffy white plush with colorful monster patches on a rooftop ledge, city skyline in the background.

MIT Turned 12 Labubu Heads Into a Robot and It’s Watching You

Nobody told MIT grad students to build a rolling sphere covered in twelve Labubu faces. They did it anyway, and now the rest of us…

Robots, Technology05/12/2026
Orchid portable synthesizer with built-in keyboard, knobs, and display visible through a translucent housing on a light background.

Tame Impala’s Kevin Parker Co-Designed a Synth So Good It’s Now a Collector’s Item

Transparency in tech has followed the classic arc of any design trend: radical, then referential, then mainstream, then meaningful. Nothing made it radical. Dozens of…

Audio, Music, Product Design05/12/2026
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