Little Giant’s Forest Studio Has No Right to Be This Good
Most architects design spaces for other people. It’s the nature of the job. You read a brief, interpret a client’s vision, and find a way…
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This $549 QWERTY Android Phone Was Built to Give You Your Day Back
Smartphones have never been smarter, but they’ve also never been more demanding. Bigger screens, algorithmic feeds, and relentless notifications aren’t design oversights. They’re deliberate, built…
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A Designer Curled a Single Sheet of Aluminum Like Paper to Make a Grater That Fits Perfectly in Your Palm
Most graters are a negotiation. The box grater comes out, takes up half the counter, threatens your knuckles on every pass, and goes back in…
Madkids Empire Is Turning Intimidating Synth Gear Into Pure Play
Most musical instruments communicate one thing very clearly before you even touch them: you have to earn this. The arrangement of knobs, the wall of…
The Pixel 11’s Coolest New Feature Is Actually 10 Years Old
The Pixel 11 lineup arrived this week with a genuinely great redesign. The camera bar is 40 percent thinner, the glass runs edge to edge,…
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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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JCB Hydromax sets a new hydrogen land speed record at 406.320 mph
A pair of hydrogen-powered engines developed for construction machinery has just been pushed into territory normally reserved for purpose-built speed machines. JCB’s Hydromax has reached…
Google’s Pixel Tag is making the same ‘boring’ design mistake that Apple, Samsung, and Xiaomi made
The Pixel Tag comes in exactly one color, a grey green called Fog, wrapped around stainless steel with a G logo stamped right on the…
5 Best Back-to-Work EDC Upgrades That Actually Make Carrying Less Feel Like More
Summer does a reliable job of exposing what is wrong with your carry. Thinner clothes mean shallower pockets, and whatever has been accumulating since January…
This Cork Cactus Looks Like Decor and Acts Like 3 Pieces of Furniture
Coat stands have always occupied an awkward position in a room. They’re functional enough to keep around but rarely considered anything beyond a place to…
Casio upgrades the classic F-91W watch with smart functions, and it’s already sold out in Japan
Without a doubt, the Casio F-91W is a legendary timepiece that is still available to buy for $20. While the digital watch has retained its…
Streaming Took Something From Us. The ENSA T1 Wants It Back
Do you remember the last time music actually demanded something of you? Not just your attention while you scrolled, but your hands. The deliberate pull…
Furniture Made From Wood Scraps You’d Actually Pay For
Every furniture workshop generates a particular kind of guilt. There are the offcuts, the trimmings, the odd-shaped remainders of boards that got cut to size…
Honor Robot Phone Hands-on: Bold Phone With A Moving Camera Few Can Buy
After many teasers and demos, the Honor Robot Phone has finally and officially launched in China. It is also staying exclusive to the Chinese market…
A Maker Spent Months Building a Pokéball That Jumps and Shoots Smoke
Pokémon has always sold us a very specific fantasy: a compact sphere you can throw into tall grass, watch shimmy three times, and hear that…
The $180 Razer Mouse That Makes a Second Gaming Mouse Pointless
Gaming mice have always had a specialization problem. The ones built for MMOs come loaded with thumb buttons that feel excessive the moment you switch…
This tiny $74 device turns an old tablet into a smart dashboard for cars that never had one
Somewhere in your house right now, there is a perfectly good iPad/Android Pad doing absolutely nothing. Maybe it is the one you replaced two years…
Sony’s Wolverine PS5 Comes in Two Very Different Designs, and Only One Feels Worth the Price
Sony has a pattern with these limited edition consoles now. Announce a big first party or Marvel game, dress up a PS5 to match, sell…
A $160 Japanese Everyday Carry Card Holder Designed to Disappear Into the Breast Pocket of a Blazer
The business card holder is one of those objects the design world quietly decided was finished. A flat rectangle of leather or metal, room enough…
Wooden Bench Hides a Full Survival Kit Inside
Most benches exist to give you somewhere to sit and catch your breath. They are humble, taken-for-granted objects, placed at intervals on a trail to…
JBL Pulse 6 portable speaker is also an ambient lamp designed to set the mood anywhere, anytime
A Bluetooth speaker usually asks you to choose between sound and atmosphere. JBL’s new Pulse 6 is designed to make that choice feel unnecessary. Wrapped…