8BitDo’s $40 Xbox controller has a cable, a headphone jack, and drift-resistant sticks
Wired earbuds staged a comeback a couple of years ago, helped by Gen Z deciding a dangling white cable looks cooler than an AirPods case….
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Antonia Tiny House Offers a Bedroom Without the Climb
Loft bedrooms look efficient on paper. Move the bed upstairs, and suddenly there’s room for a proper kitchen or a sofa below. But that saved…
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Field Record’s 1.1-Pound Tent Stands Without Trekking Poles
Carrying less shouldn’t have to mean giving up a tent that supports itself. That’s the appeal of Field Record’s FR-SCD, a one-person shelter with a…
The MUNCH Museum Turns the Journey Between Galleries Into a City View
The bent upper section of Oslo’s MUNCH Museum makes an unmistakable mark on the waterfront. Yet the more interesting architectural move happens inside: the building…
The $179 Magic Screen gives any MacBook a touchscreen with stylus support
Hidden around a modern MacBook display are magnets used to tell the laptop you shut the lid. Intricuit, a small hardware startup, looked at those…
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5 Home Office Upgrades That Rethink How You Sit, Store, and Charge
Spending most of the day at a desk makes you surprisingly familiar with its little annoyances. There’s the chair that never quite fits, the papers…
Meet Draco, the 90mm smart telescope that wakes itself up to shoot the night while you sleep
About 4,500 years ago, while the Egyptians were busy stacking pyramids, the North Star was a completely different star called Thuban. It sat in the…
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This Logitech Surgical Kit Concept Turns XR Controllers Into Medical Instruments
Before a pilot flies you to Cancún, they’ve logged hours in a simulator crashing planes that don’t exist. Surgical training has had a harder time…
Hollow Clock V Trades a Solid Dial for a Ring of Hidden Gears
Most clocks give their hands somewhere obvious to stand, usually a solid face hiding the mechanism behind it. Hollow Clock V leaves that space empty,…
This Modular Building Concept Assembles Homes From Four-Foot-Wide Slices
Changing a home’s layout usually means working around walls that have no intention of moving. The Segmented Building System concept approaches that problem by treating…
Lift Ocean’s ONE Lifts Boats Above Water Without a New Hull
A speedboat that rises above the water is an easy visual sell. The less glamorous question is what happens to the perfectly usable boat someone…
HOA A1 Camera Lets You Stay Face-to-Face While Taking Photos
Taking someone’s photograph often means hiding your own face behind a camera or phone. That’s a rather strange way to capture a shared moment, especially…
8 Best Desk Accessories of October 2026 to Upgrade Your Workspace
Your desk does not need another gadget simply because there is room for one. The worthwhile additions are the ones that change how the space…
Caviar’s Zodiac Duo Phone Refuses to Keep Your Star Sign Subtle
Caviar’s Zodiac Duo may be on your wish list this year. Well, at least if you’re an Apple fan drawn to the idea of a…
A $25 Water Bottle That Packs Snacks Without an Extra Bag
A water bottle in one hand and a bag of trail mix in the other works perfectly well until you need your phone. Then the…
Twelve South’s Cablesnap 65W Charger Packs Its Cable So You Don’t Have To
Chargers have become smaller and more capable, but their cables still have a habit of becoming a tangled mess in our bags. Even remembering to…
Someone built a PlayStation arcade cabinet on ebay, and now I want to play Tekken
The PlayStation 5 is having a wild autumn. Modders have cracked it wide open, and people are now hauling Steam games onto the console and…
A $20 Paper Calendar Holds Three Months Without a Separate Stand
TriAngular makes a calendar out of a narrow paper triangle, which sounds like a stationery trick until you consider the desk it’s meant to occupy….
This Cactus-Inspired Coffee Machine Looks More Like a Sculpture Than a Kitchen Appliance
Most coffee machines are designed to fit in. They sit quietly on kitchen countertops, dressed in familiar shades of black, silver, or white, with little…
This Oregon Library Brings the Feeling of Walking Through a Forest Indoors
What if walking into a library felt a little like stepping into a forest? In Gresham, Oregon, that idea has taken shape through towering wooden…
Two Hidden Mechanical Movements Power One Slim Louis Erard Watch
Two riveted portholes occupy the face of the Louis Erard × Vianney Halter Futur Antérieur, making it look like submarine equipment that escaped into a…
Optoma’s $599 4K Projector casts a 150-inch Screen for the price of an Android Phone
My first apartment had a living room wall the size of a parking space and a TV budget the size of a parking ticket. Had…