A Goat-Headed Robot With a Chainsaw Is Actually a Great Idea
The first time I saw Threehalves, I did a double take. Seven feet tall, four-legged, with a horned goat head and glowing eyes, it looks…
Why London’s 2025 Campus Design Was Built for Hedgehogs
Most of us move through cities without thinking too hard about who else lives there. We navigate subway systems, dodge scooters, queue for coffee, and…
People Are Putting This $3,000 Toilet on Their Wedding Registry
The toilet is one of those objects we use every single day, and yet it has somehow remained completely untouched by the design revolution sweeping…
The World’s Slimmest Power Station (2.6″) Was Built for Your Fridge
Backup power is one of those things most people don’t think about until they absolutely have to. You lose electricity during a storm, open the…
Sweden Built a Pink Crystal Sauna on a Toxic Wasteland
A pink, faceted sculpture sits on the edge of a former industrial wasteland in northern Sweden, catching the river and forest across its mirrored steel…
The Steel Vase That Finally Lets You See the Whole Flower
The vase has been a solved problem for centuries. You put water in it, you put flowers in it, you set it on a table…
The Concrete Canvas Speaker That Refuses to Hide Its Wires
Most audio equipment is designed around the premise of concealment. The drivers are hidden, the wiring is tucked away, the internal mechanics are sealed behind…
PAC-MAN Shrank Into a Tiny $28 Synthesizer and It Actually Works
Some crossovers make obvious sense. Some don’t. The Otamatone Melody PAC-MAN is the rare kind that manages to be both completely absurd and entirely logical…
16 Modules, 1 Plaza, and a Student Project That Earned Its Spot
It doesn’t happen often that a temporary structure actually stops you mid-step. Paso Nara, a curved plywood pavilion now sitting at the intersection of Avenida…
The Sofa That Deploys Itself Uses the Same Wire as Heart Stents
Most of us have a complicated relationship with flat-pack furniture. The promise is always elegant: a flat box arrives at your door, you follow a…
AI Surveillance Cameras Can’t See Through This Jacket
The last time I really thought about what my outfit was doing for me, I was considering whether my summer dress made me look like…
The Steel-Scaled Pavilion Pointing at China’s Future
The first thing you notice is the skin. Tessellated stainless-steel panels wrap the Chengdu Pavilion like the hide of something alive, catching light in fractured…