LAYER Just Made a 65W Charger You’d Actually Want on Your Desk
At some point, most of us stopped caring what our charging setup looks like. A tangle of cables here, a plastic brick there, maybe a…
Mo & A Turned a Mitsubishi Taillight Into a Night Stand
Most furniture draws its inspiration from architecture, nature, or the clean geometric vocabulary of modernist design. Occasionally, a designer looks at the back of a…
This Architect Built a Chess Set Where the Hardware Is the Design
Chess has been around for roughly 1,500 years, and in that time, the chess set has been reimagined in almost every conceivable way. You’ve seen…
Forget Looping Rain Sounds. Mur Mur Has an Actual World Inside.
Most of us have made peace with ambient sound being a kind of elegant lie. The rain on your noise app isn’t real rain. It’s…
The Hydroponic Garden That Finally Looks Good on Your Counter
Growing your own herbs and greens at home sounds great in theory. In practice, it usually means a windowsill cluttered with sad little pots, a…
Jacksonville Built a Music Garden That Grows With Its City
Most public art arrives fully formed. It gets unveiled, photographed, written about, and then gradually becomes part of the background noise of a city. You…
Adidas Finally Made the $150 Shoe Gym Rats and Runners Need
Most gym bags tell a story. For hybrid athletes, that story usually includes at least two pairs of shoes: one for running, one for lifting,…
LEGO’s $229 Pinball Machine Is Part Toy, Part Time Machine
LEGO has been on quite a streak lately with its adult-targeted Icons sets, and the latest one might just be its most interesting flex yet:…
Enya Just Made a Guitar Anyone Can Play for $199
Most of us have a complicated relationship with music-making. We admire people who can pick up an instrument and just… play. We’ve maybe even tried…
NTS Radio’s New $179 Player Wants You to Stop Choosing
We spend an embarrassing amount of time choosing what to listen to. You open Spotify, scroll for fifteen minutes, start a playlist you’ve already heard…
Gazelle Finally Built the Privacy Shelter Every Camper Wished Existed
The tent industry has spent decades obsessing over sleeping quarters. We’ve seen ultralight backpacking shelters, geodesic domes rated for basecamp conditions, glamping canvas suites with…
A Design Student Just Fixed the Way Runners Hydrate
Most runners know the feeling. You’re a few miles in, the sun is beating down, and somewhere between the last water stop and the next…