A 4D-Printed Cast You Can Actually Shower In
Most medical devices evolve quietly over decades. Surgical tools get sharper, imaging machines get faster, drug delivery systems get smarter. But the orthopedic cast has…
Pininfarina’s Forever Pen Needs No Ink, Ever
I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about what makes an object truly worth keeping. Not just useful, but worth keeping. The kind of thing…
MAD Just Opened a 46,000 sqm Silver Cloud Museum in China
When we covered the Hainan Science Museum back in 2024, it was still a promise on renderings. The images showed a billowing silver form rising…
Sydney Just Opened a 42-Metre Steel Lookout Over a Former Quarry
If you told me a 42-metre platform made of weathering steel, suspended over a former rock quarry, would be one of the most compelling pieces…
Japan Just Built a Pokémon Footbath and It’s Genuinely Moving
When you hear “Pokémon footbath,” your brain probably goes one of two places: either immediate delight or mild confusion. Both reactions are fair. But when…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Alberto Essesi Just Designed the Lamp That Celebrates Mistakes
If you’ve ever assembled furniture, built a shelf, or wired anything with your own two hands, you know the feeling. You step back, you look…
Hario’s V60 Gets Its First Real Upgrade in 20 Years for $23
The original Hario V60 is the kind of object that earns its own mythology. Released in 2004, it became the face of the third-wave coffee…
What Happens When You Let 90 Kids Design a Birdhouse
Most of us have a pretty fixed idea of what a birdhouse looks like. A small wooden box, a round hole, maybe a little perch….