This Side Table Has No Legs: Its Two Storage Units Are the Structure
Side tables rarely demand much attention. They hold a drink, a lamp, or a book, and that’s essentially all anyone expects from them. The more…
Juan Carlos is the Editorial Director for Yanko Design. Holding degrees in both Philosophy and Computer Science, he has been covering tech and digital lifestyle since 2012. As an open source contributor since 2006, he has worked with the Kubuntu and KDE projects as a technical writer and a software developer, helping to make computers more accessible and usable to people. Having honed his skills over the years, he has developed insights into the design trends in tech and UX. He is a digital artist in his spare time and a self-professed otaku.
Side tables rarely demand much attention. They hold a drink, a lamp, or a book, and that’s essentially all anyone expects from them. The more…
The line between product design and sculpture has been blurring for years, but most objects still declare their purpose plainly. A lamp looks like a…
There’s a certain kind of object that can’t quite decide what it is, and not in a bad way. Furniture has increasingly strayed into collectible…
Most portable speakers these days are designed to disappear. They’re compact, wireless, and largely anonymous, blending into whatever surface they rest on until a voice…
The Raspberry Pi has always been a tinkerer’s dream, a tiny board that can become almost anything with enough creativity. Over the years, its growing…
Artificial lighting has come a long way, but most of it still operates on the same basic logic. You plug something in, it stays where…
The traditional desktop PC has been losing ground for years, not to laptops or tablets, but to a growing class of machines that ask a…
The tablet-as-laptop pitch has been a hard sell for years, and a lot of the blame lands on the accessories. Keyboard covers for Android tablets…
Ergonomic keyboards have a reputation problem. They work, technically, but most of them look like they were designed by someone who’d never sat through a…
For most people, the smartphone screen is where focus goes to die. Even when you pick one up with a purpose, the bright OLED glare,…
Most people deep in the Apple ecosystem carry at least three devices that need charging every day. An iPhone, an Apple Watch, and AirPods don’t…
Learning to play a musical instrument is one of the most commonly abandoned pursuits in modern life. The gap between wanting to play and being…