This Ceramic Vase Is Actually a Phone Speaker That Needs No Power
The home has become increasingly cluttered with gadgets that need charging, pairing, and their own dedicated spaces. Even something as simple as playing music from…
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.
The home has become increasingly cluttered with gadgets that need charging, pairing, and their own dedicated spaces. Even something as simple as playing music from…
Tabletop roleplaying games have an accessory problem. The dice alone can take over a corner of any gaming table, each one representing a different die…
The race to make flagship phones thinner, smoother, and more visually unified has become one of the defining stories in premium smartphone design. Hard angles…
The tabletop clock has been one of the quieter casualties of the smartphone era. Most people stopped owning them the moment a phone took over…
Gaming setups have grown considerably more complex, and the demands on screen real estate have grown right along with them. A serious session today might…
E Ink readers have steadily become better at mimicking the feel of paper, but getting through a book with one still requires the same thing…
Phone cases have largely settled into two camps: the ones that protect your phone without anyone noticing they exist, and the ones that make a…
The split air conditioner is one of the least loved objects in any home, which is a strange thing to say about something most people…
Waiting in line at a theme park is one of those unavoidable experiences that nobody designs for enthusiastically. The physical infrastructure exists, the rope lines…
The pointing stick is one of the more divisive input devices in computing history. Lenovo’s TrackPoint has a devoted following, built around people who never…
School tech accessories live and die by one rule that has nothing to do with specs: can they survive a school day? That’s not a…
Most fitness trackers have followed the same design logic for years: a screen on the wrist that flashes step counts, shows incoming messages, and turns…