There is a reason Kevlar keeps showing up in premium phone accessories. The material brings a rare combination of low weight, tactile richness, and serious…
The history of decorative stone carving and the history of electric lighting have almost never intersected in any meaningful way at the shade level. The…
Most projector makers treat audio as an afterthought. Slap a single speaker somewhere on the chassis, call it Dolby-something, and move on. Soundcore, being a…
Why does every electric truck feel like it was designed by someone who wanted to leave the truck category as quickly as possible? The Rivian…
Forty-one percent of people have folded towels while on a work call. One in five have taken meetings from a makeshift setup in their child’s…
Cork has spent decades being underestimated. Wine stoppers, bulletin boards, yoga mats, the occasional floor tile. Somewhere along the way, a material with genuinely remarkable…
Sheet metal has been a furniture material for decades, but it almost always gets hidden. It becomes the internal skeleton, the underframe, the bracket buried…
Apple, a company that charges a premium for premium display technology, has somehow never put an OLED screen in its most pocket-friendly tablet. The iPad…
Steve Jobs built Apple on the idea that hardware and software had to be designed as one thing, inseparable and mutually reinforcing. Tim Cook, who…
The spring inside a conventional keychain carabiner is arguably the least-considered component in everyday carry, a tiny coiled wire doing the same job it has…
The transformable furniture category has an ugliness problem.The transformable furniture category has an ugliness problem. Murphy beds wear their utilitarian origins on their sleeve, all…
LEGO has built some genuinely spectacular ships over the years. The 9,090-piece Titanic stretches over 135 centimeters and splits into three sections to reveal a…