This Umbrella Has Solar Panels… And It Doubles As An Emergency Power Bank
Every time you open an umbrella, you’re deploying a canopy of wasted real estate. That dark stretched fabric sits between you and the sun, absorbing…
After 6 Years, Google Finally Remembered To Launch A New Smart Speaker, This Time with Gemini Built-in
The Nest Audio came out in September 2020. If you bought one that fall, you were probably still navigating pandemic grocery runs and wondering when…
Get Ready for the Tiny Home Backlash
The tiny home showed up at exactly the right time. Post-2008, when the American Dream had basically become a meme, a whole generation watched housing…
This Clever Attachment Turns Your Power Rack Into a Full Body Home Gym With 20+ Exercises
There are two kinds of home gym gear in the world. One category gets bought with optimism, posed with for a week, then quietly graduates…
This 1,444-Brick LEGO Zootopia Set Is Everything Disney Should Have Built Years Ago
The buddy-cop genre has given us some iconic duos over the decades. Riggs and Murtaugh. Turner and Hooch. Axel Foley and basically everyone who had…
5 Reasons Your Kitchen’s Range Hood Is Already Obsolete
Steam rises at roughly one metre per second. A range hood, mounted anywhere from 60 to 90 centimetres above the cooktop, is waiting near the…
Atari’s 1980 Arcade Classic Just Became a Limited Edition Automatic Watch
Gaming and watchmaking have been circling each other for years, trading collaborations that usually land somewhere between cynical and forgettable. The Hamilton x Call of…
Oppo Made A MagSafe Display Accessory That Lets You Take Better Selfies With Your Rear Camera
The rear camera has always been the better camera. That has been true for over a decade. Every benchmark, every low-light comparison, every zoom test…
A Biodegradable Rapid Test for Microplastics in the Human Body Just Got a Real Design
The images from the pandemic were hard to forget. Surgical masks tangled in mangroves, disposable gloves floating past fishing boats, lateral flow tests piling into…
This Grungy Metal Case turns your iPhone 17 Pro into an iPod Classic
The original iPod (even the iPhone) was designed to scratch. Contrary to the idea of Steve Jobs and Jony Ive chasing perfection, the idea behind…
The $429 PhantomX Watch Has Four Rotating Arms That Tell Time Like a $50,000 URWERK
URWERK builds watches that cost as much as a compact car. The Geneva-based studio has spent decades engineering satellite hour complications, where orbiting arms carry…
The $4,499 ASUS Gaming Laptop With Two Full Screens Will Make You Question Every Laptop You’ve Owned
Dual-screen laptops have been ASUS’s long game. The Zenbook Duo spent several years proving that two displays could coexist for productivity users before the form…