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Sarang is the co-editor in chief of Yanko Design. He is a former industrial designer at a Bangalore-based multidisciplinary design studio, working in areas including appliances, FMCG, packaging, technology, luxury, etc. Sarang has written about design and technology for over a decade and has been a jury member on international design awards. He occasionally works on tech concepts featured on Forbes, The Verge, Hypebeast, Digital Trends, SlashGear, Tom's Guide, LetsGoDigital, and Unbox Therapy. Sarang graduated from MIT Institute of Design, Pune.

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…

Artificial Intelligence, Audio, Product Design

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…

Architecture, Editorial
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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…

Accessories, Deals, Product Design

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…

Popular, Product Design, Toys

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…

Appliances, Kitchen, Product Design

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…

Gaming, Product Design, Watches
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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…

Gadgets, Phones, Product Design
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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…

Medical, Product Design
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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…

Phones, Product Design
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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…

Deals, Product Design, Watches
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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…

Laptops, Product Design
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Translation, Prompting, Agentic AI, all in 40 grams: iFLYTEK’s Smart Glasses Debut at BEYOND Expo 2026

Beyond Expo 2026 arrived with a clear message for the tech world, AI has moved past the screen and into the objects people wear, hold,…

AR / VR, Artificial Intelligence, Events, Product Design
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This $39 Titanium Knife Weighs Less Than An AirPods Case And Is Built To Last Forever (Literally)

A phone does a bunch of things – it clicks photos, it sends/receives emails, it tells you the weather, it also plays music. There’s a…

Deals, EveryDayCarry, Product Design
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No Vision Pro 2 Before 2028. Apple’s Focusing On Smart-Glasses Instead, says Gurman

Meta’s Ray-Ban smart glasses sold over 7 million units in 2025, a number that would have seemed improbable two years earlier when the category barely…

AR / VR, Fashion, Product Design
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This B&O Headphone Concept Fits Only You, Literally, and It’s the Best Idea Audio Has Had in Years

Bang & Olufsen built its reputation on the idea that audio equipment should be worthy of the spaces it inhabits. Bas Kamp’s ONCE concept takes…

Audio, Music
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Bolt-Action Titanium Pen Packs a Magnetic Blade, Glass Breaker, and Bit Driver Into A 32-Gram Package

Bolt-action pens command a fanbase that splits neatly into two camps. There are the fidget enthusiasts, the ones who cycle the bolt compulsively mid-conversation and…

Accessories, Deals, EveryDayCarry, Product Design, Stationery
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