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      CLPR-01 Does for Calipers What Swiss Army Did for Knives
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      A $599 Robot Dog That Fits on Your Desk and Works Like LEGO Technic
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      The $146 Await camera brings back the disposable with 24 photos per roll, so every shot counts
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      A $55 Camera Secretly Disguised as a Roll of 35mm Film
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      Someone Fixed Jaguar’s Type 01 With An Aggressive Sports Body Kit
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      This Tiny Home Looks Like a Coastal Cottage and Lives Like One Too
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      This Thames-Side House Rises With Floodwater Instead of Fighting It
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      The Café That Refuses to Take the Scaffolding Down
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      This $59 Cork Wallet Makes Your Overstuffed Bifold Look Embarrassing
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      This Concept Lab Treats Its Black Hole the Way Others Treat a Skylight
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      BirdVue: The World’s First 4G Smart Bird Feeder Finally Lets You Watch Birds Where They Actually Live
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Sarang Sheth

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.

Close-up of a metal mechanical device with a colorful numbered wheel on top, mounted on a silver frame; a circuit board and tools are visible in the background.

This Game-Changing Bench Vise Tilts, Rotates, Locks in Three Modes, and Costs $239

Bench vises have long been built around one assumption: the work stays put, and the maker adapts. AxiGlide inverts that. With full 360-degree rotation paired…

Accessories, Deals, Featured, Product Design
LEGO-style winged warrior in red and white holds a tall red staff before a gray wall that reads 'Hybrid Theory'.

Linkin Park’s Hybrid Theory Turns 26 and this LEGO Brickset Pays the Perfect Tribute

There is a generation of people for whom Hybrid Theory was the first album that felt like it was speaking directly to them. Released in…

Music, Product Design, Toys
Modern grey air fryer open with a fish fillet inside; surrounding it are dishes like pizza, fried chicken, and a seafood plate on a kitchen counter.

Xiaomi’s $80 Air Fryer Can Steam, Sous Vide, and Air Fry, Giving You A Crisp Outside and Juicy Inside

There is a reason professional bakers spray water into their ovens right before a loaf goes in. Steam in the early stages of baking keeps…

Appliances, Product Design
Top-down view of a silver Ferrari sports car on a gray tiled surface, highlighting its low, aerodynamic shape and open cockpit.

Ferrari Made One Last Non-Hybrid V8 Spider Before The Brand Hands Its Future To Jony Ive

Two Ferraris arrived within months of each other in early 2026, and they could not be more different in what they represent. The Luce, Ferrari’s…

Automotive
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24x Optical Zoom on an iPhone, Balanced Like a DSLR. REEFLEX’s 600mm Lens Is Brilliantly Absurd.

Zoom has won. Of all the specs that used to dominate camera phone conversations, optical reach is the one that stuck because it is the…

Cameras, Deals, Phones, Product Design
Podcast cover for Episode 22: The Future of Design Starts With Clay Not AI, featuring a grayscale sketched portrait of a smiling man against a blue circular background; YD Anko Design logo bottom right.

This Futuristic 3D-Printed Shoe Started as a Clay Sculpture

Yanko Design’s Design Mindset podcast continues to carve out a thoughtful space for conversations around creativity, innovation, and the ideas shaping the future of design….

Fashion, Podcast, Product Design
Pink retro-style keyboard with rounded keys held in a person's hands; a stylish vintage computer accessory against a dark background.

Lofree Just Made the Most Eye-Candy Mechanical Keyboard of 2026 and It’s Inspired by Lipstick

Your desk says something about you before you ever open your mouth. The monitor, the mug, the little objects arranged around your keyboard, they all…

Deals, Fashion, Gadgets, Product Design
Bright green two‑seat convertible sports car on a showroom stage, with a woman in a light blazer standing to the left.

BYD’s Boxy Off-Road Brand Just Built an ‘Anti-Minimalist’ 1,000-HP Supercar

Rest in peace, minimalism. You were hated with a vengeance by every car owner forced to jab at a touchscreen just to change the AC….

Automotive
Two handheld gimbal cameras with built-in screens, Oppo on the left and Vivo on the right, in a studio setup.

Oppo and Vivo Are Both Building Gimbal Cameras To Take On DJI’s Osmo Pocket Series

Somewhere inside BBK Electronics, two product teams are independently building the same camera. Oppo has a pocket gimbal codenamed “Fuyao” in development. Vivo has the…

Cameras, Product Design
Colorful illuminated balloon animal sculpture shaped like a dog, with rainbow lights on a round pedestal.

Lexon Turned Jeff Koons’ Most Famous Sculpture Into The Coolest Statement Lamp You Can Actually Own

Transforming Jeff Koons’ Balloon Dog into a fully functional lamp required more than good intentions and a licensing agreement. For French design/tech atelier Lexon, more…

Accessories, Deals, Lighting, Product Design
A retro video cassette recorder built from stacked VHS tapes, labeled 'Movie' and 'Cartoon'.

This LEGO VHS Player Actually Has Cassettes You Can Insert and Remove

Before streaming queues and binge-watching algorithms rewired how we consume film and television, there was a ritual. You drove to the video store, walked the…

Gadgets, Product Design, Television
White Waymo self-driving car partially submerged in floodwater on a street in front of a beige brick building with palm trees and parked cars nearby; floodwaters cover the road and surrounding area, suggesting severe rain or storm impact.

Waymo’s Self-Driving Car Saw the Flood and Drove In Anyway. Here’s The Problem Plaguing Every Robotaxi.

Every sensor on a Waymo robotaxi sees the world in layers. The LiDAR maps it in three dimensions, radar bounces through it, and cameras read…

Automotive, Editorial
Mid-century living room with a teal armchair, glass coffee table, orange vase, and a wood sideboard with an orange lamp against pastel geometric walls.

70 Years Later, Midcentury Modern Furniture Has Still Outlasted Every Single Trend That Came After It

Seventy years on, Midcentury Modern still holds the room. Few design languages have remained so instantly legible across generations, continents, and price brackets. A teak…

Editorial, Furniture, Interiors, Product Design
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The Insta360 Go 3S Retro Bundle Is a 4K Action Camera With A Viewfinder That Lets You Shoot Like It’s 1965

The Kodak Charmera sold out repeatedly on the back of pure aesthetic energy, and Insta360 was clearly paying attention. The Go 3S Retro Bundle arrives…

Cameras, Deals
LEGO figure sitting on a bench with a brown suitcase and a red card on a tiled floor.

30 Years Later, Forrest Gump Gets the LEGO Set He Always Deserved

The bus bench scene in Forrest Gump was never supposed to be the heart of the film. It was a framing device, a structural trick…

Popular, Product Design, Toys
Compact laptop in tent/stand mode with a vivid rainbow RGB keyboard backlight on a dark desk surface, screen displaying bright colors.

This Portable Keyboard Has a 13-Inch 4K Touchscreen Built In, and It Fits in Your Laptop Sleeve

Closed, the VitaLink looks like a very flat book, silver, about the footprint of a large paperback, with nothing to suggest it carries a 4K…

Accessories, Deals, Gadgets, Product Design, Technology
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