Rose Gold did not just sell iPhones. It rewired the consumer electronics industry’s entire relationship with color, spawning a decade of blush-tinted Samsung flagships, Beats…
Only 36 Ferrari 250 GTOs were ever built between 1962 and 1964, and one of them sold privately for $70 million in 2018. The body…
Somewhere in your home, there’s likely a camera that used to mean something. A Nikon FM2 inherited from a parent, a Canon AE-1 found at…
Google just announced Googlebook. Not to be confused with Google Books, which is a separate Google service (even though if you search for Googlebook in…
Transparency in tech has followed the classic arc of any design trend: radical, then referential, then mainstream, then meaningful. Nothing made it radical. Dozens of…
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A Red Dot Design Award and a $210,000 Kickstarter campaign are two very different kinds of validation. One comes from a jury of design professionals…
Seven years is a strange unit of time. Long enough to finish a PhD, short enough to remember an event vividly, and apparently, exactly long…
For a decade, the smart shower category was essentially a thermostatic valve with an app stapled to it. Not particularly useful unless you consider “Hey…
EDC and stationery have been moving closer together for years. Pens became precision objects. Rulers became desk jewelry. Pocket tools started borrowing the language of…
Every major tech conference eventually finds its thesis statement. CES landed on “everything is connected.” SXSW staked out culture-meets-technology. BEYOND Expo‘s thesis for 2026 is…
The open-source community has a long history of doing more with abandoned hardware than the original manufacturers ever did. The PSP got emulators Sony never…
You currently have two options if you want to apply effects and filters to your photos: use an app that will inevitably harvest your data…
The George Foreman Grill sold more than a hundred million units, which tells you everything about how badly people want to cook without the setup,…
Apple has never been the company you turn to when you need a laptop on a budget. For decades, the entry ticket to macOS meant…
Fighter pilots have had heads-up displays since the 1950s, because asking a human to look down at instruments while traveling at 600 miles per hour…