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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.

Green Starbucks-branded storage case with a removable insert and lid, shown closed on the left and exploded on the right to reveal inner compartments.

Starbucks built a Yeti cooler for your Venti Iced Lattes, but you can’t buy one yet

You know what’s ‘vertical integration’? Starbucks building its own cooler box for its own beverages. Meet the Yeti-alternative that’s designed not for your Budweisers, but…

Packaging, Popular, Product Design
Blue tablet with a safari scene on screen: a zebra in the foreground, a monkey in a tree, and a neon-green stylus nearby.

Honor launched a $193 Kid-focused iPad Alternative with 22 Hours of Battery and Parental Controls Already Set Up

Setting up an iPad for a child costs $350 and about forty-five minutes of your life. You disable iCloud so your camera roll stays off…

Tablets
LEGO handbag built from dark blue and green bricks with a top handle and a red heart lock charm.

The Hermès Birkin Finally Has a LEGO Version and It Opens to Reveal A Secret Runway Inside

The Hermès Birkin has one of the most theatrical purchasing rituals in luxury retail. You cannot simply walk into a boutique on Rue du Faubourg…

Fashion, Luxury, Product Design, Toys
Six-port USB-C charging dock with a blue LED status panel showing per-port wattage on a rounded stand.

300W and 7 Ports: This GaN Charger Makes Every Other Multi-Port Charger Look Embarrassingly Weak

Most GaN chargers on the market right now treat 140W like a finish line. Satechi hit it with their ChargeView hub and added a wattage…

Accessories, Deals, Featured, Product Design, Technology
Folding knife with a pale green handle and gray blade lying on dark leather, with a brass CIVIVI brand plate nearby.

Tanto Blade Explained: Why the Angled Tip Dominates 2026 EDC Knives

Somewhere around the year 900 CE, a Japanese swordsmith solved a very specific problem. Samurai warriors needed a short backup blade that could function in…

Editorial, EveryDayCarry, Product Design
Split image: left side shows a gooseneck kettle pouring hot water into a conical coffee filter over a glass carafe; right side shows hands holding and separating a multi-layered, folded metal object.

This Little Coffee Tool Fixes a V60 Problem You Didn’t Know You Had

Somewhere between your gooseneck kettle and your burr grinder sits a problem nobody in the coffee gear industry bothered to productize until now. It is…

Kitchen, Product Design
Three Honor smartphones in black, white, and blue stand upright against a snowy, stormy backdrop in ice and snow.

Honor Is Building a 12,000mAh Phone That Proves the Battery-vs-Thinness Tradeoff Was Always a Lie

Seven years ago, Energizer walked into MWC 2019 with a phone that weighed as much as a small paperback novel and measured 18mm thick, all…

Phones, Product Design
LEGO mosaic of a spacecraft over a rocky desert, titled Earthset Artemis II, with four astronauts minifigures at bottom left and a satellite on the left edge

The Artemis II ‘Earthset’ Photo Is Now a LEGO Set and It Looks Incredible

On Christmas Eve 1968, astronaut Bill Anders looked out of Apollo 8’s window and saw something no human had ever seen before: Earth, whole and…

Product Design, Toys
Close-up of a smartphone's rear triple-lens camera module on a purple back, with a circular multicolor Google logo badge nearby.

Pixel 11 Leak: Tensor G6, 50MP Base Cam, and Nothing-inspired “Pixel Glow”

Every year, without fail, Google’s flagship Pixel arrives in the public consciousness twice. Once through leaks, and once through an official keynote that a significant…

Phones, Product Design
Man in a beige jacket and sunglasses walks along a sunlit urban street, carrying a large blue-and-black hiking backpack.

This $214 Modular Backpack System Zips Apart Into 3 Separate Bags You’ll Actually Want to Use

Everyone knows the problems a single travel pack brings. If you get one that will work for an epic around-the-world adventure, it’s too big for…

Accessories, Deals, Featured, Product Design

DJI FPV Goggles Concept Uses Foldable Antenna Panels to Fix Signal Reception

FPV flying is phenomenally fun and almost completely non-transferable. You’re seeing through the aircraft’s perspective, feeling every input through the video lag, reading the environment…

AR / VR, Product Design
Close-up of a hand lifting a rust-colored, hollow geometric lattice sphere with circular openings.

This Sculptural Lamp Treats Light as Secondary and its Decorative Shell as Primary

Floor lamps typically exist in your peripheral vision. They illuminate a corner, frame a reading chair, or cast ambient light from behind the couch, and…

Lighting
Two-panel product photo: left panel shows a white wearable camera; right panel shows a person wearing a white wireless earbud with a visible camera in the stem.

Apple Wants To Put A Camera In Your AirPods… To Improve Siri’s Visual Intelligence

Your earbud can read your body temperature, heart rate variability, and sleep quality. No, I’m not joking, there are TWS earbuds on the market that…

Audio, Cameras, Product Design

Meet Ultrahuman Ring Pro: Up to 15 Days Battery, No Subscription, and a Dual-Core Processor

Charging wearables has become muscle memory for many of us, and most people have accepted that their smartwatch requires almost nightly charging. But the best…

Accessories, Deals, Gadgets, Product Design, Technology
Wooden digital alarm clock on a desk shows a sunset image on its screen, with a smartphone playing music nearby.

This Tiny Sunrise Alarm Clock Replaced My Phone, My Lamp, and My White Noise Machine

Imagine a small coastal diorama sitting on your nightstand, a sculpted seascape of rocky shores and a lone sailboat frozen in miniature, and then imagine…

Audio, Lifestyle, Lighting, Product Design
LEGO telescope on a wooden tripod with gold accents against a light blue background, pointing to the right.

600 LEGO Bricks, One Gorgeous Victorian Telescope, and Four Hidden Scenes Inside the Lens

Every great adventure story needs a telescope. Horatio Hornblower snapping his glass open on the quarterdeck. Long John Silver tracking the Hispaniola from a cliff….

Product Design, Toys
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