The first LEGO Dragon Ball set is here, and Shenron costs $180
LEGO has been making anime for about fifteen years now, it just never bothered to license any. Ninjago is a spiky-haired ensemble of teenage martial…
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.
LEGO has been making anime for about fifteen years now, it just never bothered to license any. Ninjago is a spiky-haired ensemble of teenage martial…
Dieter Rams famously said good design is honest. With all due respect to Dieter, Matt from DIY Perks has built something that lies through its…
I don’t want to be the one to call you out on a fine Wednesday morning, but your tech bag is a mess. You’ve got…
The walkie-talkie has had the same design problem since WWII: great up close, a plastic brick the moment you’re out of range. Bluetooth mesh updated…
Airplane seats are designed for exactly one thing: fitting as many humans as possible into a metal tube. Comfort comes a distant second, and sleep…
Honor apparently looked at a movie camera from 1937 and thought, yeah, let’s build for that. The Magic9’s camera module borrows its arrangement from ARRI’s…
WIKO started in Marseille, spent a decade making budget Androids, got acquired by a Chinese telecom group in 2021, found its way into Huawei’s retail…
Remember when wireless phone chargers felt like magic? Set your phone down, it charges, no fumbling with a cable in the dark. Somebody at Kitchenery…
The Zippo lighter has been in pockets since 1932, surviving wars, road trips, and at least a few questionable life decisions. The iconic snap of…
Have you noticed tilting always makes things ‘ergonomic’? A laptop stand tilts the keyboard towards you – ergonomic. A vertical mouse tilts your hands into…
If the name MetMo rings a bell, that’s because this small Leeds outfit has built its reputation out of taking old mechanical ideas nobody else…
Every city has one view that ends up on the fridge magnets, and San Francisco settled that argument a long time ago. It’s the row…
I distinctly remember the Wolverine game hype. It’s quite literally why I bought a PS5… well, that and GTA VI. And then September rolled around,…
Fifty one years. That’s how long Wish You Were Here has been sitting in the canon, selling something like 20 million copies, topping the charts…
Amsterdam gets around 1,600 hours of sunshine a year. Los Angeles gets close to 2,500. Anne Berends spent years feeling that difference, which is a…
Here’s a fun rule of thumb: the less effort something takes to use, the more effort someone spent making sure it works. Good waiters make…