A “Social Only” Smartphone inspired by the iPod lets you like, share, and scroll using hardware buttons
Go ahead and open your screen-time and see what the most-used apps are. Mine, by far, are Instagram and YouTube. Tik-tok’s blocked where I live,…
Keen’s Zero-Glue Shoe Uses A Cord-Cage To Hold Itself Together, And Can Be Repaired By Swapping Parts
The footwear industry runs on glue. Something like 30 billion pairs of shoes get manufactured globally each year, and nearly all of them rely on…
This Wireless Gaming Controller Splits Apart To Reveal Its Cartridge Slot
Imagine a Nintendo Switch without a screen. Just two Joy-Cons that click together for wireless gaming. Now imagine that was it. That was the product….
Someone Finally Built the Hollywood Sign Out of LEGO and It Actually Slaps
Every year, roughly ten million tourists visit Los Angeles specifically to photograph a sign they will never get closer than a few hundred meters to….
Three Buttons, Infinite Functions: Inside the Agentic AI Keypad That Adapts To Your Workflow
Here’s what happens when you join a Zoom call right now: you click the link, wait for the app to launch, find the mute button,…
Bosch and ECOVACS Built a Robot Vacuum That Hides Inside Your Kitchen Cabinet… Finally!
ECOVACS has been pushing robot vacuum technology forward for years, from their bagless X11 OmniCyclone to various innovations in navigation and mopping systems. Bosch has…
Smeg’s Air Fryer Comes With A Steam Function For Food That’s Crispy Outside and Juicy Inside
I was today years old when I learnt that Smeg’s origins were in enamel technology, not the gorgeously colorful kitchen appliances we’ve known them for…
LOOPGEAR’s Dual-Beam 5000 Lumen EDC Flashlight Also Doubles As A 12V Laptop Power Bank
Flashlight manufacturers love to brag about lumen counts, but raw output means very little when the beam profile can’t match the task at hand. A…
PITAKA Is Letting the World Design Its Next Phone Cases, Royalties Included. Here’s How To Participate
Tech accessories have hit a curious inflection point. The last year trained us to worship thinness and glass, but somewhere between the tenth identical ‘Air’…
If Fidget Spinners Were Furniture: This Marble Table Has a Brass Sphere You Push Around Endlessly
Furniture should probably stay still. That’s the basic contract between you and the table: it holds your dinner plates, you don’t worry about physics. Alessio…
Skoda’s Inflatable Car Installation at Milan Design Week Looks Like a Bouncy Castle Grew Wheels
Cars belong to the world of hard surfaces, precision tolerances, and engineering constraints measured in fractions of millimeters. Ulises Studio works in the opposite direction….
Electrolux and Veneta Cucine Use Biophilic Color Science to Rethink Kitchen Design at Milan 2026
Scandinavian winters keep people indoors for roughly six months a year, which gives Swedish designers a lot of time to think about what a kitchen…
Miele’s Smart Utensils Can Detect When Food Is Burning And Power Your Induction Hob Down
A watched pot may never boil, but an unwatched one seems to do so with a special kind of enthusiasm. That familiar kitchen truth highlights…
This Electrolux dishwasher lifts its bottom rack so you can load pots without bending down
At some point, the bottom rack of a dishwasher stops being a minor inconvenience and starts being a genuine daily difficulty. For older adults and…
The Brightest EDC Flashlight of 2026 packs 12,300 Lumens, Active Cooling, and Still Fits in Your Pocket
EDC gear is converging. The knife becomes a multitool, the multitool becomes a bit driver, the bit driver becomes a pry bar, and somewhere in…
Moooi’s 25th Anniversary Monster Chairs Have Hand-Embroidered Creatures on Every Backrest
When Marcel Wanders designed the Monster Chair in 2014, the “monster” part was mostly conceptual. The piece had presence, sure, with its quilted leather upholstery…