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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Remember When Rose Gold Took Over Everything? Apple Is Trying That Again With Dark Cherry
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…
This Designer’s Ferrari SC250 Concept Takes the Legendary 250 GTO to Its Logical Extreme
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…
Your Old Film Camera Can Now Shoot 4K Video and 26MP RAW Files Without Any Modifications. Here’s How.
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 a laptop with the worst possible name… and it’s filled with AI
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…
Tame Impala’s Kevin Parker Co-Designed a Synth So Good It’s Now a Collector’s Item
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…
SHARPAL’s Credit Card Knife Sharpener Is the EDC Accessory You Didn’t Know You Were Missing
The most carried EDC is also, statistically, the most neglected one. Pocket knives get used daily and sharpened almost never, because the sharpening step requires…
This 4-in-1 Hands-free Flashlight Clips To Clothes, Snaps to Your Phone, and Stands on Its Own
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…