This Mod Made a Steam Machine Faceplate Charge Your Steam Controller
The Steam Machine has swappable faceplates, which is a genuinely good idea that Valve doesn’t appear to have fully exploited. The concept is essentially that…
Accessories
This Umbrella Is Actually a 500-Year-Old Korean Hat in Disguise
Anyone who has seen K-Pop Demon Hunters or an episode of a Korean historical drama is familiar with what a gat is. Even if you…
The $33 Box That Locks Your Phone and Judges You for Opening It Early
Screen time management has spawned an entire industry of apps, built-in focus modes, notification filters, and weekly usage reports that most people glance at and…
The Sunglasses Built for When You’re Actually in the Water
Every summer, I do the same thing. I bring my sunglasses to the beach, spend twenty minutes deciding where to put them once I get…
Camera Batteries Go Missing, So This $70 One Tracks Itself
Camera batteries are one of those accessories that photographers never think about until something goes wrong. They’re small enough to vanish into the bottom of…
A Coin-Sized Disc Just Reinvented the Multi-Tool Nobody Could Fix
The multi-tool has been around long enough that most people have developed a frustrated relationship with it. You carry one because having a blade, a…
Khadas Just Made a $199 Amp That Snaps to Your iPhone Like a Wallet
Portable audio has long been a game of compromise. DAC dongles give you a modest step up from your phone’s built-in output, but connect anything…
Every single curve on this coffee dripper has a job, from preserving heat to guiding flow
Most coffee nerds can tell you the difference between a bean from Colombia and one from Ghana, or even one from Brazil, without hesitation. Some…
A Designer Just Answered Facial Recognition With a Medieval Visor
Facial recognition has become one of the fastest-growing forms of infrastructure in public life. Cameras in airports, transit systems, retail spaces, and city streets capture…
This Damascus Steel compact EDC knife packs two sliders into a 0.6-inch body
Double sliders in a pocket EDC tool? That’s not something you see often, mostly because fitting two independent sliding mechanisms into a body small enough…
Artefilo Makes Home Objects From Elephant Grass and Hospital Cabinets
The sustainable home goods market has a specific credibility problem. Products marketed as eco-conscious often get there through incremental adjustments, reducing a percentage of virgin…
This Pen Case and Desk Stand Are the Same Object, and It’s Magnetic
The pen case is one of those objects that nobody seems to have genuinely rethought. The standard design is a zippered pouch: pens go in,…