IFA CEO Leif Lindner: This Year Isn’t About Cool Demos. It’s About Robots That Actually Work
Berlin does this every September, and it never stops being slightly overwhelming. IFA 2026 runs September 4 to 8 across 27 halls at Messe Berlin,…
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The 1960s Conversation Pit Is Back, and Milan Can’t Get Enough
If you walked through Alcova at Milan Design Week this past April, odds are you found yourself gravitating toward a large green seating installation that…
Xiaomi Takes the IFA 2026 Spotlight as Samsung Makes A Quiet Exit After 35 Years
Imagine spending 35 years building the most recognizable booth at the world’s biggest consumer electronics show, then deciding one year to just… not. That is…
London’s Barbican Now Has Furniture You’re Allowed to Move
Most public spaces don’t trust you. They’re designed to move you through them efficiently, seat you for a limited time, or keep you from lingering…
A Bell-Powered Playground for Collective Listening
French artist Céleste Boursier-Mougenot is widely known for uncovering the musical potential of objects and materials that were never intended to function as instruments. Rather…
The Floating House Built From Strangers’ Wishes
Most houses start with a blueprint. Jisoo Yoo’s Dream House started with a question: how do the dreams and desires we carry shape the landscape…
China Just Built a Mirrored Heart at the Lake Called ‘The Last Tear
Sayram Lake sits in a remote corner of Xinjiang, China, at an altitude that makes the air feel thinner and the colors feel brighter. It’s…
China’s New Coastal Installation Looks Like It Belongs in Space
Not every art installation earns the right to exist in a landscape. Most feel like intrusions, objects dropped into nature rather than grown from it….
The Fortune Teller Just Got an AI Upgrade and It Knows Too Much
Remember the movie Big? Tom Hanks, the carnival Zoltar machine, a kid who just wanted to grow up overnight. That film had a way of…
Public Art Stands Still, This Steel House Lets You Slide It Apart
Public art installations in parks have a familiar relationship with the people passing through them. They hold a fixed position, a fixed meaning, and a…
A Moss-Covered Payphone Just Became the Voice of 2147
Picture a payphone. Not a sleek, reimagined version, just an actual, beat-up Telefónica booth, the kind you might walk past on a Barcelona street without…
The Smart Home Trend of 2026 Is Surprisingly “Emotional Intelligence”
Trade shows usually reward the loudest promise in the room. Faster. Smarter. Smaller. Cheaper. Shenzhen’s Global Connect Show had plenty of that, but one image…
This Bright Yellow Kinetic Sculpture in London Is Meant to Be Walked Through
There are artworks you look at, and there are artworks you walk through. Jesús Rafael Soto understood the difference better than almost anyone. The Venezuelan…
The Hague Just Turned Air Into Its Most Exciting Museum
The Hague is not the first city you’d expect to reinvent what a museum looks like. But from May 22 to June 21, 2026, it…
KEENON Humanoid Pours Drinks at GCS 2026, 100,000 Others Run Hotels
The robotics industry has a curious reputation problem. The machines getting the most attention, walking bipeds that do backflips, aren’t the ones driving real business…
Every Robot You’ll Ever Own Has 3 Separate Brains: Nvidia VP explains how AI Thinks at BEYOND Expo 2026
A robot on a factory floor may look self-contained, but Deepu Talla says its intelligence is distributed across a hidden chain of machines. At BEYOND…