Goldmund’s $500,000 Amp Is as Much a Sculpture as It Is a Machine
High-end audio amplifiers tend to get bigger, heavier, and more expensive in the pursuit of performance headroom that most recordings will never fully demand. The…
Luxury
People Are Putting This $3,000 Toilet on Their Wedding Registry
The toilet is one of those objects we use every single day, and yet it has somehow remained completely untouched by the design revolution sweeping…
Ex-McLaren Designers Just Built a $130,000 Carbon Fiber Chair
Luxury furniture has long borrowed the language of high-performance design without much of the substance behind it. Carbon fiber panels get applied as surface decoration,…
Ross Lovegrove’s Hi-Fi Speakers Look Like River Pebbles, Stream 384 kHz Audio
Ross Lovegrove has spent his whole career convinced that nature already nailed industrial design and humans are just slow to catch up. His portfolio backs…
A Walnut and Brass Desktop PC That Still Runs an RTX 5090
The PC industry has spent decades optimizing for a buyer who tolerates ugly hardware. Not a buyer who wants it, necessarily, but one who accepts…
Rolls-Royce Firmament Concept Turns the Hood Into a Meteor Shower Chasing the Spirit of Ecstasy
Every shooting star you have ever wished on was actually dying. What looks like a streak of pure light tearing across the sky is a…
Blackwing’s $400 Crate Is Every Writer’s Dream Gift Set
Pencils don’t usually make people emotional. But Blackwing pencils have always been a little different. The brand, which revived the legendary Blackwing 602 after its…
Bang & Olufsen Finally Made a Power Bank Worth Showing Off
Power banks are among the most purchased tech accessories around, yet they’re rarely something anyone is proud to pull out in public. Most are plastic…
The Sculptural Speaker Concept That Sounds Good From Every Spot in the Room
Most wireless speakers look like speakers. They announce themselves with grilles and ports and branding, and they tend to disappear into a corner or a…
C Seed’s Sculptural Bugatti N1 folding TV carries dynamic flair of the Tourbillon supercar
Modern display technologies have come a long way in the last couple of decades, and so have the viewing experiences. Talking of the latter, no…
ROG Just Made Gaming Peripherals You’d Actually Put on Display
Gaming peripherals have gradually crossed from purely functional tools into design objects that enthusiasts keep, display, and collect alongside their builds. Limited-edition anniversary hardware has…
KLH’s $1,000 Floorstanding Speaker Actually Fits in Your Apartment
Serious hi-fi speakers have long demanded a certain kind of listener, one with a dedicated room, a generously sized space, and the freedom to place…