A Craftsman Just Turned Dead Car Engines Into One-of-a-Kind Guitars
I’ve been thinking about this one for days. A Slovenian craftsman named Vlado Plateis is turning discarded car engine heads into fully playable electric guitars,…
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CRKD Just Built a $135 Guitar Controller Around a Real Gibson Les Paul
Rhythm games went through a period where they were everywhere, then went quiet, and now they’re back in a way that feels more persistent than…
Olivia Rodrigo’s New LEGO Collection Hides Loads of Easter Eggs, Just Like Her Music Videos
Heartbreak made Olivia Rodrigo famous, then rage made her interesting. SOUR arrived as a teenage gut-punch of betrayal and longing, all trembling ballads and bedroom…
The 21.5-Inch Transparent Speaker That Animates Lyrics to Match Your Music
Most home speakers today have settled into a comfortable invisibility. Whether they’re slim soundbars pushed against a wall or cylindrical mesh towers parked on a…
Enya Just Made a Guitar Anyone Can Play for $199
Most of us have a complicated relationship with music-making. We admire people who can pick up an instrument and just… play. We’ve maybe even tried…
This Brutalist Vinyl Turntable Hides the Tonearm So Well It Feels Like a Massive CD Deck
For something built to play vinyl, the PP-1 barely behaves like a turntable at all. There’s no tonearm visually staking its claim across the platter,…
This B&O Headphone Concept Fits Only You, Literally, and It’s the Best Idea Audio Has Had in Years
Bang & Olufsen built its reputation on the idea that audio equipment should be worthy of the spaces it inhabits. Bas Kamp’s ONCE concept takes…
Love Hultén Built a Pink Floyd Prism Guitar You Can Actually Play
The equilateral triangle is one of the most psychologically loaded forms in Western visual culture. It appears on currency, on occult diagrams, on the cover…
Hermès Just Built a DJ Table in Mahogany and Cowhide
If you told me five years ago that Hermès would release a DJ table, I’d have assumed it was a joke told at a fashion…
Linkin Park’s Hybrid Theory Turns 26 and this LEGO Brickset Pays the Perfect Tribute
There is a generation of people for whom Hybrid Theory was the first album that felt like it was speaking directly to them. Released in…
Fosi’s $150 Headphone Amp Snaps to Your iPhone Instead of Dangling
The dongle DAC has become a familiar but awkward sight plugged into the bottom of a smartphone, a small reminder that the headphone jack didn’t…
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…