4 New AEG Launches That Are Betting You Never Want to Babysit an Appliance Again
How we think about home appliances is shifting, and AEG leaned into it at IFA 2026 in Berlin spectacularly. We witnessed four new products, two…
Product Design
A Clock That Refuses to Just Tell You the Time
I check the time roughly forty times a day, and I couldn’t tell you what any of those glances felt like. A phone screen lights…
We Held The World’s Thinnest Portable SSD at IFA 2026: Hands-on With The Lexar Muse
Here is a fun little irony nobody asked for. The same AI boom that is making your laptop smarter is also making storage more expensive…
What Happens When Bauhaus Meets a Pizza Oven? AEG Just Showed Us At IFA 2026
Ask four designers what Bauhaus means and you will get six or seven answers, depending on how passionate the designers are. AEG leaned into exactly…
Floating Lamps, Pet Phones, and Printers That Print On Ripped Paper: The Weird Wonderful Gadgets At IFA 2026
If you’ve ever spent more time picking a keyboard switch than you spent picking your last laptop, this roundup is partly for you. If you’ve…
9 Desk Upgrades for a Fresh Semester, or Just a Fresh Start at Work
The desk is the one surface in your life that shows exactly where your head is. Cluttered means overwhelmed. Bare means uninspired. Getting it right…
This Macintosh-Inspired Hub Adds SSD Storage, Ports, Shortcuts, and a Mini Screen: Hands-on at IFA 2026
Everything on my desk right now is some shade of gray aluminum, and I’m starting to resent it a little. Every dock, every stand, every…
Fresh Plant Milk and Tofu From Scratch? Nuvell’s Tabletop Kitchen Appliance Does Both: Hands-on at IFA 2026
I will admit it outright, I have never once thought about how tofu gets made, the same way most people never think about how gasoline…
5 Lamps Designed for Homes That Don’t Have Room for a Regular Light Fixture
Lighting has evolved beyond basic illumination and has become a flexible, interactive element in modern spaces. As interiors become more compact and multifunctional, designers are…
IFA 2026’s Best Just Declared War on Tech Trade-Offs
Every gadget seems to come with a built-in apology. Buy the powerful one and the battery dies fast. Buy the pretty one, and it underperforms….
PITAKA Turned a Berlin Bunker Into a Wheat Field For Their New Aramid Case Collection at IFA 2026
There is a long gold tapestry cascading down a concrete bunker wall in Berlin right now, and it feels nothing like what it is actually…
5 ADU Accessories That Make 400 Square Feet Feel Like 1,000
An accessory dwelling unit forces a kind of honesty most homes never require. Every object either earns its spot within days, or it becomes clutter…
An AI Gave Me A Full-Body Massage: Hands-on with DaVinci AI Pro Massage Chair at IFA 2026
Somewhere out there is a bingo card of jobs AI would come for, and I guarantee nobody had masseuse on it. AI has already eaten…
Sylvox Made A Bezel-less 75″ Outdoor TV That Plays 4K Movies In Rain, Sun, and Snow: Hands-on at IFA 2026
An outdoor TV isn’t really judged by its screen, it’s judged by everything protecting the screen. Sunlight readability, a sealed chassis, and an operating range…
Laifen Just Made Flawless Grooming Stupidly Easy (No Skill Required)
We live in an era of life hacks, a time when everyone wants the best possible results with the least amount of fuss. We want…
Smart Glasses, Robot Dogs, AI Tamagotchis, and Desk-Sized Supercomputers: How IFA 2026 Redefined Robots
The creator economy reshaped who makes content, and then quietly reshaped what tools are worth building. When millions of people are shooting, editing, scanning, and…