Mac mini M5 May Get Skipped Entirely as Apple Tests M6 and M5 Pro Combo
Feeling like you’ve heard this before? You sort of have. Last year Apple quietly shipped a Mac Studio with mismatched M4 Max and M3 Ultra…
Product Design
7 Best Japanese Designs of August 2026
Japanese design doesn’t arrive loudly. It earns attention through material weight, mechanical silence, or the way a surface catches light in a room you’ve stopped…
This $549 QWERTY Android Phone Was Built to Give You Your Day Back
Smartphones have never been smarter, but they’ve also never been more demanding. Bigger screens, algorithmic feeds, and relentless notifications aren’t design oversights. They’re deliberate, built…
A Designer Curled a Single Sheet of Aluminum Like Paper to Make a Grater That Fits Perfectly in Your Palm
Most graters are a negotiation. The box grater comes out, takes up half the counter, threatens your knuckles on every pass, and goes back in…
The Pixel 11’s Coolest New Feature Is Actually 10 Years Old
The Pixel 11 lineup arrived this week with a genuinely great redesign. The camera bar is 40 percent thinner, the glass runs edge to edge,…
Google’s Pixel Tag is making the same ‘boring’ design mistake that Apple, Samsung, and Xiaomi made
The Pixel Tag comes in exactly one color, a grey green called Fog, wrapped around stainless steel with a G logo stamped right on the…
5 Best Back-to-Work EDC Upgrades That Actually Make Carrying Less Feel Like More
Summer does a reliable job of exposing what is wrong with your carry. Thinner clothes mean shallower pockets, and whatever has been accumulating since January…
This tiny $74 device turns an old tablet into a smart dashboard for cars that never had one
Somewhere in your house right now, there is a perfectly good iPad/Android Pad doing absolutely nothing. Maybe it is the one you replaced two years…
Sony’s Wolverine PS5 Comes in Two Very Different Designs, and Only One Feels Worth the Price
Sony has a pattern with these limited edition consoles now. Announce a big first party or Marvel game, dress up a PS5 to match, sell…
A $160 Japanese Everyday Carry Card Holder Designed to Disappear Into the Breast Pocket of a Blazer
The business card holder is one of those objects the design world quietly decided was finished. A flat rectangle of leather or metal, room enough…
JBL Pulse 6 portable speaker is also an ambient lamp designed to set the mood anywhere, anytime
A Bluetooth speaker usually asks you to choose between sound and atmosphere. JBL’s new Pulse 6 is designed to make that choice feel unnecessary. Wrapped…
Roca’s New Bathtub Turns Recycled PET Bottles Into Sculptural Bathroom Design
The plastic bottles in your recycling bin have a surprisingly glamorous potential future. Roca’s Stonex material includes recycled PET resin, and the expanded Ohtake collection…
5 Japanese Pens & Notebooks So Beautifully Made You’ll Never Want to Type Again
There is a specific quality to well-made Japanese stationery that is difficult to name and easy to recognize. It is not about price or brand…
This Rooftop Tent Has a Skylight, a Ladder, LED Lighting, and deploys with a button.
Most rooftop tents still act like tents. You climb in, you’re surrounded by fabric, you sleep, you leave. The Sky Cruiser is going for something…
7 Packaging Designs That Dissolve, Compost, or Actually Feed You – Plastic’s Replacement Is Here
Plastic has long been the default choice for packaging because of its durability, flexibility, and low cost. Today, however, designers are proving that high-performance packaging…
iPhone Ultra Leak Confirms the $2,000 Device Might Ship Without a Zoom Lens
Apple’s foldable iPhone is shaping up to be the most expensive iPhone in the company’s history, and possibly the first flagship in years to skip…