These $90 Cover Plates turn your PS5 into an Xbox-ish Monolith with much better thermals
We called the PS5 the most beautiful console in the world on reveal day in 2020, and I still mostly mean it. Yujin Morisawa’s shell…
Product Design
5 Pens and Notebooks That Make Handwriting Feel Worth It Again
Nobody really chooses a pen. They use whatever is closest and hasn’t run dry. Most of us spend more time optimizing digital workflows than we…
The Gennai Pen SL01 Is Closer to Clockwork Than Stationery
Press a button on most pens, and you get ink. Press the lever on the Gennai Pen SL01, though, and you get mechanical theater instead….
Tom Pearson’s Riveted Furniture Makes the Limits of a Workshop Visible
The name is a provocation, not an audit. Tom Pearson’s debut furniture and lighting collection, shown at London’s APOC store during London Design Festival this…
Old Nike sneakers are getting shredded and recycled into sustainable gym flooring
Every sneaker eventually dies, and most of them die badly, tossed into a landfill where the rubber outsole will outlive everyone who ever wore it….
5 Things Samsung’s Galaxy Z Fold8 Does Better Than Apple’s iPhone Duo
Apple’s first foldable was always going to be a spectacle, and the iPhone Duo delivered. Titanium frame, a hinge built from over 100 components, a…
5 Best Coffee Gadgets & Tools Built for People Who Take Their Morning Seriously
The morning ritual is one of the few parts of the day that still belongs entirely to you. Before the notifications, the meetings, the noise,…
While Most TVs Go Off, the Hisense CanvasTV Switches to Art
A television that spends most of its life pretending to be a painting sounds like a gimmick, until you stand in front of one. The…
3 Tailgating Gadgets That Make Game Day Feel Like Home
The parking lot is the wrong frame for tailgating. The better one is the living room, relocated and weather-dependent, but organized around the same core…
Flashlights Usually Don’t Have Personalities, Olight’s Oclip 2 Ultra Kind of Does
Flashlights do not usually have personalities. They turn on, they turn off, and that is the extent of the relationship. Olight’s Oclip line has spent…
These Oakley x Spiderman unofficial sunglasses are cooler than any smart wearable ever made
There is a piece of Spider-Man trivia that has floated around fan forums for years, the kind of claim that gets repeated so often it…
Apple may launch a “Watch Air” screen-less health tracker to compete with Whoop and Fitbit Air
For anyone who thinks Apple would never launch a screenless Watch, let me remind you of two, nay, three things. First, the iPod Shuffle –…
5 Best Space-Saving Kitchen Gadgets & Tools That Actually Earn Their Shelf Space
Most kitchen frustration is not about cooking. It is about the objects that have accumulated around the cooking: the appliances sitting unused on the counter,…
Hisense U6SF Pro Wraps a 1,200-Nit Mini LED Panel in Glare-Free Screen and $699 Price Tag
If you spent the World Cup squinting at a TV that turned every afternoon match into a reflection of your living room window, I have…
VAIO’s Multi-Flip laptop is back after a decade, and it’s not cheap
Count how many times you have flipped your convertible into tablet mode this year. I am guessing the number sits closer to zero than to…
Yoniq Made a $199 PlayStation Portal That Doesn’t Need a PlayStation
Every great gadget eventually gets a knockoff cousin. The iPod had thousands of them, those chunky no-name MP3 players with a click wheel that clicked…