This $899 golf launch monitor tracks your swing in 3D and tells you how to fix it
A decent golf lesson can cost anywhere from $80 to $200 an hour, but the bigger issue usually kicks in after the lesson ends. You…
Product Design
5 Camping Gear Picks Built for the Last Warm Weekends of the Year
September camping arrives with a specific quality that July doesn’t have. The mornings carry an edge, the light sits lower, and every good weekend feels…
MAKERphone 2.0 Assembles Like LEGO, Calls Like a Real 4G Phone
Most phones arrive finished, sealed behind glass before you open the box. MAKERphone 2.0 flips that script. It ships as loose parts that only become…
This Lounge Chair Is Built From Cork — and It’s Sturdier Than It Looks
Cork is everywhere in design, and yet it’s almost always decorative. A tile floor. A pin board. A wine stopper. Copenhagen-based furniture designer Chiara Verde…
Gorgeous LEGO Book Nook Has a Steam Train Blasting Straight Through Its Snowy Pages
Every kid who grew up with Chris Van Allsburg’s The Polar Express remembers that moment where the story stops behaving like a story. A train…
9 Retro Audio Gadgets Bringing Cassettes and CDs Back From the Dead
Streaming gave us convenience and took away everything else. No album art worth holding, no ritual of pressing play, no object that tells you something…
Battery-free Portable Water Sprayer Solves a Problem Beaches, Campsites, and Public Restrooms All Share
Sand is genuinely one of the most stubborn substances on earth. Anyone who’s ever come home from a beach day still gritty between their toes,…
UGREEN’s iPhone 18 Pro Case Packs An Extra Screen For That ‘iPhone Duo Effect’
Don’t worry, you don’t need to spend $1999 to gift yourself an iPhone with an extra screen. UGREEN debuted what they call the “Magic E-ink…
Pikachu Just Got Hidden Inside Your Coffee Mug, and Pokémon Fans Are Going to Lose It
Pikachu has appeared on a lot of things over the past 30 years — Alfredo Häberli’s Origo tableware wasn’t exactly the obvious next stop. Finnish…
The 5 Best Outdoor Gear of September 2026
September is where outdoor gear earns its reputation. The crowds thin, the trails go quiet, and what you carry starts to matter in ways summer…
Hisense E7SF packs MiniLED, 144Hz, and Fire TV into a seriously affordable big-screen TV
There used to be two ways to buy a TV. Go cheap and squint through a mediocre picture, or spend enough that your banking app…
This $120 Lumibricks Manga Shop Glows Like Cyberpunk Shibuya at Midnight
Anyone who has wandered Tokyo’s Nakano Broadway knows the joy of a cramped shop stacked floor to ceiling with secondhand manga. Those shops smell like…
Genius Saucepan Lid Design Sits Vertically On Your Kitchen Counter While You Cook
Cookware is one of those product categories where familiarity can easily disguise bad design. A pan heats up, a lid comes off, a handle gets…
Finally someone made a ‘Rock Guitar’ out of actual rock… And it honestly sounds good!
Almost every guitar ever made, acoustic or electric, comes from wood, which means the genre names have been lying to us the whole time. Rock…
Phone Photos of Materials Lie, This Scanner Reads the Surface Itself
Every designer has a folder full of phone photos that were supposed to capture a specific shade of oak or a particular matte finish, and…
7 Best Japanese Stationery Gifts of September 2026
Japanese stationery operates on a different logic than most desk goods. The best pieces don’t announce their design—they reveal it through use, the third time…