A GameCube Controller on the Nintendo Switch 2? Meet Abxylute’s Deck-style Joy-Con Alternatives
When the Nintendo Switch 2 arrived in June 2025 at $449.99, it came with a 7.9-inch display, a faster processor, and a Joy-Con that…
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The Projector Concept That’s Almost Too Beautiful to Use
Most concept designs exist to generate buzz, collect awards, and then quietly disappear. The BeoLens Horizon, a projector concept imagined by French industrial designer Baptiste…
This E Ink Foldable Phone Concept Punishes Doomscrolling by Design
Most smartphones are designed to be impossible to put down. The screen faces up on every table, the display lights up for every notification, and…
XbooK’s $1,999 Triple-Screen Laptop Is One Bag Instead of Three Monitors
Anyone who has worked remotely long enough knows the moment a single laptop screen stops being enough. It’s usually the day you’re cross-referencing three documents…
The Shargeek 300 is a Cyberpunk-style Power Bank that can charge two MacBook Pros
Power banks have spent years being boring on purpose. Black rectangles, white rectangles, the occasional textured finish. The category settled into a kind of…
When Your Speaker Is Also a Puzzle, Music Hits Different
Most speaker designs ask a pretty simple question: how do we make this thing louder and smaller? Merge asks a completely different one. How do…
This Fan Made the Sony-Nintendo Handheld the Companies Never Would
The retro handheld market has a strange problem. The hardware keeps getting better, the screens get sharper, the processors get faster, and yet most of…
Casio’s special edition calculator handcrafted using traditional Japanese lacquering technique
For the unpressumable, the good old calculator is a gadget of yesteryears, as the smartphone does all the multitasking. However, for someone who works with…
10 Best Camping Gadgets Every Design Snob Needs Before Spring Actually Convinces You to Go Outside
Spring has a particular gift for making the outdoors look better than it probably is. The light softens, the temperature edges toward reasonable, and suddenly…
What If Google’s Server Heat Became Its Most Prominent Design Feature?
Most conversations about Big Tech and sustainability follow a familiar script: a company announces a carbon pledge, releases an environmental report full of impressive-sounding numbers,…
XPPen’s 4K Display Fixes the One Thing That Ruins Digital Art: Color
Finishing a piece of digital artwork only to discover that the colors on your client’s monitor look nothing like what you spent hours calibrating is…
Nike x Powerbeats Pro 2 earbuds promise great design, super secure fit, and impressive audio
Earbuds are a holy grail accessory for fitness freaks who want to get in the groove to focus on their goals without outside distractions or…
$73 Lenovo Gamepad Turns the Legion Y700 Into a Switch Lite Rival
Gaming tablets have always lived awkwardly between two worlds. Hold one flat, and it’s fine for casual sessions, but the moment a game demands precise…
The $135 Power Station That’s Also a Camping Lantern
Most portable power stations are boring. Not in a dealbreaker way, but in the way that nearly every product in the category looks the same,…
Gen Z Is Obsessed With These 5 Cassette-Era Gadgets & They Just Got a Full Design Upgrade for 2026
Something shifted in how people want to listen to music. Streaming gave everyone access to everything, and somewhere in that abundance, the experience got thinner….
Samsung and DOMINNICO made a leather bag that doubles as a Galaxy gadget case
Fashion accessories and tech gadgets have always occupied separate drawers, figuratively and literally. The phone goes in a pocket, the earbuds get buried somewhere in…