Bang & Olufsen’s New Speaker Concept Is a Ritual, Not a Device
Most speakers are designed to disappear. They sit on a shelf, blend into a bookcase, or hide in a cabinet, quietly doing their job until…
Most speakers are designed to disappear. They sit on a shelf, blend into a bookcase, or hide in a cabinet, quietly doing their job until…
Every time I replace a battery, I think about where it ends up. A AA battery in a remote control, a watch battery in a…
If you’ve ever tried to learn Photoshop, Illustrator, or pretty much any serious creative software on your own, you know the ritual. Open the app,…
Smart glasses have a problem they don’t talk about enough, and it has nothing to do with design or battery life or social awkwardness. It’s…
The shared household notice board is one of those ideas that never quite works the way it’s supposed to. Paper notes fall off, whiteboards get…
A dorm room desk is rarely designed. It arrives with the furniture package or gets assembled in the first week, and everything that lands on…
The mosquito has never been bested by elegance. We’ve thrown everything at it: citronella candles that smell like a health food store, zappers that feel…
There is a kind of man who takes longer at the electronics counter, not because he cannot decide, but because he is looking for something…
The best home products earn their place through specificity, not by doing everything, but by doing one thing with enough precision that every cheaper alternative…
The average nightstand is a collection of individual decisions made at different points of frustration. An alarm clock here, a white noise machine there, a…
The e-reader has been one of the most static product categories of the past two decades. Since the first Kindle appeared in 2007, the form…
The spec sheet for Lenovo’s new Legion R7 RT75 reads less like a keyboard listing and more like an arms race announcement. Eight thousand hertz…