A Designer Just Gave the Sandwich Maker the Concept It Deserved
Small appliances are the forgotten middle children of industrial design. We obsess over espresso machines and standing mixers, but the humble sandwich maker? It usually…
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AMD’s Handheld Reign Just Met MSI’s Biggest Intel Threat
The handheld gaming PC market has been AMD’s playground for most of the last few years. From the Steam Deck to the ASUS ROG Ally,…
The $4,499 ASUS Gaming Laptop With Two Full Screens Will Make You Question Every Laptop You’ve Owned
Dual-screen laptops have been ASUS’s long game. The Zenbook Duo spent several years proving that two displays could coexist for productivity users before the form…
Michigan Built a $4,000 Robot You Can Rebuild from Scratch
The Ship of Theseus is one of philosophy’s most enduring thought experiments: if you replace every plank of a ship, one by one, is it…
Streaming made music feel invisible. This $199 Portable CD player fixes that
Nobody really announced the CD comeback. It didn’t arrive with a glossy campaign or some grand industry reset. It just started happening quietly, then all…
GoTag Is the GPS Tracker Concept That Actually Looks Like It Matters
GPS trackers are one of the few gadget categories that never really got the design treatment they deserved. Most are anonymous pucks or plastic fobs,…
Translation, Prompting, Agentic AI, all in 40 grams: iFLYTEK’s Smart Glasses Debut at BEYOND Expo 2026
Beyond Expo 2026 arrived with a clear message for the tech world, AI has moved past the screen and into the objects people wear, hold,…
No Vision Pro 2 Before 2028. Apple’s Focusing On Smart-Glasses Instead, says Gurman
Meta’s Ray-Ban smart glasses sold over 7 million units in 2025, a number that would have seemed improbable two years earlier when the category barely…
This B&O Headphone Concept Fits Only You, Literally, and It’s the Best Idea Audio Has Had in Years
Bang & Olufsen built its reputation on the idea that audio equipment should be worthy of the spaces it inhabits. Bas Kamp’s ONCE concept takes…
Vertu AlphaFold starting at $6,880 makes the Galaxy Z Fold seem ultra-affordable
When mainstream smartphone designs became too generic, the next evolution took the form of foldable phones. These devices, targeted towards power users who want the…
Two Acer Portable Monitors and a $50 Screen You Can Actually Wear
The laptop has become the default portable workstation, but it has one limitation that’s hard to overlook: you’re still stuck with one screen. Freelancers, students,…
Acer’s Nitro Blaze Link Is a Gaming Handheld That Skips the Processor
Gaming PCs have fractured into more categories than any single device can cover. The player who needs maximum frame rates for competitive play sits on…