A Mouse You Can Squeeze Like a Stress Ball While You Work
The computer mouse hasn’t changed much in decades. Still mostly hard plastic, still shaped like a bar of soap, still asking your hand to grip…
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Forget Smarter AI, This Robot Thinks Presence Is the Point
We keep building AI to do more. More answers, more speed, more certainty. Designer Mehrnaz Amouei looked at that trajectory and asked a fundamentally different…
vivo X300 FE Review: The Compact Flagship That Earns Its Keep
Premium smartphones have been trending bigger, heavier, and more visually imposing for years. It’s reached the point where “flagship” is almost synonymous with large, and…
5 Over-Ear Headphones That Look as Good When They’re Around Your Neck as When They’re on Your Head
The headphone has become something it was never originally designed to be: a silhouette. Worn around the neck on a subway platform or draped over…
Air Purifier Filters Cost $100 a Year, but CUE Uses Water Instead
Air purifiers have become a common fixture in homes and offices, quietly working to keep indoor air breathable. Most of them follow the same basic…
No More Waiting in Line for Hot Water, This RV Heater Has 66,000 BTU
Summer has a way of changing the rules for RV travel. What was a relaxed weekend trip for one or two people becomes a full-blown…
Canon Is Stealing DJI’s Content Creator Crown With Its Own Osmo Pocket Rival
DJI built the pocket gimbal camera market almost entirely by itself, and for years nobody credible showed up to contest it. The Osmo Pocket line…
This Google-Free Phone Is IP68-Rated and Has a Replaceable Battery
Most smartphones ship with an assumption baked in: that you’re fine with your data running through Google’s servers, your habits feeding its algorithms, and its…
This MagSafe iPhone Grip Is Actually a Self-Defense Spray in Disguise
Personal safety products have a design problem few people talk about. Pepper sprays and personal alarms are either too bulky to carry consistently or so…
The Lexon x Jeff Koons Collaboration Makes Functional Art Worthy to Adorn Your Living Room
Lexon has always operated in that precise zone where design meets desire, making objects that earn their place on a shelf by being genuinely useful…
Dreame’s Pet-Friendly Air Purifier Collects Fur Before It Clogs Your Filters
Dreame started building vacuum cleaners in 2017. They built motors that spun faster than anyone else’s, wrote algorithms that mapped rooms more efficiently than the…
This $599 ‘Swiss-Army’ Android Tablet Has a Built-In Projector, Night Vision, and a Laser Rangefinder
At some point in the last decade, the iPad became the default answer to the question of what a tablet should be. Thin, light, polished,…