This Korean Hat Was Always Meant to Be a Lamp and Finally Became One
The gat is one of the more distinctive objects in Korean material culture. Woven from horsehair and bamboo and worn by scholars and noblemen during…
Concept Designs
A Robot Dog That Wants You to Go Outside? Lassie Might.
Dogs have a way of making you do things you wouldn’t otherwise do. Get out of bed on a rainy morning. Walk around the block…
Someone Finally Bent a Desk to Put Your Monitor Higher and Hands Low
Most desk design still treats the flat surface as a given. Monitor, keyboard, notepad, and coffee all land on the same plane, and we adjust…
Someone Designed an Off-Grid Modular Home From a Farm Equipment Catalog
The search for affordable, sustainable housing tends to produce two kinds of proposals. The first involves entirely new materials, new manufacturing processes, and supply chains…
This Desk Lamp Puts a Spotlight in a Ring Light With One Knob
Desk lighting has long been a compromise between task and atmosphere. Professional lamps tend to lean one way or the other: too directional and harsh…
The Cleaning Robot That Knows When a Bathroom Needs It
Public restrooms have, for the longest time, been a design afterthought. They get built, they get scheduled for cleaning twice a day, and everything that…
The Modular Chair That Lets You Swap Parts Like a Building
Most furniture asks one question at the point of purchase: do you like it enough to live with it, possibly forever? Junha Kahm’s Facade modular…
Samsung Killed the Galaxy Note, but This S27 Concept Brings It Back
Samsung’s Ultra lineup has been on a gradual softening trajectory. The hard, squared-off corners that made early Galaxy S Ultra and Note phones feel deliberately…
Most Active Stools Just Wobble, but This One Runs on Skateboard Trucks
The active sitting market has been trying to solve the same problem for years by adding instability to an otherwise conventional seat. Balance boards, wobble…
A Victorian Coffee Table Just Grew Robot Dog Legs
Most furniture sits quietly in a room and asks nothing of you. Alexandre Veillon’s latest piece does the opposite. It crouches. It stares. It makes…
A Console Table With Wooden Pages Built Into Its Surface
Most furniture is designed to stay put. It sits in a corner, holds your lamp, or supports your coffee cup, and asks nothing of you…
The No-Drill Plywood Shelf System Every Renter Has Been Waiting For
Most shelves come with a decision baked into their design: find a wall, drill some holes, and commit to a location that will outlast most…
This Cork Cactus Looks Like Decor and Acts Like 3 Pieces of Furniture
Coat stands have always occupied an awkward position in a room. They’re functional enough to keep around but rarely considered anything beyond a place to…
Streaming Took Something From Us. The ENSA T1 Wants It Back
Do you remember the last time music actually demanded something of you? Not just your attention while you scrolled, but your hands. The deliberate pull…
AI Surveillance Cameras Can’t See Through This Jacket
The last time I really thought about what my outfit was doing for me, I was considering whether my summer dress made me look like…
Humanoid Robots Don’t Fit in Store Aisles, So Robbyant Fixed That
Service robots have been making steady progress in controlled environments, but deploying them in real commercial spaces has always come down to one stubborn problem:…