An S-Pen for the iPhone Duo? Yes please!
I’ll give Apple its props by saying that it’s genuinely remarkable they built Apple Pencil compatibility into the iPhone Duo. Yes, it’s a welcome move…
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This Stained Glass Car Imagines a Future Where You Sleep Through Your Commute
Cars of the future are usually imagined as sleek metallic pods packed with screens, sensors, and glowing interfaces. Dominic Wilcox went in almost the opposite…
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The Ripe Banana G-SHOCK Nobody Saw Coming at $170
A yellow wristwatch is not that uncommon, especially for brands that love playing around with bright colors. But to see a watch that pays tribute…
This $249 Player Brings Back the iPod Wheel, and With It, the Lost Art of Owning Your Music
Vinyl came back. Film cameras came back. Flip phones came back, and somehow so did wired earbuds, which I personally never stopped defending. The pattern…
Huawei MatePad Pro 12” Review: Stunning Hardware, One Familiar Caveat
Huawei’s tablet lineup is not doing itself many favors right now. The names suggest one thing, the products suggest another, and if you are just…
Featured Designs
The Gennai Pen SL01 Is Closer to Clockwork Than Stationery
Press a button on most pens, and you get ink. Press the lever on the Gennai Pen SL01, though, and you get mechanical theater instead….
Flashlights Usually Don’t Have Personalities, Olight’s Oclip 2 Ultra Kind of Does
Flashlights do not usually have personalities. They turn on, they turn off, and that is the extent of the relationship. Olight’s Oclip line has spent…
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The 90-Year-Old Lamp Nobody Improved On — Until Now
A lamp can look beautiful on a desk and still make it harder to work. The bulb catches your eye, the light lands everywhere except…
Mobvoi TicNote smartwatch has one button, and it’s built to remember what you often forget
I know you will relate to one of these telltale moments. A meeting ends, someone gives you three useful details, and by the time you…
9 Best Gifts for the Person Who Turned Their Living Room Into a Sports Bar
Some people watch the game. Others build a whole experience around it. The living room becomes the venue, the couch becomes the seat, and somehow…
HP’s $699 OmniBook 5 Has the One Thing the MacBook Neo Doesn’t
Affordable laptops often make you choose between a nice screen and a machine you’d want to carry. HP’s $699.99 OmniBook 5 14 makes a different…
Google’s Fix for One-Handed Typing Is a Rolling Belt of Letters
Typing with one hand usually means stretching a finger across a keyboard while the other hand holds a drink or works a mouse. Google’s Gboard…
Amazon Gave Kindles Their Missing Buttons Back, as Accessories
Kindles once let your thumb turn pages, but physical buttons disappeared from most of Amazon’s newer readers. That might not seem like a big loss…
The VIVIFoCAL S1 Glasses Focus Themselves So Your Eyes Don’t Have To
Your phone focuses by firing an invisible laser pulse at whatever you’re aiming it at, timing the bounce, and telling a tiny motor to move…
Designers Already Prototype Hardware – Now They’re Prototyping Demand Too
Every product that finds its way onto these pages eventually meets the same crossroads: the moment a designer takes the thing public. For physical product…
London’s Coolest Capsule Hotel Proves Budget and Beautiful Aren’t Opposites
London has a new answer to affordable city-centre stays — and it looks nothing like the hostels that came before it. SODA, the London-based architecture…
The 1969 Lamp Nobody Knew They Needed Is Back
Most statement lighting presents a familiar dilemma. A lamp can give a room personality, but the more attention it demands, the harder it can be…
Nobody Expected a Dumpster to Be the Coolest Bag
Anyone who has seen me carry my huge tote bag probably wonders how I can find anything inside it. To be honest, it takes me…
Would you pay $14,000 for an iPhone Duo without any cameras?
Imagine sitting at a table with friends and whipping your phone out. Your friends see it’s a foldable… then as you unfold it, the animation…
Ressence Doesn’t Want Your Watch to Look Like a Watch
Design Mindset, Yanko Design’s weekly podcast, premieres every week with a new guest and a single animating question: what does it actually take to think…
Samsung Galaxy Buds On let you listen to music without blocking your ears
Clip-on earbuds have arrived in a big way, giving another versatile way to enjoy music whether you’re in the gym or making your way to…
Samsung’s SmartTag3 Refuses to Die at 790 Days Battery Life
I’m the kind of person who can set down my keys, turn around, and immediately forget where they went. Wallets, earbuds, and bags have a…