My phone flashlight handles most of my after-dark chores, which is a funny confession from someone who writes about EDC gear for a living. It…
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Copying customer details from a message into a spreadsheet probably isn’t anyone’s idea of a good afternoon. Unfortunately, even a perfectly capable computer still leaves…
An empty vase can make a shelf look oddly unfinished, as though the flowers were supposed to do all the decorating. Aleksander Kozera’s Neo-Brutalist Vases…
A home shouldn’t make you negotiate with the furniture just to walk across the room. That becomes a design problem when the entire floor plan…
Opening a folding phone gives you more screen, but it doesn’t tell you where to put it when your hands are busy. BIONIC’s iPhone Duo…
Grade 5 titanium (Ti-6Al-4V) is the alloy of jet engine compressor blades, surgical implants, and aerospace fasteners. It has a tensile strength of nearly 1000…
Moss has been on this planet for around 450 million years, which means it predates dinosaurs, continents as we know them, and the concept of…
Making pour-over coffee asks you to do more than press a button, which is part of its appeal until the morning gets busy. Breville’s Spiral…
A field of tiny steel spheres is an unusual way to introduce a perfume. It also addresses a familiar problem with fragrance displays: the bottle…
A headphone jack shouldn’t be a headline. Neither should a slot for adding storage, a battery you can change, or a keyboard with actual keys….
Small jobs have a habit of sending us looking for bigger tools. A package arrives, the tape won’t budge, and suddenly you’re searching a drawer…
Valve raised the price of the 512GB Steam Deck OLED to $789 this May, a number that makes anyone want to close the browser tab…
A substantial brick chimney rises through the center of Carl Maston’s Ventura beach house, giving the oceanfront home a surprisingly grounded heart. Completed in 1984,…
Buying a chair for conversation and buying one for an evening with a book can feel like two separate furniture decisions. One asks you to…
Even though I already have drawers and boxes of various stationery items, I’m always on the lookout for things that are cute and unique but…
We are already wearing clothing with heaters and Bluetooth speakers built in. But tech-infused clothing to do more than that still feels ugly and nerd…
A mushroom with glowing eyes is an easier sell for my nightstand than a miniature humanoid. OKA’s Mori takes that approachable shape and gives it…
The relationship between technology and craftsmanship is evolving rapidly, and 3D-printed lighting sits at the center of this transformation. What once belonged purely to industrial…
Only a few come close to Bandit9 when it comes to avant-garde custom motorcycle creations. We’ve seen some eye-popping designs from the Vietnam-based studio that…
Putting a large screen on a gaming handheld is easy compared with making the whole thing comfortable to hold. AYN’s Odin 3 Portal approaches that…
The back of Teenage Engineering’s EP-35 opens to reveal a compartment for cables and accessories. It’s a wonderfully unglamorous feature to put on a music…
An album can be a folder you keep, a disc you lend, or a cassette you record yourself. That is a useful starting point for…
