This Mod Made a Steam Machine Faceplate Charge Your Steam Controller
The Steam Machine has swappable faceplates, which is a genuinely good idea that Valve doesn’t appear to have fully exploited. The concept is essentially that…
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5 Ways Galaxy Z Fold 7 Still Impresses Over the New Fold 8 Ultra (Including the $600 Price Difference)
Samsung has perfected the art of making last year’s phone feel obsolete before you have even recycled the box. The Galaxy Z Fold 8 Ultra…
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The Luxury Hotel Concept That Works Like a Food Truck for Wilderness
Luxury hotels have always had a location problem. The kinds of places that would make the most extraordinary backdrops, remote desert plains, rolling highland meadows,…
The new Timex Retroware Digital Watch Just Rekindled My Childhood Memory
When I was growing up in the 1990s, there was a Timex I would kill for. If you remember the Timex Men’s Ironman Triathlon, you’d…
Phones Turn Reminders Into Distractions, This Magnetic Display Won’t
Smartphones have made information permanently accessible, but that accessibility comes at a price. The same device that shows you a reminder also delivers a notification…
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A Coin-Sized Disc Just Reinvented the Multi-Tool Nobody Could Fix
The multi-tool has been around long enough that most people have developed a frustrated relationship with it. You carry one because having a blade, a…
This Damascus Steel compact EDC knife packs two sliders into a 0.6-inch body
Double sliders in a pocket EDC tool? That’s not something you see often, mostly because fitting two independent sliding mechanisms into a body small enough…
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This Umbrella Is Actually a 500-Year-Old Korean Hat in Disguise
Anyone who has seen K-Pop Demon Hunters or an episode of a Korean historical drama is familiar with what a gat is. Even if you…
5 Home Objects That Look Like They Belong in a Design Museum but Cost Less Than a Dinner Out
The design museum makes one quiet argument. Certain objects deserve to be looked at, and how a thing is made can matter as much as…
The $33 Box That Locks Your Phone and Judges You for Opening It Early
Screen time management has spawned an entire industry of apps, built-in focus modes, notification filters, and weekly usage reports that most people glance at and…
Motorola’s Patent Isn’t a Phone You Wear, It’s a Watch You Unfold
The idea of merging a smartwatch and a smartphone into a single device has been floating around the industry for years, mostly because the obvious…
This $2,999 Device Turns Your Desktop Into A Custom Apparel Printing Factory (With Air Purification)
Let’s talk about the math for starting a small apparel brand. You have the designs, the drive, and a growing list of people who want…
The $195K Tiny Home That Finally Makes Sense for Families
The tiny house movement has always been better at Instagram than at parenting. A couple, a dog, maybe a sourdough starter on the counter: that’s…
The Sunglasses Built for When You’re Actually in the Water
Every summer, I do the same thing. I bring my sunglasses to the beach, spend twenty minutes deciding where to put them once I get…
Xiaomi’s $281 Portable Projector is effectively cheaper than paying for Netflix for a year
Here is what $281 buys you in an American projector aisle right now: TCL’s C1 at $250 with 230 ISO lumens, or XGIMI’s Vibe One…
This 3D-printed modular sneaker ditches glue for repairable design inspired by Asian craftsmanship
Sneakers have become more advanced than ever in terms of performance and comfort, yet their construction has barely changed. Most are assembled with permanent adhesives…
This air-conditioned formal shirt keeps you cool during heated board meetings
Let’s face it, global warming is real, and it’s already affecting millions worldwide. Japan is also bearing the brunt of hot summer days, prompting manufacturers…
A $150 Portable Espresso Machine That Heats Its Own Water in 135 Seconds
Good coffee and travel have never really gotten along. At the hotel, there’s that sad drip machine on the counter producing something closer to warm…
Nobody Designed a Drum Kit for Beginners. Until Boxboom.
Picking up the drums has always come with a quiet, frustrating tax. Before you’ve played a single beat, you’re already being asked to make a…
CMF Clip Pro open-ear buds come with a charging case dial to take calls
Clip-on-style earbuds are the new trend, and the fever is catching on fast across mainstream brands. While Nothing has already impressed with the Ear (open)…
Someone Stuffed a Full Retro Console Inside an NES Controller for $17
Most original NES controllers haven’t seen active duty in decades. They survive in storage bins and attic boxes, physically intact and perfectly functional as controllers,…
Camera Batteries Go Missing, So This $70 One Tracks Itself
Camera batteries are one of those accessories that photographers never think about until something goes wrong. They’re small enough to vanish into the bottom of…