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You Can Now Own the Actual Motherboard from the First iPhone, Sealed Inside The 17 Pro

Caviar’s Apple 50th anniversary collection has been moving faster than the company’s own PR team can keep up with. We covered the Steve Jobs turtleneck edition earlier this month, nine units of a titanium iPhone 17 Pro carrying an authenticated Issey Miyake fabric fragment inside the Apple logo, and by the time most readers had […]

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A Monkey-Shaped Cat House That Turns Comfort Into Playful Living Sculpture

In a market saturated with predictable pet furniture, minimal cubes, beige scratching posts, and standard enclosed beds, this monkey-shaped cat house arrives as a refreshing disruption. It is not just a product, it is a presence. Something between furniture sculpture and quiet theater, it redefines what it means to design for animals while speaking directly

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Old Tape, New Tricks: Maxell’s Cassette Player Goes Wireless

Every few years, the tech industry digs up something from the past, slaps a USB-C port on it, and calls it innovation. Sometimes it works. Sometimes it’s a gimmick dressed in nostalgia. The Maxell Wireless Cassette Player lands, surprisingly, somewhere in between, and it’s more interesting for it. Maxell isn’t exactly an outsider here. The

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5 Best Design Tools That Take You From the First Sketch to the Finished Prototype

The design process has always lived between two worlds: the rough immediacy of a hand-drawn line and the precision of a finished object you can hold. What changes the game is not having more tools, but having the right ones at each stage. The five picks here form a complete creative pipeline, moving from the

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As 3D Printing Filament Prices Surge 59%, Creality Turns Plastic Scrap Into New Supply

I’ve been watching filament spool prices creep upward for two years, but the last six weeks turned that creep into a sprint. A kilogram of basic PLA that cost $18 in February now runs closer to $28 if you can find it in stock. Specialty materials like carbon-fiber composite or flexible TPU have crossed $60

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These 5 Playful Everyday Objects Were Designed to Make You Feel Like a Kid Again

For decades, “form follows function” shaped how you designed and lived. Minimalism stripped objects down to pure utility, where functional products like a chair were only a chair, or a lamp was only a source of light. That clarity once felt essential, but now it feels incomplete. We are moving into an era of playful

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5 Containers, a Sauna, and a Rooftop Deck in Rural Vermont

The Vermont Villa by Backcountry Containers is the kind of build that makes you reconsider everything you thought you knew about shipping container homes. Not because it’s shocking, but because it’s genuinely, quietly good. The running joke about container homes has always been that they’re either a clever budget hack or an architect’s ego project

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The Leather Vessels at Milan 2026 That Feel Like They’re Breathing

When I first came across Talia Luvaton’s work, I genuinely paused. Not because it was unexpected to see leather used in design, but because nothing about these pieces looked like leather was supposed to look. The forms were full, curved, almost muscular, more closely related to the human body than to anything you’d find in

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