Architecture

You can keep all the LEGO builds on one side and the life-sized version on the other; the latter will always be more impressive. The McLaren P1 driven by Lando Norris, and the Ferrari Monza SP1 are prime examples of cars that look better in their LEGO-ized version. The Moza SP1, designed specifically as a LEGOLAND […]

There is always a persistent tension in the watch world. Smartwatches do a lot, but they rarely look good doing it. Analog watches look exceptional, but they’ll never ping you when you’ve hit 10,000 steps. The Ganance Heir is a small, coin-sized sensor that quietly sits on the caseback of your watch and bridges that

For half a century, the humble foam earplug has been a masterpiece of single-purpose design. It is a small cylinder of polyurethane, expertly engineered to expand in your ear canal and dampen the world. Its simplicity is its genius, and its disposability is its convenience. We use them by the billion to sleep on airplanes,

Biomimicry in architecture usually means borrowing structural logic from nature. Honeycomb patterns for strength, lotus leaves for water repellency, termite mounds for passive cooling. Thilina Liyanage takes a different approach. He’s interested in the moment when an animal does something so visually arresting that the form itself becomes a kind of language. His latest project,

There are a few driver’s watches as acceptable and undeniably luring as the Amida Digitrend, first launched way back in 1976 (the same year when Apple was born). The fanfare had Amida and watch designer Matthieu Allègre revisit the timepiece in 2024, and now, to commemorate its 50th year since launch, the Digitrend is revived

Most people deep in the Apple ecosystem carry at least three devices that need charging every day. An iPhone, an Apple Watch, and AirPods don’t share cables, and even the cleanest wireless charging setup tends to involve multiple pads spread across several surfaces. It’s a situation that gets worse when you’re away from home and

Learning to play a musical instrument is one of the most commonly abandoned pursuits in modern life. The gap between wanting to play and being able to usually involves years of lessons, expensive gear, and a dedicated practice space. That’s a lot of friction for something that’s supposed to be joyful, and it keeps most

The trailer industry is moving beyond wooden and wood-based, aluminum-skinned caravans toward more rugged, corrosion- and rot-resistant hard-bodied construction. Other features gaining popularity in hard-sided trailers include auto-lifting roofs and compact models that expand at the sides and rear to increase living space. A pioneer of the former, Prattline in Australia, is revisiting its lineup

The Beolab 90 has spent the better part of a decade as Bang & Olufsen’s technological flagship, a speaker so absurdly capable that it can beam-form sound to different parts of a room simultaneously. For the company’s centenary, the design team decided the speaker’s technical mastery deserved equally ambitious surface treatments. The result is a

Smartphone design has been converging on a single, almost universal ideal: more screen, less frame. Brands across the spectrum have spent the last few years shaving down bezels, flattening camera bumps, and chasing a kind of visual minimalism that would have seemed impossible a decade ago. The race to the thinnest, cleanest slab has become