Architecture

If you grew up watching old movies or flipping through your parents’ architecture magazines from the 70s, you probably remember the conversation pit. That sunken, circular seating area built into the floor, ringed with cushions, usually occupied by someone in a turtleneck holding a glass of wine. It felt like the most optimistic design idea […]

Sleep has quietly become one of the most closely watched aspects of personal health. Around one in three people struggle with it, and roughly half of Americans already use a wearable device to track their sleep each night. That growing awareness has made sleep monitoring mainstream, turning the wrist and the finger into familiar real

Before the iPhone arrived in 2007 and quietly buried the category, handheld PCs were shaping up to be something genuinely exciting. Devices like the Sony Vaio UX and OQO Model 2 promised a full desktop OS in your jacket pocket, and for a brief window, that felt like the obvious future of personal computing. Smartphones

Kazakhstan is building a new city, and it just got a centerpiece worthy of the ambition. On March 5, 2026, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill unveiled the Alatau Iconic Complex and Gateway District, a pair of pyramidal towers set to define the skyline of Alatau, a brand-new city rising along the Almaty–Qonaev highway in south-eastern Kazakhstan.

Most great furniture doesn’t start with a grand vision. It starts with a sketch, usually a messy one, the kind you draw absentmindedly while thinking about something else entirely. Designer Deniz Aktay knows this. His latest piece, the Shift Sideboard, is proof that an unfinished line can sometimes carry more intention than a polished one.

Most of us learned to play ping pong the same way: flat table, net in the middle, bounce, smash, repeat. The rules were never really up for debate. You either knew them or you didn’t, and the table gave you very little room to imagine doing things differently. That’s exactly the kind of thinking French

If you worked in an office during the Windows 95 era, you knew the drill. The boss walks past, you alt-tab from Solitaire to a spreadsheet, and if you’re feeling particularly bold, you minimize Minesweeper and hope nobody notices the gray grid burned into your retinas. The game was a workplace epidemic, a logic puzzle

Nothing’s unique design language has inspired many gadgets and concept designs, and this one is no different. Just like the Nothing NK-1 keyboard which follows the brand’s transparent aesthetics, the minimalist form factor, and the signature font, this concept keyboard is one for fans who have always wanted a Nothing keyboard. This concept looks like

I love fried chicken as much as the next person. Probably more. So when KFC Brazil announced it was offering to customize your actual clothes with a fabric texture inspired by its iconic crispy coating, I had questions. Not the skeptical kind. More the “can they do that with a tote bag, and if so,

Heat is one of the most underestimated side effects of climate change, particularly in cities where built-up surfaces trap warmth long after the sun has gone down. Air conditioning has become a near-necessity in many parts of the world, yet millions of people can’t access it, either because they can’t afford it or because they