Every year, MWC arrives with the promise of seeing the future of mobile technology, or at least a very expensive approximation of it. The 2026 edition in Barcelona was the event’s 20th anniversary in the city, and while nearly 105,000 people showed up, there was a noticeable shift in what filled the booths. Fewer headline-grabbing […]
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Resonique ladder fuses functional object and sculptural form SO KOIZUMI DESIGN has developed Resonique, a ladder that explores the relationship between functional structure and sculptural form. The project draws on the structural logic of ladders while referencing the flowing geometries associated with brass musical instruments. Through this combination, the object shifts from a purely
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Nothing has steadily built a reputation for blending distinctive design with practical features. Now the Headphone (a) continues that philosophy by bringing many of the flagship features of the company’s earlier over-ear models to a more affordable price point. Positioned as a streamlined alternative to the Nothing Headphone (1), the new budget headphones aim to
Apple has always had this gravitational pull when it comes to design — clean lines, considered materials, and that unmistakable restraint that somehow still feels exciting. It’s the reason a whole ecosystem of third-party accessories exists that speaks the same visual language, sometimes so fluently you’d swear they came out of Cupertino. The five products
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inside symbols and social ritual in ga-adangme funerary culture In her book Buried in Style, Swiss anthropologist and photographer Regula Tschumi documents Ghana’s funerary traditions, exploring how ritual objects, figurative coffins, and commemorative practices translate grief into form, color, and collective memory. For more than twenty years, Tschumi has been returning to southern Ghana,
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Blumarine Opens a New Boutique in brera Blumarine has opened a new boutique in Milan’s creative neighborhood of Brera, with architecture and interior design by NM3 shaping a refined retail interior along Via Fiori Chiari. Set within an historic street frontage at number 28, the boutique occupies a single level of roughly 170
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Apple has always had a talent for making hardware that feels complete right out of the box, and the iPad is perhaps the finest example of that philosophy. Sleek, powerful, and achingly well-designed, it arrives looking like the answer to every creative and productive need you could possibly have. But here is the thing about
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Music doesn’t weigh anything anymore. It hasn’t for a while. We went from shelves full of vinyl and towers of CDs to playlists that scroll infinitely and libraries that live nowhere in particular. Streaming gave us everything, all at once, all the time. But somewhere in the exchange, we lost the part of listening that
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Spoa, a series of mushroom-inspired energy devices Meet Spoa, a series of conceptual mushroom-inspired devices that can convert wasted energy into reusable electricity to charge gadgets and appliances at home. The three modules collect the electromagnetic fields from around the house and store them in the devices so owners can reuse them to power
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Tucked into the rolling hills of Glen Ellen in Sonoma County, a 14-acre estate carries the kind of stillness that most people spend a lifetime chasing. The land has its own private lake, wildlife moving freely at every hour, and a canopy of Northern California nature that presses in from every direction. At its center
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