Design

Climbing an observation tower involves a lot of steel and concrete just to stand a few dozen meters higher and take in a view. The ritual is familiar, the ascent, the vertigo, the panorama, but the infrastructure demands are massive for what amounts to a few minutes of elevated looking. Michael Jantzen’s Telepresence Observation Pavilion

Most robot vacuum-mop combos on the market right now do an acceptable job on light dust and can push a damp pad across hardwood, but ask them to handle a real kitchen spill or a week’s worth of tracked-in dirt from a dog, and the cracks start to show. Streaky floors, damp patches that take

There’s something deeply poetic about watching light pass through layers of colored wire mesh, each one adding a new dimension of color and shadow until you’re not quite sure where the walls end and the air begins. That’s exactly what Japanese architect Moriyuki Ochiai wants you to experience with his latest installation, a tea ceremony

Let’s be honest: most humidifiers are not so visually pleasant. They’re the appliances we hide in corners, tuck behind furniture, or banish to the bedroom where guests won’t see them. But what if a humidifier was so stunning you’d actually want to show it off? Enter the Balmuda Rain, a Japanese design marvel that’s making

Your smartphone camera lets you take 47 photos of the same sunset, delete 46 of them, and still feel like something’s missing. Rolling Square’s new Await Camera takes the opposite approach. You get 24 shots across three rolls, no preview screen, and a full day before you can even see what you captured. The Swiss

There’s a specific moment that happens when you first hear deep bass done properly. Your brain needs a second to process what’s happening because the sound doesn’t match what you expect from a speaker that size. I experienced that exact moment at CES 2026 while listening to Brane Audio’s Party Pro prototype, and for the