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Vivo X300 Review: Compact, But No Compromise

PROS: Compact, minimal design with a subtle camera module Excellent ergonomics, light weight, and easy one-handed use Versatile and powerful camera system Large 6040mAh battery CONS: Camera system is a step down from the X300 Pro Limited focus on sustainability and repairability RATINGS: AESTHETICS ERGONOMICS PERFORMANCE SUSTAINABILITY / REPAIRABILITY VALUE FOR MONEY EDITOR’S QUOTE: If […]

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YouTuber custom-builds coffee table with functional star system around an exploding sun

Have you ever dreamed of sitting around the solar system? Modder at The 5439 Workshop on YouTube may have just made it possible with this new kind of solar system inside a coffee table. This is a cherry wood and aluminum coffee table with a precision cutout in the middle where a “mechanical orrery with

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When a Neighborhood Reclaimed Its Lost Shore With 9,200 Face Masks

Here’s something you don’t expect to sit on: surgical masks. Nearly 10,000 of them, to be exact. But that’s exactly what Design PY created in Hong Kong’s Tai Kok Tsui neighborhood with Tidal Stories, a spiraling urban installation that quite literally traces where the ocean used to be. The concept is brilliant in its simplicity.

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ithra hosts celebration of design with tanween returning for its 8th edition

tanween’s 8th edition takes center stage at ITHRA   From November 17 to 22, 2025, the King Abdulaziz Center for World Culture (Ithra) presents the 8th edition of its annual design event, Tanween. A highlight of the MENA region’s design landscape with global relevance, Tanween 2025 brings together designers from Saudi Arabia and around the

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Legal and IP Essentials for Design Contests: Terms, Hand-off Files, and Licensing

There’s something thrilling about watching a design contest unfold. You post a brief, and soon dozens of creative minds are interpreting it in their own way—each bringing fresh ideas, unique styles, and unexpected visions to the table. It’s exciting, fast-paced, and full of potential. But, beneath all that creative energy lies a practical side that

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bright pink interior revitalizes adaptive acoustic music hall for sax’s cultural complex in spain

COR Architecture + Design builds Long-Unfinished Sax Music Hall   COR Architecture + Design has finalized the Sax Music Hall in Sax, Spain, completing a long-stalled cultural complex. Construction of a cultural complex began in 2008, intended to include a library, an auditorium, chamber music rooms, a music school, and a conference hall across more

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DIY 3D-Printed Clamshell Turns BOOX Palma Into a Tiny Laptop

Palmtops and UMPCs are experiencing a quiet resurgence among people who want something more focused than a laptop and more tactile than a phone. Compact e-ink devices and tiny Bluetooth keyboards have become affordable building blocks for exactly this kind of project, letting makers combine them into pocketable machines tailored to writing, reading, or just

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are electric cars the next power generators for homes without electricity?

Electric cars serve as power generators during outages   Can electric cars double as power generators for homes without electricity and neighborhoods experiencing blackouts and outages? In the recent announcement of Polestar, the company is using its Polestar 3 to supply energy to homes with bi-directional charging. The brand is working with the home energy

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