Design

If you’ve spent any time in mechanical keyboard spaces online, you’ve probably seen someone evangelizing split keyboards as the solution to all your ergonomic problems. They’re usually right, but the barrier to entry has been high. Most split boards either require assembly, force you onto ortholinear or column-stagger layouts, or look like something out of

When Mark Bullivant, principal at South African architecture studio SAOTA, came across a steep, impossibly narrow plot in Cape Town’s Tamboerskloof neighborhood, most architects would have walked away. He bought it. The result is Kenmore — a personal home that quietly dismantles every assumption about what a tight site can hold. The numbers tell their

Most billiards tables do not ask much of you. You walk up, take your shot, and move on. They are designed to be neutral, quietly functional, almost invisible. This one is not interested in being invisible at all. Designed in Shengfang, Hebei Province, and later exhibited in Beijing, this Chinese billiards table does something rare.

The Macintosh 128K was a beige rectangle with vents, grooves, and a floppy disk slot. Spigen’s new MagSafe wallet is also a beige rectangle with vents, grooves, and a slot (this one for cards, not diskettes). The visual rhyme is intentional. While most accessory brands slap nostalgic graphics onto generic products and call it a

The street food vendors of Mumbai did not negotiate the terms of the Iran conflict. Neither did the factory managers in Vietnam, the government officials in Colombo, or the home cooks across a dozen nations who depend on liquefied petroleum gas. Yet the military standoff in the Strait of Hormuz, the chokepoint for 30% of