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The other day I saw something funny: I drove past a house with a long privacy fence that had been painted white, and across it, someone had spraypainted “Mural-ideas@gmail.com” (or something similar.) I found it …

Furniture designers are in a challenging era. Increasing customization demands, the rise of complex organic forms, and non-stop pressure to streamline production are pushing traditional workflows to their limits. Managing intricate plans, negotiating precision measurements, …

Brian Keene is a former airline pilot and retired airline industry executive who remains obsessed with airports. So much so that in his retirement, he started AV Pro Designs, a company that manufactures dioramas of …

Editor’s Note: This is the first essay in a new series exploring how AI is transforming the way physical products are imagined, designed, and built. Hardware is the New Salt will spotlight several thinkers and …

This aluminum Set Table Lamp, by Canadian designer Jamie Wolfond, borrows a trick from old-school adjustable stools. The shade can be manually rotated to change the nature of the light. “It is very bright, especially …

In a disturbingly short amount of time, Lockheed Martin’s Sikorsky division has converted a Blackhawk helicopter into a fully autonomous model. To drive the point home, their new U-Hawk lacks a cockpit and windows entirely. …

This month the We Explore, a catamaran, launched from France on a journey to Brazil. The 55-foot boat contains the Transatlantic Studio, a floating atelier and the brainchild of French artist Xavier Veilhan. Veilhan and …

Are we “over” smartphones yet? What’s beyond the iPhone? Chinese electronics company Honor believes that what we all want in a smartphone (or worse, need) is an “emotional companion” that “senses, adapts, and evolves autonomously …

Here we see, courtesy of CalTech and Abu Dhabi’s Technology Innovation Institute, a humanoid robot walking around with a drone on its back. At first, as the robot bends at the waist, I thought this …

Here’s what we looked at this week: The Pepe, by architect/designer Raffaella Mangiarotti, is a saddle-inspired leather chair. There’d be no G-Shock without Kubrick’s “2001: A Space Odyssey.” The digital watch started out as a …