External monitors have evolved far beyond the basic plug-and-play secondary screens they once were. Over the years, we’ve seen brands experiment with more flexible and lifestyle-focused approaches to portable displays. Lenovo Yoga Pad Pro blurred …
MAD Just Opened a 46,000 sqm Silver Cloud Museum in China
When we covered the Hainan Science Museum back in 2024, it was still a promise on renderings. The images showed a billowing silver form rising above a tropical wetland, and the honest reaction was: is …
Loop Is the Marble Calendar That Never Runs Out of Pages
Digital calendars have made keeping track of the date nearly frictionless, which sounds like a good thing until you realize how thoroughly that frictionlessness has stripped the experience of any meaning. The date appears in …
30 Years Later, Forrest Gump Gets the LEGO Set He Always Deserved
The bus bench scene in Forrest Gump was never supposed to be the heart of the film. It was a framing device, a structural trick borrowed from the original Winston Groom novel, a way to …
Su Yang Choi Made a Glowing Lamp From Seaweed, Paprika, and Gardenia
Sustainable design has spent years negotiating an awkward identity crisis. The moment a material gets labeled biodegradable or plant-based, it tends to be filed under “eco-alternative,” which is shorthand for “almost as good as the …
The colorful Audemars Piguet x Swatch Bioceramic Royal Pop watch can be worn in multiple ways
Since 1875, Audemars Piguet has been at the core of Swiss watchmaking, relentlessly blending luxury with bold designs in the Royal Oak. The avant-garde craftsmanship is now shared with Swatch to deliver a collaboration first …
Sydney Just Opened a 42-Metre Steel Lookout Over a Former Quarry
If you told me a 42-metre platform made of weathering steel, suspended over a former rock quarry, would be one of the most compelling pieces of public architecture right now, I’d say I believe you …
8 Best Pens and Writing Instruments That Make You Actually Want to Pick Up a Pen Again
There is an argument happening on desks everywhere, and it is not about productivity systems or the right notebook grid. It is about whether the thing you write with deserves the same design attention as …
Japan Just Built a Pokémon Footbath and It’s Genuinely Moving
When you hear “Pokémon footbath,” your brain probably goes one of two places: either immediate delight or mild confusion. Both reactions are fair. But when you actually see what just opened in the small coastal …
Most Portable Monitors Are Rigid Slabs, This $1,299 One Folds
Portable monitors have become a legitimate part of the modern mobile workspace, with countless options available across every price range. But almost all of them share one fundamental constraint: they’re flat, rigid panels in protective …