What do you do with your Altoids tins after devouring the mints? Maybe for keeping your coins, hand it over to your mom for storing the sewing accessories, for keeping handy a first aid, or …
This Ceramic Vase Is Actually a Phone Speaker That Needs No Power
The home has become increasingly cluttered with gadgets that need charging, pairing, and their own dedicated spaces. Even something as simple as playing music from a smartphone often involves a Bluetooth speaker sitting on a …
Hario’s V60 Gets Its First Real Upgrade in 20 Years for $23
The original Hario V60 is the kind of object that earns its own mythology. Released in 2004, it became the face of the third-wave coffee movement: a simple cone of heat-resistant glass (or ceramic, or …
d64 Just Packed an Entire Dice Collection Into a Tiny 1980s Computer
Tabletop roleplaying games have an accessory problem. The dice alone can take over a corner of any gaming table, each one representing a different die type that the rules will inevitably call for at the …
The 5 Best Tech Gadgets of May 2026
May 2026 is a good time to be paying attention. Gadgets aren’t just getting faster or thinner; the best ones this month are getting more intentional. There’s a shared thread running through every standout: each …
This Stationary Tiny Home Has More Room Than Most City Apartments
Most tiny houses ask you to make a trade-off. You get the romance of compact living, but sacrifice the one thing that makes a home feel like a home — space. Craft House, a modular …
Sony’s PS6 Could Triple the PS5’s Power. It Could Also Cost $800 and Land in 2029
Seven years is a strange unit of time. Long enough to finish a PhD, short enough to remember an event vividly, and apparently, exactly long enough for Sony to build, test, manufacture, and ship a …
This 4-in-1 Hands-free Flashlight Clips To Clothes, Snaps to Your Phone, and Stands on Its Own
A Red Dot Design Award and a $210,000 Kickstarter campaign are two very different kinds of validation. One comes from a jury of design professionals evaluating form, function, and coherence. The other comes from tens …
Kohler’s Smart Shower Purifies and Recirculates up to 80% of Water per Shower
For a decade, the smart shower category was essentially a thermostatic valve with an app stapled to it. Not particularly useful unless you consider “Hey Alexa, switch on my shower” to be the pinnacle of …
This Sculptural Glass Object Makes Flowers Feel Like a Van Gogh Painting
There is something instantly familiar about patterned glass. We have seen it in old windows, cabinet doors, bathroom partitions, and quiet corners of homes where privacy and light needed to exist together. It is a …