The HOUYOU lamp doesn’t announce itself. It sits on a table, conical and quiet, wrapped in fibrous brown bark that looks almost raw, almost unfinished. Nothing about it is trying to impress you at first …
Mud, Microbes, and the 46 m² Lab the Amazon Needed
Most of us picture a laboratory as a sleek, sterile box of steel and glass perched on a university campus or inside some tech park. The Witoca Laboratory in Ecuador is none of those things. …
8BitDo Retro R8 C64 Edition mouse fuses Commodore 64 nostalgia with modern gaming performance
8BitDo, well-known for its quality gaming accessories, has a strong hold on retro-themed PC accessories, such as keyboards and numpads. Their Retro R8 mouse lineup, which already has the Xbox Edition and N Edition, now gets another variant …
Your Light Switch Is the Worst-Designed Thing in Your House. Inkslab Offers An Alternative
Most wall switches exist to be ignored. You flip them without looking, never registering the object itself, because there is nothing to register. HDL Automation’s Inkslab panel series makes that kind of invisibility impossible. The …
Rewild Homes Built a Tiny House That Actually Works for a Growing Family
The idea that tiny living demands sacrifice is one that the Starling quietly dismantles. Built by Rewild Homes out of Nanaimo on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, this 33-foot gooseneck tiny house was conceived with a …
Minimalist laptop with a secondary display minimizes distractions, maximizes productivity
Minimalism in computing interfaces often promises clarity, yet many modern systems still struggle with cluttered notifications, layered menus, and competing visual elements. The Minimal Laptop UI concept explores what a truly distraction-free laptop experience might …
Rabbit R1’s OpenClaw Update Could Be Its Most Important Moment Yet
There is a version of the Rabbit R1 story that ends in 2024. The device launches to enormous hype off the back of a viral CES presentation, ships to early adopters who find it half-finished …
Researchers turned Sawdust Waste and Watermelon Seeds into Recyclable Fire-resistant Panels
Every sawmill in the world produces it. Every furniture factory, every timber yard, every construction site that cuts wood leaves behind a pile of the stuff, and globally that adds up to hundreds of millions …
This walkable steel sculpture turns geometric chaos into an experience
Most public sculptures are meant to be looked at from the outside. You walk past, glance up, maybe take a photo, and move on. The relationship between the object and the person stops at the …
Rokform Built a $100 Charger That Replaces Your Entire Nightstand Pile
At some point, the nightstand became a charging station. What started as a place for a glass of water and a book has evolved into a tangle of cables, pucks, and adapters competing for the …