Core77 Weekly Roundup (7-28-25 to 8-1-25)

Here’s what we looked at this week:

The Worksport Solis and Cor Hub are a solar-power-harvesting tonneau cover, and a portable generator, for pickup trucks.

The KikFin Shark: A wearable underwater jet pack.

Maximum, which makes furniture out of industrial waste, turns old crowd control barriers into seating.

Just stunning: Fabian Oefner creates paintings without canvases.

Twelve South’s PowerBug, a minimal MagSafe charger ideal for travel.

Better than foam: Fluid-filled earplugs for a perfect fit.

Chemistry vs. sexual assault: A date-rape-drug-detecting skin sticker.

Sortimo has designed a folding vise for work vans.

The Matthews Air Climber raises heavy loads 25 feet using an air compressor.

Electrical engineer Michael Kuzma has invented a self-playing guitar system.

The Kangaroo Hanger: A Product Design student’s self-project leads to massive business success.

Knoll brings back an ’80s design classic: Joseph D’Urso’s Occasional Table.

The Amazon delivery missile, by artist Sunday Nobody: 30 second deliveries.

ARES’ brilliant, low-tech energy storage system uses recycled materials, gravity and rocks. Anywhere with a hill will do.

Why Industrial Facility designed this humble-looking Hiroi Chair.

New book: In “How Play Shifts Our Thinking, Inspires Connection, and Sparks Creativity,” play designer Cas Holman covers the benefits of play for adults.

A game-changing tool design: Powered fence post drivers save time, materials and labor.

Heller figures out how to make plastic furniture that doesn’t shed microplastics.

Designed by industrial design firm Cardboard Helicopter, this torpedo level changes color when it’s level or plumb.