Core77 Weekly Roundup (8-4-25 to 8-8-25)

Here’s what we looked at this week:

The Ulefone 33 Pro is a 2×4-sized rugged smartphone.

Yamazaki Home’s magnetic tape dispenser can hold two sizes at once.

These Horl Scissors have an unusual feature designed to make sharpening simple.

How you can make even a pencil sharpener go viral.

Audacious Concept and D Rocket Design’s IMP is a beautiful, bizarrely tiny EDC folding knife.

Shadow Tool Staging Systems: More efficient than drawers.

Better UX than roadside flares: LED-equipped Lizard Flares.

“The Wedge Revolution,” the Petersen Museum’s exhibition on wedge-shaped cars, is now open.

How 3D printing will lead to cheaper nuclear energy: Innovative formworks.

Casio’s MR-G is a titanium G-Shock watch with a hand-hammered finish.

Plus Minus Zero’s Braun-y wireless TV speaker.

This mesmerizing Hypnoloid, a kinetic desktop sculpture, moves in a very unexpected way.

Coop Sleep Goods makes adjustable pillows.

The LifeStraw Escape: A portable, high-capacity pressurized water purifier.

ASCII art, but done with manual typewriters! By typewriter artists Paul Smith and James Cook.

Piet Hein Eek’s kitchens made from repurposed materials.

Umbra’s user-configured Solis Adjustable Standing Shelf system, by industrial designer Sergey Dedin, offers a lot of different looks.

An end to reading glasses? FDA approves vision-improving eyedrops.

Industrial design case study: Pearson Lloyd explores future-facing learning spaces with an experimental “café classroom.”