We’ve been ranting all year long about the rise of the handhelds and the choices spread across a wide spectrum. This diversity is attributed to many variables, including the use case, the genres of games the device is expected to play, and, most importantly, the price segment a gamer is looking at. ONE-NOTEBOOK has...

Most parks follow a familiar formula: some benches, a jogging path, maybe a playground, and if you’re lucky, a fountain. They’re functional, sure, but they rarely feel like they were designed with any real conviction. Orchestra Park in Kunshan, China, by local studio SoBA, is a different kind of project altogether....

Pour-over coffee has never been a casual pursuit. It asks attention, patience, and a genuine interest in the variables between a bag of beans and a great cup. That commitment tends to attract a certain kind of person: someone who reads grinder reviews the way others read menus and talks freely about bloom times and...

The way divers go underwater hasn’t fundamentally changed much in decades. You strap tanks to your back, manage hoses, regulate breathing, and navigate a system of equipment that always feels bolted on rather than built in. The gear works, of course, but it keeps reminding you it’s there. Improvements have mostly...

Modern furniture design has been quietly shifting priorities. Smaller homes and more deliberate interiors have created real demand for pieces that do more without taking up more space or sacrificing how they look. Stools and side tables are easy targets for this kind of dual-purpose thinking, but most of them still...

Thomas Slim immersed their new EDC fountain pen in water for 24 hours, pulled it out, and it wrote immediately. They dropped both the fountain pen and rollerball versions fifteen times from one metre onto concrete, and aside from minor ink on the nib face, both kept writing without issue. They machined the internal...

Handheld gaming has just exploded in the last year or so with players like Ayaneo, Analouge, ANBERNIC and Retroid catching the pulse of handheld gamers. There’s one for every type of gamer, whether someone who likes things arcade, retro modern, or a demanding nerd who wants to have a compact console to play AAA...

Georgia has a claim on chess culture that goes deeper than most countries appreciate. The nation has produced grandmasters at a rate disproportionate to its size, and the game is woven into its educational and cultural identity in ways that feel genuinely foundational rather than ornamental. Given that context, the...

Most furniture earns its place in a room by being useful. The Nova Chaise-Lounge, designed by Stuttgart-based designer Deniz Aktay, earns it by being unforgettable. It is the kind of piece that stops a conversation the moment someone walks into the room, not because it announces itself loudly, but because it simply...

There was a period in the early 2000s when having your entire music library in your pocket felt like a miracle. The iPod did not invent portable music, but it made the experience so frictionless and so pleasurable that it genuinely changed how people related to listening. Nobody predicted that a click wheel and a hard...