Heartbreak made Olivia Rodrigo famous, then rage made her interesting. SOUR arrived as a teenage gut-punch of betrayal and longing, all trembling ballads and bedroom devastation. GUTS answered it two years later with distortion pedals and a sneer, the sound of someone who had cried enough and picked up an electric...
Twin Phone splits into two for users who don’t want to live with a dumb phone for the rest of their lives
Just when you think you’ve seen all the smartphone form factors – flip phones, triple-fold ones, ones with popping cameras, and whatnot – there’s still one more to surprise you. This is the Twin Phone designed to have the most flexible form factor you could imagine on a daily driver device. You can virtually...
Xiaomi Watch S5 46mm Review: Looking Good, Lasting Longer
PROS: Stylish and premium design Bright, vibrant display Excellent battery life CONS: Limited app ecosystem compared with Wear OS Sleep tracking can miss naps RATINGS: AESTHETICS ERGONOMICS PERFORMANCE SUSTAINABILITY / REPAIRABILITY VALUE FOR...
The Smartest Upgrade for Better Sleep Isn’t a New Mattress
We spend about a third of our lives asleep, and most of us are still doing it on the same basic setup we’ve had since forever: a mattress, some pillows, and a blanket we’re either kicking off or pulling back over our shoulders at 3 a.m. For something so essential to how we function every single day, every workout,...
5 Best Gadgets of June 2026 That Quietly Run Your Home in the Background
The best technology in your home shouldn’t announce itself. Not in the way a smart speaker waits for a wake word, or a connected display flashes notifications from across the room, but in the deeper sense of design that integrates so completely into daily life, it stops registering as technology at all. The products...
Rugged Phones Are Ugly, but FCNT Just Proved They Don’t Have to Be
Rugged smartphones have always carried an inherent compromise. They’re built to take punishment, so manufacturers typically bulk them up with thick rubber borders, angular shapes, and enough plastic to survive a construction site. The result is a phone that can handle almost anything but looks conspicuous in everyday...
BAPE x adidas Just Dropped the World Cup Collab No One Expected
World Cup fever is still very much here and while most brands scramble to slap national flags on whatever they can find, adidas Originals and BAPE® took a very different road. Their latest collaboration for FIFA World Cup 2026 doesn’t just dress you for the occasion. It makes a case for why football culture and...
The Titanium Chess Set That’s Also the Best EDC Object We’ve Seen
Chess has had a genuine cultural resurgence lately, finding its way into cafés, offices, and living rooms that wouldn’t have bothered with it a decade ago. But for all the renewed enthusiasm, the portable chess set hasn’t really evolved. Most options are flimsy plastic affairs that feel like an afterthought, with...
Samsung’s Rolling Display Phone begins taking shape just as Apple preps the iPhone Fold
Render based on schematic Samsung’s product roadmap for this year lists the TriFold and the Galaxy S26, with no rollable phone anywhere on it. A patent the company filed in May (uncovered by WearView) tells a different story about where its engineers are looking. The filing describes a Galaxy that slides open...
This Japanese Can Opener Removes the Entire Top and Makes Your Beer Taste Like Draft
Some can openers live at the back of a kitchen drawer, pulled out once a year and quickly forgotten. The DraftPro Top Can Opener belongs somewhere else entirely. Designed by award-winning Japanese designer Shu Kanno and built in Japan, it removes the entire top of a can in a single smooth motion, turning any beer,...