What’s the precursor of the computer? The typewriter, of course. Taking things the other way around, a DIYer has built a gaming PC inside an old typewriter for the sake of technology. First of its kind, this DIY is all about building everything from scratch to have a typewriter that works better than your average...
7 Best Minimal Valentine’s Gifts Under $150 That Outlast Roses
Roses wilt. Chocolates disappear. Cards gather dust in drawers. There’s nothing wrong with tradition, but this year calls for something different—gifts that don’t expire with the season. Minimal design offers a solution: objects that carry intention without noise, crafted to be used, touched, and remembered long...
Aram Just Released a Numbered Edition of This 100-Year Chair
Aram just dropped something special for design collectors: an exclusive limited edition of Eileen Gray’s iconic Bibendum chair, released to celebrate the 100th anniversary of its 1926 debut. This isn’t your standard reissue. This is a numbered, centenary edition of one of modernism’s most distinctive pieces, and...
The 2026 Olympic Torch That Knows When to Disappear
Right now, as the 2026 Winter Olympics torch relay makes its final journey through Milan toward tonight’s opening ceremony at San Siro Stadium, Carlo Ratti’s design is doing something revolutionary. It’s getting out of its own way. The MIT professor and architect didn’t set out to create another sculptural...
MOFT Dynamic Folio Case Turns a Single Sheet into an iPad Origami Desk
iPads have quietly become laptops, sketchbooks, second monitors, and TV screens, while most cases still only prop them up at two angles or turn them into heavy keyboard bricks. The pile of stands and folios people accumulate, one for drawing, one for watching, one for travel, never solves the “I just want one thing...
Smart Pilates At Home: Why This Foldable Reformer Might Replace Your Expensive Studio Membership
Reformer Pilates studios charge $35 to $60 per class. If you go twice a week, you’re spending roughly $300 to $500 every month. Three months of that schedule costs more than Pavo’s $899 price tag. Six months in, you’ve paid double what the machine costs. And you’re still driving across town to work out on...
Tiny Houses Can’t Sleep Four? This 26-Footer Just Proved That Wrong
Romania’s Eco Tiny House has crafted something special with their Tiny Hogwarts model, a compact dwelling that challenges everything you think you know about space limitations. Measuring just 8 meters (26 feet) in length and offering 18.7 square meters of living space, this tiny house on wheels manages to sleep up to...
Someone Built a Working Mini Printing Press Out of LEGO and You Can Operate It
Before Gutenberg changed the world with movable type, knowledge traveled slowly, copied by hand from monastery to monastery. The printing press democratized information and sparked revolutions in science, religion, and politics. Now, a LEGO creator known as PrintNerd has brought that revolutionary technology into the...
Samsung’s New Wearable Audio Concept Looks More Like Jewelry Than Tech
Wearable technology has spent too long looking like wearable technology. Slac breaks that mold with a refreshingly honest approach: if something lives on your body all day, it should look like it belongs there. The circular ear ring and accompanying wrist piece read more like contemporary jewelry than consumer...
This Fold-Out Office Desk Acknowledges the Furry Friend Under Your Feet
Office design has long focused on the visible: posture, productivity, aesthetics, and efficiency at eye level. But Central Bark, a desk designed by Chrissy Fehan for DARRAN, asks a quieter and more unusual question: what happens in the space beneath the desk? At its surface, Central Bark looks exactly like what you...