Large Android tablets have long occupied an awkward middle ground. They’re capable enough to replace a laptop for basic tasks, but the best ones tend to carry prices that push them out of reach for most people. Apple’s iPad Pro remains the benchmark, but it demands a premium few can justify. Smaller competitors...

Foldable phones have gone from novelties to genuine daily drivers, but the category still wrestles with two persistent complaints: battery anxiety and cameras that don’t quite match their non-folding counterparts. The big names have made progress on both fronts, though rarely at the same time, and rarely without some...

Triple screen setups are widely considered the socially acceptable limit to a multi-screen setup. Take your laptop, add a screen to the left, one to the right, and you have a panoramic multi-display array for effortless multitasking. The reason 3 displays is widely considered the agreeable upper limit, is because a...

Cat trees are rarely the most beautiful objects in a home. They are often tall, scratchy, beige, awkwardly shaped, and treated as something to be tolerated rather than celebrated. Swedish designer Gustaf Westman seems to have taken that as a challenge. With his new Chunky Cat Tree, he reimagines the everyday pet...

Slow architecture asks a simple but powerful question: should buildings be designed for short-term trends or for the next hundred years? At a time when much of construction is driven by speed, cost-cutting, and fast-changing aesthetics, this approach brings the focus back to durability, function, and long-term value....

I spend a lot of time in cities. Airports, subway stations, coffee shop benches, those weird little plazas that exist between office buildings where nobody actually looks at each other. And every single time, I notice the same thing: we’ve gotten very good at designing spaces for bodies, and very bad at designing...

We’ve gotten pretty comfortable letting technology tell us how to sleep, how many steps to take, and when to breathe. The next frontier, apparently, is letting it tell our brain how to feel, and somehow, a headset called Nudge makes that sound less dystopian than you’d expect. Designed by San Francisco-based studio...

In April 2024, a design page called Inspiring Designs posted a few images of a gorilla-shaped couch. The gorilla’s arms curved into armrests. Its chest and stomach formed the back and seat cushion. On TikTok, the images passed 500,000 likes before most people had fully processed what they were looking at. Comment...

If you’ve ever hosted a dinner party and counted chairs two hours before guests arrived, you know the panic. Do you have enough? Do you have too many? Will you end up dragging that awkward stool from the kitchen that nobody actually wants to sit on? It’s a problem so mundane that most designers don’t even try to...

Most apartment buildings do their best work from the outside. A striking facade, a bold roofline, some smart use of glass and steel, and the job is considered done. La Vallée Verte, MVRDV’s recently completed residential project in Bordeaux, operates on a completely different logic. From the street, it is almost...