Some flashlights live at the back of a junk drawer, half-dead batteries and all, and then some tools earn permanent nightstand status. The BlackoutBeam Tactical Flashlight belongs in the second category. With 2300 lumens and a 300-meter throw, it outperforms gear twice its size, and it does it inside a body slim enough...
Snøhetta Wraps a New Miami Design District Office Building in a Stainless Mesh Sunscreen
Miami’s Design District has quietly become one of the most architecturally charged neighborhoods in the United States, and Snøhetta’s latest project only deepens that case. The Oslo and New York-based studio has unveiled designs for Sweetbird North, an eight-storey mixed-use building developed by Raycliff Capital,...
This Mooncake Tin Box Turns Into A Chinese Lantern Once You’re Done Enjoying The Sweets
Back in the 90s, every packaging was a craft project. Milk cartons were turned into pen-stands, Pringles cans into kaleidoscopes, Coca-Cola bottles into backyard rockets… and that approach made a lot more sense than throwing packaging into the waste bin. We’d go out of our way to repurpose these objects, giving...
Two Cor-Ten A-Frames Lined in Oiled Ironbark and Brass Are NSW’s Most Compelling Retreat
Most architects talk about restraint. Casey Brown Architecture actually practices it — and with Permanent Camping III (PC3), the Sydney-based firm delivers its most resolved chapter yet in an ongoing series rooted in the idea that shelter, stripped bare, is its own form of luxury. PC3 sits on a working sheep farm...
Color Shifting Defenders with meaty power are the most unique Land Rovers on the planet
How far will you go to customize your favorite ride if money is not a problem? I guess we’ve just seen the pinnacle of a motorhead’s love for Defenders go absolutely wild. A fat-pocketed client had commissioned Land Rover Classic – restomod shop for customizing and restoring classic Defenders – for one of the...
LAYER Just Made a 65W Charger You’d Actually Want on Your Desk
At some point, most of us stopped caring what our charging setup looks like. A tangle of cables here, a plastic brick there, maybe a few adapters scattered across the desk like tech confetti. It works, so why fuss? London-based design studio LAYER is making the case that we’ve been setting the bar way too low, and...
This Scandinavian Tiny Home Has a Dedicated Office & Trades Wheels For 39 Square Meters of Smarter Living
Tiny living has never looked this composed. Vagabond Haven, the Scandinavian tiny home builder known for architect-designed structures built to withstand year-round Nordic conditions, taps directly into that feeling with their latest modular offering: the Lucia. The Lucia sits in Vagabond Haven’s modular homes...
Mo & A Turned a Mitsubishi Taillight Into a Night Stand
Most furniture draws its inspiration from architecture, nature, or the clean geometric vocabulary of modernist design. Occasionally, a designer looks at the back of a van and decides that’s the most interesting starting point in the room. That’s exactly what happened at Mo & A, the Taipei and London-based...
8BitDo’s Pro Fight Pad Has a Screen That Replaces the Companion App
Fighting game hardware has become its own obsession. Serious players spend as much time agonizing over their controller choice as they do drilling combos, and the debate between joystick traditionalists and leverless converts shows no sign of cooling down. The leverless controller strips the directional stick out...
Ayaneo Pocket Micro 2 handheld gets better ergonomic design, boasts beefier battery inside
Ayaneo has a good foothold in the portable console gaming market with its versatile handhelds for every type of gamer. It wasn’t surprising that their upcoming Android-powered handheld was pretty much on the hype train and shrouded in speculative leaks for a few weeks. Now, the fog has finally cleared, and Ayaneo has...