Phone cases change often. New phone, new case, new colour, and those old cases quietly pile up in drawers or end up in landfill. The accessory industry treats cases as fast fashion, even though the phone inside is already a major environmental hit. Gomi is a small Brighton studio trying to slow that churn down with a...
Norm Lamp’s Body and Pods Are Cut From the Same Aluminum Tube
Many contemporary pendant lamps hide a surprising amount of complexity, multiple materials, custom housings, and plastic diffusers layered around a simple LED strip. That often leads to wasteful production and tricky recycling once the fixture breaks or goes out of style. Norm is a response that asks what happens if...
Your Car Now Has Its Own Fitness-Tracking ‘Smartwatch’, and It Costs Less Than $60
Your smartwatch does not just count steps. It listens to your heart, your sleep, your stress, and builds a holistic picture of how your body is doing. GOOLOO’s DS200 DeepScan treats a car with the same level of curiosity. Tucked into the OBD2 port, it becomes a kind of automotive smartwatch, constantly sampling...
Mercedes-Benz reimagines the stellar Unimog with a sublime touch of luxury
Mercedes-Benz has unveiled what could be the most luxurious Unimog ever built, marking a distinctive moment in the model’s nearly eight-decade history. Created by Mercedes-Benz Special Trucks in collaboration with Hellgeth Engineering, this one-off show vehicle celebrates the Unimog’s 80th anniversary in 2026 by...
This Extra-Wide Tiny House Has A Ground-Floor Bedroom & A Real Bathtub
The tiny house movement has always been about intentional living and simplicity, but it’s never demanded that comfort be part of the trade-off. Vancouver Island’s Rewild Homes proves this point brilliantly with the Juniper, an extra-wide tiny house that challenges everything you thought you knew about small-space...
Hisense Reimagines Domestic Space Through Modularity and Ergonomic Intelligence at CES 2026
Modularity. The word appears constantly in appliance marketing, usually meaning nothing more than optional accessories. Hisense’s CES 2026 lineup treats it as structural philosophy. The home appliance category has long resisted meaningful design evolution. Refrigerators grow larger. Washers add cycles. Connectivity...
These Pendant Lamps Are Cast From Recycled Lava in 8mm Thin Shells
Foscarini has a habit of pushing lighting beyond glass and metal, experimenting with concrete, fabric, and now molten rock. The brand often treats materials as the starting point rather than the afterthought, asking what unexpected substances can become when wrapped around a light source. The Eolie collection continues...
8BitDo Partners with Pro Esports Players Vxbao and Zhen for $95 Transparent Purple Arcade Controller
The whole transparent tech thing is funny, isn’t it? It felt like a gimmick that died with the 90s, a design language reserved for our collective memory of Atomic Purple N64 controllers and translucent Game Boy Colors. Yet here we are, watching it cycle back into the enthusiast space with a vengeance. It’s a clever...
Human-Sized Pokéball Stands At 6 Feet Tall (And Has A Gaming Room Inside)
Someone finally built a life-sized Pokéball you can actually climb inside, and honestly, it’s about damn time. For nearly three decades, we’ve been throwing these things at Pidgeys and Rattatas without ever really knowing what happens when that button clicks and the whole thing seals shut. The anime gave us vague...
This Phone Concept Stacks a 3.5-Inch LCD Above a 5.2-Inch E Ink Screen
Modern phones have turned into pocket TVs, huge OLED slabs that are great for video and games but terrible for focus. Most E Ink phones go to the opposite extreme, either dropping color screens entirely or putting an E Ink panel on the back while keeping a full-size color display on the front. This dual-screen concept...