Most of us have a complicated relationship with music-making. We admire people who can pick up an instrument and just… play. We’ve maybe even tried it ourselves, signed up for guitar lessons that lasted exactly three weeks, or downloaded an app that promised to teach us a song a day. And then we moved on. Enya...

We spend an embarrassing amount of time choosing what to listen to. You open Spotify, scroll for fifteen minutes, start a playlist you’ve already heard a hundred times, and somehow feel like you’ve made a decision. You haven’t. You’ve just exhausted yourself before the music even started. The Atonemo NTS Radio...

The tent industry has spent decades obsessing over sleeping quarters. We’ve seen ultralight backpacking shelters, geodesic domes rated for basecamp conditions, glamping canvas suites with chandelier hooks and welcome mats. And yet somehow, the bathroom question, the single most pressing daily concern at any campsite,...

A modern creator’s desk looks different from how it did a decade ago. A 3D printer often sits where a sketchbook once lay, and filament rolls where stationery sets would sit. But this new method of creation has introduced its own unique challenge: post-processing. The work of transforming a raw print into a...

For over a century, a modest corner shop at the intersection of Murray and York streets in Melbourne’s Prahran suburb sold milk, bread, and the kind of everyday essentials that knit neighborhoods together. It closed in 2016, briefly reopened as a café, and then sat waiting. Kister Architects founder Ilana Kister saw...

Last year, Koenigsegg Saidair’s Spear, driven by the brand’s official test driver, set the record in the reverse-course configuration of the Goodwood Hill course. Now the Swedish hypercar manufacturer has brought the laurels back with a life-sized LEGO Saidair Spear to break the record for the fastest brick-built...

What would it look like for a building material to behave more like a living organism? Rameshwari Jonnalagedda has been sitting with that question, and Minimal Matter is her answer in clay. Drawing on the mathematics of minimal surfaces, geometries that appear in soap films, leaf veins, and cellular membranes, she has...

Every coat of paint on every car that ever rolled through an American assembly line left a ghost of itself somewhere. On the jigs, the racks, the fixtures that held body panels steady while the spray guns did their work, microscopic layers of overspray built up over years into something dense and multicolored and...

Most runners know the feeling. You’re a few miles in, the sun is beating down, and somewhere between the last water stop and the next one, you’re already behind. You’ve read the articles. You know hydration matters. And yet, you still have no real idea if you’re actually drinking enough, or too much, or the...

PROS: Excellent QWERTY keyboard Thoughtful software features Sharp 4.03-inch AMOLED display CONS: 33W charging feels a little slow Cameras are unremarkable Mono speaker lacks depth RATINGS: AESTHETICS ERGONOMICS PERFORMANCE SUSTAINABILITY /...