Not bad for a company barely two years old. Kickback, an NYC-based electronics startup, makes this RETRADISC, a Bluetooth-enabled CD player. It came out last year, and has already been picked up by the MoMA Design Store. The transparent player is aimed at the Gen Z and Millennial set who fully grasp the evils of...
1X Now Taking Pre-Orders for NEO, a Humanoid Servant Robot
Well, it's happening. This week California-based 1X Technologies started taking orders for their NEO, a humanoid robot that acts as a household servant. The 5'6 'bot can do laundry, tidy up the house, fetch objects, carry groceries, water plants, open doors for guests and more. The robot is fully autonomous. For...
5 Best Tiny Homes Of October 2025
October 2025 has been absolutely incredible for tiny home enthusiasts. We’ve seen designs that push boundaries, challenge conventions, and prove that small spaces can deliver big on style and functionality. These aren’t your typical cookie-cutter tiny houses cramming everything into a loft bedroom. Instead, we’re...
from chicken-like shelters to spiky wooden huts, hello wood’s cabin fever lands in czechia
Cabin Fever 2025 explores architecture as Shared Social Act Cabin Fever 2025, organized by Hello Wood, took place in Česká Kamenice, Czech Republic, on the grounds of a former textile factory and wartime labor camp. The event combined an international summer school and design-build festival under the theme ‘Quality...
recycled 3D printed rooftop homes explore adaptable urban living at 2025 venice biennale
Tiny Penthouses: adaptive Architecture by Hedwig Heinsman Tiny Penthouses is an ongoing art and architecture project by Hedwig Heinsman that investigates how recycled materials and additive manufacturing can generate adaptable forms of housing. Presented at the 19th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale...
electric bubble car for kids drives them to places on its own and without adults on board
Toyota unveils mobi at japan mobility show 2025 Toyota reveals mobi during Japan Mobility Show 2025, an electric bubble car for kids that takes them anywhere on its own and without adult supervision on board. On view at the event between October 30th and November 9th, the prototype forms part of the company’s...
Keycaps Shaped Like Tiny Retro TVs Take 47 Hours to Handcraft
For anyone who spends hours at a keyboard, the desk becomes more than just a workspace. It’s a personal canvas for self-expression and creativity. Keyboards are no longer just tools for typing, but a way to express personality, nostalgia, and a love for design in the smallest details. Every keycap, color, and texture...
Technics SL-1200 Final Edition: Only 2,410 Gold Units Worldwide
Some legends never really die. They just get better with age, more refined, and sometimes, a little bit of gold. That’s exactly what Technics is doing with their latest drop: the SL-1200GME Master Edition, a turntable that’s equal parts tribute and technological tour de force. If you’ve ever spent time in a...
galerie philia activates two brutalist landmarks in grand paris for its 10th anniversary show
Design meets brutalism in Galerie Philia’s tenth-anniversary show To celebrate its tenth anniversary, Galerie Philia presents STRATES, a large-scale exhibition staged across two of France’s most emblematic brutalist landmarks: Jacques Kalisz’s Mont d’Est car park and Ricardo Bofill’s Espaces Abraxas in...
in aristides dallas architects’ residence, terraces open like petals toward the aegean horizon
ARISTIDES DALLAS sculpts residence BORN FROM THE EARTH in greece On the sun-bleached island of Schinousa, Greece, Aristides Dallas Architects crafts Maison Cheval as a residence inseparable from the ground it inhabits. Conceived as a structure drawn out of the land, the project follows the undulating topography of the...