About ten years ago, designer Adam C Miller made a pillbox for a close friend living with an invisible illness. The standard option available to her was the familiar hard plastic pharmacy organizer, practical enough, but hardly something anyone would want to carry proudly or leave out in the open. Miller decided she...
An Ex-Alibaba Exec Spent 12 Years Building the Smart Glasses that Google Couldn’t
The story of Google Glass is a well-worn legend in Silicon Valley. It was a product so far ahead of its time that it became a cultural phenomenon and then a punchline, a symbol of technological overreach and social awkwardness. The project was ultimately shelved, a high-profile monument to a future that arrived too...
This Tiny House Under 36 Square Meters Sleeps Six — and Looks Incredible Doing It
Tiny house culture has spent years fighting the perception that downsizing means settling. The Porto, designed by Portuguese builder Casagaea, makes that argument feel outdated. Built on a double-axle trailer and wrapped in engineered wood cladding, it arrives in two sizes — a 7.8-meter frame at 34.2 square meters,...
Every Robot You’ll Ever Own Has 3 Separate Brains: Nvidia VP explains how AI Thinks at BEYOND Expo 2026
A robot on a factory floor may look self-contained, but Deepu Talla says its intelligence is distributed across a hidden chain of machines. At BEYOND Expo 2026, the NVIDIA executive broke robotics down into a deceptively simple formula: three computers. One handles the heavy lifting of training the robot brain, another...
XREAL Just Partnered With Google to Build the Smart Glasses Apple Can’t
BEYOND Expo 2026 had no shortage of AI talk, but one of its most compelling hardware stories came in the shape of a pair of glasses. On stage in Macau, XREAL CEO Xu Chi laid out a vision for AI glasses as the next major personal computing device and revealed that XREAL is working with Google on a new product built...
The $899 Desktop CNC That Impressed Asia’s Biggest Tech Expo
The guiding idea at BEYOND Expo 2026 was that AI software has finished its warm-up, and the main event is technology that acts in the physical world. Humanoid robots, intelligent wearables, and autonomous vehicles all made that case. So when the Makera Z1, a compact desktop CNC machine, won a Best of Innovation award,...
This Concept Organizes the First 30 Seconds of Coming Home in the Rain
Home entryway products have a coverage problem. A shoe rack deals with footwear, but not the umbrella. An umbrella stand handles the wet item but does nothing for the dripping floor around it. A small tray catches keys but not the daily chaos that accompanies them. The pieces exist, but they don’t form a coherent...
This $249 Phone Becomes a Game Console With One $29 Snap-On Tile
Feature phones have been having something of a quiet comeback, driven largely by people who are tired of the attention-capturing machinery baked into modern smartphones. Most of what’s on the market offers a stripped-back feature set with very little room to grow. Calls, texts, maybe a basic camera, and that’s...
A Folding Chair Designed to Stay Out, Not Hide Away
I have a complicated relationship with folding chairs. Not a hostile one, just complicated. They are one of those objects that exist in a permanent state of apology: useful when you need them, embarrassing when you don’t, and almost always the first thing you hide before company arrives. The folding chair has never...
Nothing Book laptop concept let’s you be more expressive with a slender secondary screen on the lid
Nothing has revived and redefined the see-through design aesthetics that blew up in the late 1990s and early 2000s. That era was highlighted by colorful polycarbonate plastic material for translucent casings for the futuristic, fun vibe. Carl Pie took the bold step and weaved his brand’s design philosophy around...