A camera with no screen sounds like a step backward. It is, by design. And that’s exactly the point. We live in an era where every piece of technology is racing to give you more. More features, more connectivity, more reasons to stay glued to a display. And here comes a small, cheerful little camera doing the...

Most lamps ask very little of you. They sit in corners, cast light, get switched off. Electric Rocks, a new collectible luminaire by British designer Mark Mitchell for Italian marble company Serafini, refuses to be ignored. It is two blocks of marble split open by a bolt of lightning, and the lightning is still there,...

Most home robots ask a lot from the room they inhabit. They arrive with screens, speakers, wake words, and personalities, all requiring acknowledgment from whoever happens to be nearby. The interaction model is fundamentally borrowed from smartphones: alerts, prompts, and responses delivered through layers of...

The phone is always the easy answer. Timer goes off — reach for it. Stuck on a thought — reach for it. Five minutes later, you’ve watched three videos and forgotten what you were working on. The real cost of deep work isn’t effort; it’s attention. And attention is exactly what these five desk objects are...

 Steve Jobs pulled the original MacBook Air out of a manila envelope in 2008 and the laptop industry never recovered. What followed was nearly two decades of manufacturers treating thinness as the primary measure of ambition. Apple refined the aluminum unibody chassis into a design language so influential that Dell,...

Let’s be honest, gaming PC case designs have gone overboard over the last few years. There’s too much RGB involved, and most gamers enjoy it for a few days before the blinding lights become more distracting than immersive. Somewhere along the way, many PC makers seem to have forgotten that not every enthusiast...

Something significant happened in Bezannes, France — and the construction industry should be paying close attention. ViliaSprint², Europe’s largest 3D-printed apartment building, has been completed, and it arrives less as a proof of concept and more as a genuine blueprint for what housing could look like moving...

Most of us don’t think twice about the can we grab from the fridge. You reach, you pop, you drink. But Pepsi Max is betting that at least some of us will stop, look twice, and maybe even squeal a little when the can in our hand starts changing colour right before our eyes. That’s the premise behind Pepsi Max’s...

Somewhere between 2018 and now, the charcuterie board became the defining food aesthetic of the internet age. What started as a French butcher’s tradition evolved into a Pinterest obsession, a TikTok flex, and eventually a full-blown cultural phenomenon where the arrangement of cured meats and artisan cheeses became...

The youngest person at BEYOND Expo 2026’s AI Hack Day was nine years old. That little fact, shared by co-founder Dr Lu Gang, actually says more about the state of AI than any big product launch. It means the tools are getting simple enough that you don’t need a PhD to build something interesting; you just need a...