Spending a week or a month at length on an expansive Cruise ship is on many people’s wish list. The Royal Caribbean’s Icon of the Seas, having a maximum capacity of 7,600 passengers, is right up there. It is currently the largest cruise you can book for a very long time, if you’ve got money to spare, of course....

In the age of artificial intelligence, when you can tell the computer what you want, and it builds it for you, something seems missing. Maybe a wearable input device that would let you interact, code and build using AI, and you wouldn’t even have to move a muscle. Introducing the Monako Glass, the world’s first...

Visit the Sagrada Família in person and it overwhelms you in a way that no single photograph or video ever could. I was there in March, and I remember thinking that Gaudí didn’t design a building so much as he composed a three-dimensional argument about what architecture could be, organic, mathematical, spiritual,...

For something built to play vinyl, the PP-1 barely behaves like a turntable at all. There’s no tonearm visually staking its claim across the platter, no exposed hardware reminding you this is an analog ritual machine. Instead, it looks like someone took the clean, self-contained logic of a CD player, scaled it up to...

When Apple priced the MacBook Neo at $599 earlier this year, the reaction from the Windows side of the industry was roughly equivalent to a student showing up to a spelling bee having never studied. Manufacturers who had been selling mediocre plastic laptops at $700 and $800 suddenly had a very visible, very beautiful...

When Japanese designer Muto Yumi set out to make furniture from paper, the result was not what most people would imagine. No papier-mâché. No origami-inspired folding. No cardboard box aesthetics salvaged and called art. What she produced is a modular furniture system so structurally sound and visually precise that...

Smart speakers have become some of the most visually forgettable objects in modern homes. A cylinder, a puck, a fabric-wrapped drum, placed wherever the Wi-Fi is strong and largely invisible once the novelty wears off. They do their jobs well enough, but none of them look like they belong in a collection or on a desk...

Product design has always been part craft, part communication. Getting a concept from sketch to client approval demands a level of visual storytelling that most designers simply haven’t had the budget or tools to manage on their own. Video production, in particular, has long been the step that gets quietly skipped,...

The much-awaited FIFA World Cup kicks off with an opener between co-hosts Mexico and South Africa at Mexico City Stadium on 12 June. While the fandom and the love for the most popular sport on earth remain constant off the field, there is a lot that’s changing on the field. The Virtual Assistant Referee (VAR) is...

When Leica announced the Cine Compact 1, my first reaction landed somewhere between genuine curiosity and mild skepticism. Leica is a camera brand. A camera brand, the kind photographers carry like a quiet badge of honor, the kind that has defined a certain visual language for over a century. And now they want to...