At the mouth of Taiwan’s Tamsui River, a new landmark has quietly redrawn the skyline. The Danjiang Bridge, designed by Zaha Hadid Architects, has opened as the world’s longest single-mast, asymmetric cable-stayed bridge — a record-breaking piece of infrastructure that manages to feel more like a gesture than an...

Outdoor lighting is usually seen as something practical. It lights up a pathway, softens a garden, marks an entrance, or creates a mood after dark. Oberhauserer’s Balloon takes that familiar idea and pushes it into a more experimental space. Designed by Martin Oberhauser, the lamp brings together concrete, light, and...

Meta’s Ray-Ban smart glasses sold over 7 million units in 2025, a number that would have seemed improbable two years earlier when the category barely existed outside enterprise pilots and conference demos. Google confirmed its own entry at I/O 2026, with Gemini-powered frames and eyewear partnerships with Warby...

Bang & Olufsen built its reputation on the idea that audio equipment should be worthy of the spaces it inhabits. Bas Kamp’s ONCE concept takes that idea and sharpens it into something more intimate. A headphone fitted once, precisely, to a single person. A form that carries the geometry of classic over-ear...

Books have always held secrets. Marginalia scrawled by long-dead readers, watermarks pressed into pulp centuries ago, the particular weight of a first edition in your hands. But Manual, a new project by Studio Darius Ou and Benson Chong, holds a different kind of secret entirely: the literal code of its own making,...

When mainstream smartphone designs became too generic, the next evolution took the form of foldable phones. These devices, targeted towards power users who want the dual utility of a phone and a tablet in one, are quite popular and becoming mainstream, so much so that their look and feel have again come full circle and...

Handheld gaming has grown into a serious market, but no single device has managed to satisfy every trade-off at once. The Nintendo Switch sacrifices power for portability, the Steam Deck adds weight and Linux friction, and the ROG Ally costs too much while battery anxiety lingers. Every existing option addresses one...

Android tablets have long defaulted to 16:9 screens, a ratio optimized for video that leaves them awkward for anything resembling actual work. Documents get letterboxed, web pages feel narrow, and the creative canvas ends up shorter than it should be. That works well for watching but not for producing, which is why the...

Gaming PCs have fractured into more categories than any single device can cover. The player who needs maximum frame rates for competitive play sits on one end, the person who just wants to game from the couch without moving their rig sits on the other, and every setup in between has its own distinct demands. Most...

The laptop has become the default portable workstation, but it has one limitation that’s hard to overlook: you’re still stuck with one screen. Freelancers, students, and remote workers have learned to manage with a single panel, but demand for more display real estate on the go keeps growing. Cramming a...