Smartwatches have had an impressive run, but the category is starting to feel a bit crowded and tired. Most recent releases have been iterative, adding a sensor here or a display tweak there, while the core form stays essentially the same: a small screen on your wrist buzzing at you constantly. Consumers are starting...

Home fitness equipment has quietly moved into the living room, but most of it hasn’t earned its place there. Dumbbells in particular are purely functional objects, usually made with rubber-coated iron and sold on practical merits alone. They get used, then tucked away or left on the floor because nobody really wants...

Shoehorns have been around for centuries, and their design has barely moved. Most are anonymous strips of plastic or metal that live behind closet doors and rarely see daylight unless someone’s wrestling with a stiff new pair of shoes. They do one job, they do it acceptably, and then they disappear. It’s a category...

If you told me five years ago that Hermès would release a DJ table, I’d have assumed it was a joke told at a fashion party where nobody laughed. And yet here we are, looking at the Atelier Horizons Disque Jockey Club: a fully functioning DJ setup built in mahogany and wrapped in Pippa cowhide, with Japanese...

Ferrari has been quietly working under the wraps to design an electric sports car in collaboration with LoveFrom, led by Jony Ive and Marc Newson. After much speculation and a run of rumors for quite some time, the Maranello-based car maker has finally revealed Luce, its first-ever electric sports car, to the world,...

Summer edits your carry down to what actually earns its place. Pockets get shallower, days stretch longer, and the patience for objects that solve problems you don’t have disappears entirely. What survives that edit is a specific kind of thing — gear that performs with such quiet consistency you stop noticing it,...

All-in-one computers have always promised clean desks, but they rarely deliver a truly minimal presence. Traditional AiOs hide their processors inside their displays, and those chips generate enough heat to demand substantial cooling, adding bulk to what should be a space-saving device. The result is often a thick,...

Forty-one percent of people have folded towels while on a work call. One in five have taken meetings from a makeshift setup in their child’s bedroom. Logitech’s own research surfaced these numbers, and they carry the ring of something widely felt but rarely acknowledged. The idea that work and home occupy separate...

Cork has spent decades being underestimated. Wine stoppers, bulletin boards, yoga mats, the occasional floor tile. Somewhere along the way, a material with genuinely remarkable engineering properties got slotted into the background of everyday objects. That changed when designers started paying attention to cork’s...

Forty years is a long time to wait for a building. But when you see what’s rising in Abidjan, the delay starts to feel almost intentional — like the city was simply holding its breath for the right moment. Tour F, the supertall skyscraper currently piercing the skyline of Ivory Coast’s economic capital, was first...