Most electric motorcycles still behave like motorcycles first and utility machines second. They chase performance numbers, oversized displays, or aggressive styling while ignoring a simple reality: most urban riders just want something practical enough to replace short car trips. The ANY LUV1 approaches the problem...
This Architect Built a 20m² Red Cabin on Her Family’s Greek Vineyard — and It’s the Antidote to Every Concrete Villa on the Island
Somewhere between the olive groves and vine rows of Zakynthos, a deep-red timber cabin sits quietly in the Greek countryside, and it’s one of the most considered small structures to come out of Europe this year. The Root Cabin, designed by London-based studio Kasawoo, is a 20-square-metre prefabricated retreat that...
Objects With Opinions: Ronen Kadushin’s Pieces
There are designers who make beautiful things, and then there are designers who make things that make you think. Ronen Kadushin belongs firmly in the second camp, and his latest collection, Pieces, is proof that a home accessory can be both genuinely useful and quietly subversive. The collection consists of three...
Forget Your Old Loadout — 5 EDC Essentials Built for Summer 2026
Summer 2026 is a different kind of season for EDC. The carry conversation has matured past keychain gimmicks and bulk-heavy multitools into something sharper; gear that’s actually thought through, built from aerospace-grade materials, and designed with the same care as the objects that live on your desk. These five...
The Memdock G3 Is the 13-Port Dock You Don’t Have to Hide Anymore
Modern desks have never looked better. Sit-stand tables, cable management trays, and ultra-thin laptops have turned the average workspace into something worth showing off. But for all the effort that goes into making a desk look clean and intentional, the accessories that actually power it are often still a mess, and...
This LEGO VHS Player Actually Has Cassettes You Can Insert and Remove
Before streaming queues and binge-watching algorithms rewired how we consume film and television, there was a ritual. You drove to the video store, walked the aisles, made your pick, and came home to slide that chunky black cassette into a slot that swallowed it with a satisfying mechanical thunk. The VCR wasn’t just...
Woven by Hand in the Philippines, Sold in Milan
Most lamps just sit there. They do their job, emit their light, and fade into the background of a room. Mirei Monticelli’s lamps are the kind you keep looking at. The Milan-based Filipina designer has built her practice around a single material: banaca, a woven textile made from the fibers of the banana-abaca plant,...
This $35,000 Tiny Home Proves You Don’t Need More Than 161 Square Feet to Live Well
At 20 feet long and 8 feet wide, the Tulsi by Simplify Further Tiny Homes doesn’t try to be anything it isn’t. It has everything you need, and nothing you don’t. That restraint is exactly what makes it work. While the tiny home market is crowded with builds that either sacrifice livability for aesthetics or pile...
Waymo’s Self-Driving Car Saw the Flood and Drove In Anyway. Here’s The Problem Plaguing Every Robotaxi.
Every sensor on a Waymo robotaxi sees the world in layers. The LiDAR maps it in three dimensions, radar bounces through it, and cameras read it in color and contrast, building a composite picture of the road that no human retina could match at the same fidelity. So when a Waymo encountered a flooded section of a 40 mph...
Ovrlnd’s new pop-up camper turns 1980s Mini truck into two-person adventure home
Ovrland Campers may have dropped vowels from its name for clipped branding, but it does not drop a spec when it comes to creating pick-up campers. The Flagstaff, scenic mountain city in Northern Arizona, based builder has a keen eye for detail, an example of which can be seen in the introductory video of the Mini...