The PlayStation 5’s DualSense controller is genuinely excellent for most kinds of gaming. Haptic feedback and adaptive triggers have added a new layer of immersion to mainstream titles, and the ergonomics are comfortable enough for long sessions. But competitive gaming operates by a different set of priorities, where...
Remember When Rose Gold Took Over Everything? Apple Is Trying That Again With Dark Cherry
Rose Gold did not just sell iPhones. It rewired the consumer electronics industry’s entire relationship with color, spawning a decade of blush-tinted Samsung flagships, Beats headphones, Dell XPS laptops, Dyson hairdryers, and KitchenAid stand mixers that are still arriving on shelves today. Apple introduced it in...
This Portable Keyboard Has a 13-Inch 4K Touchscreen Built In, and It Fits in Your Laptop Sleeve
Closed, the VitaLink looks like a very flat book, silver, about the footprint of a large paperback, with nothing to suggest it carries a 4K display inside. At 20mm thick with a CNC-machined aluminum shell, it weighs 1200 grams and travels the way a slim notebook does; it fits in a laptop sleeve, takes up a predictable...
Mass Timber, Passive House, & a Curving Roof: This Canadian Community Centre Is the Civic Building Other Cities Should Be Copying
There’s a version of a public building that checks all the sustainability boxes and still feels cold, institutional, and somehow indifferent to the people it’s meant to serve. The new Marpole Community Centre is not that building. Designed by Diamond Schmitt for the City of Vancouver and the Vancouver Board of...
This Designer’s Ferrari SC250 Concept Takes the Legendary 250 GTO to Its Logical Extreme
Only 36 Ferrari 250 GTOs were ever built between 1962 and 1964, and one of them sold privately for $70 million in 2018. The body was shaped by Sergio Scaglietti working metal directly over the frame, piece by piece, without drawings, which means the most valuable car in the world was essentially hand-sculpted from...
This Table Lets Four Woods Melt Into One Beautiful Gradient
The Color Gradient Table is a piece that understands something very simple, but often overlooked: wood already has color. It does not need to be overly treated, disguised, or forced into becoming something else. Instead, this design begins by paying attention to the natural tones already present in different wood...
The Biggest Lord of the Rings LEGO Set Ever Just Dropped
I’ve been a LEGO adult fan long enough to know that the announcement of a new flagship set usually lands with a mix of excitement and skepticism. Is it actually as good as it looks? Is the price justified? Will it sit beautifully on a shelf or just collect dust after a frustrating build? With the newly revealed LEGO...
Wilson Benesch’s $130,000 Greenwich turntable arrives at HIGH END Vienna this June for audiophiles seeking sonic perfection
For more than four decades, the global high-end audio industry revolved around one annual ritual in Munich. Every May engineers, and audiophiles gathered at HIGH END Munich to witness the future of analog playback. In 2026, that tradition changes dramatically as the show relocates to the Austria Center Vienna for its...
A Pencil Sharpener Inspired This Brilliant Camping Cutlery Tool
There are probably times when you’re in desperate need of chopsticks when you’re camping out or somewhere where you don’t have access to it. Well apparently now you’ll be able to make your own, as long as there are pieces of wood around you. I’ve seen a lot of clever camping gear over the years, but the...
PLANK Made a Folding Chair You’d Never Want to Put Away
Folding chairs have a reputation problem. For most of us, they conjure up images of bare banquet halls, plastic legs scraping across gymnasium floors, or that wobbly stack in the back of a relative’s garage. They are furniture by necessity, not by choice. So when a design studio manages to make one that you’d...