Flying solo tied to a jetpack is a dream we have been savoring for quite some time now. And since movies like the Transformers, the idea of transforming Autobots has been another craze humanity is chasing for various applications. In China, robotics company Unitree has made the idea of humans piloting transforming...

The kitchen counter is prime real estate. Most appliances waste it, sitting there looking generic and visually forgettable until they get pushed to the back and eventually into a box. A smaller category of kitchen objects earns that space differently. They are worth looking at, whether in use or not. The ten products...

Smartphone photography has come a long way, but there’s always been a tension between what these cameras can do and what serious photographers actually want from them. Most flagships rely on heavy computational processing that smooths, brightens, and sharpens images into something generically appealing. For...

Staying comfortable outdoors during a heatwave has always been a matter of seeking shade, chasing air-conditioned spaces, or resigning yourself to a slow, sweaty defeat. Portable fans help somewhat, but they cool the air around you rather than you directly. As wearable technology continues to push into everyday life,...

Business laptops have gotten remarkably thin over the years, but the tradeoffs are hard to ignore. Repairability has taken a back seat to aesthetics, battery life has been sacrificed for slim profiles, and enterprise users often end up with devices that look great on paper but wear out faster than they should....

Digital art tools have gotten remarkably good at reading pressure and tilt, two of the three physical inputs that define how traditional artists handle a pen or brush. What’s remained elusive is the third one. The way a calligrapher twists a brush mid-stroke, or how a flat marker rotates to shift from wide edge to...

Somewhere in your home, there’s likely a camera that used to mean something. A Nikon FM2 inherited from a parent, a Canon AE-1 found at a flea market, a Pentax K1000 that still smells faintly of old leather. These bodies were built with a precision and intention that most modern cameras rarely replicate. The feel of...

Like Jaeger-LeCoultre doesn’t need an introduction, neither does the Australian design icon, Marc Newson. If you want to know what the two in collaboration can create, look no further than the Atmos Hybris Artistica Tellurium. Powered by the in-house caliber 590, it is one of the most enticing horological marvels I...

Nobody told MIT grad students to build a rolling sphere covered in twelve Labubu faces. They did it anyway, and now the rest of us have to sit with that. The project is called Labububot, and it comes from three graduate students at the MIT Media Lab: Miranda Li from the Personal Robots group, and Jake Read and Dimitar...

Google just announced Googlebook. Not to be confused with Google Books, which is a separate Google service (even though if you search for Googlebook in Google, it autocorrects you to Google Books instead). This might just be the most frustratingly flawed naming strategy Google’s ever employed, especially after the...