Your earbud can read your body temperature, heart rate variability, and sleep quality. No, I’m not joking, there are TWS earbuds on the market that can gather medical-grade data aside from playing music or your favorite podcast. Now, Apple wants to put a camera on them too. The AirPods Pro 3 already ships with a...
This Sculptural Lamp Treats Light as Secondary and its Decorative Shell as Primary
Floor lamps typically exist in your peripheral vision. They illuminate a corner, frame a reading chair, or cast ambient light from behind the couch, and beyond choosing between brass or matte black, their design language is predictable. You get a pole, a shade, maybe a tripod base if the designer is feeling...
This Charred Timber Cabin on the Sázava River Was Built From the Ruins of the One It Replaced
Most architects would have cleared the site and started fresh. Mimosa Architekti did the opposite. Perched on the banks of the Sázava River in Prosečnice, Czech Republic, Between the Rock and the River is a retreat born from ruin, designed to make peace with its past. The story begins with a fire. The original cabin...
This Moscow Forest Garage Is Really a Sculpture Gallery for Cars
Not every garage is built to store cars — some are built to celebrate them. For them, Russian architecture studio ATRIUM has completed the ‘Garage for Car Collection’— a 200 square meter structure tucked into a wooded private estate on the outskirts of Moscow that treats its automobiles less like machines and...
6th-Gen iPod Nano powers triple-display workstation, and it actually works
Move away from the largest computer case mod for a moment and give the 6th-generation iPod Nano a moment of fame again. Before you start thinking what that even means, check out the video above, where a creator from the YouTube channel Will It Work has given the tiny MP3 player a new lease of life with a...
Satechi Just Fixed the Speed Drop Problem With an 80Gbps Drive Case
External SSD enclosures have always had a frustrating contradiction at their core. The good ones are fast, but fast enough for long enough is a different story. Sustained transfers, especially when you’re moving large video projects or running a drive-intensive backup, will push most passive enclosures into thermal...
This Lamp Finally Belongs on a Bookshelf Because It Looks Like a Book
Reading lamps have always had a tension with the spaces they occupy. The ones bright enough to actually read by tend to be too harsh for any other use, while the softer ones look nicer but force you to squint by page two. Neither type fits particularly well on a bookshelf, which is where most people want light when...
This Rotating Solar House Grows Fish and Plants Entirely on Its Own
Aquaponic gardening has been getting a lot of attention as a more sustainable way to grow food, especially in urban settings where arable land isn’t exactly plentiful. The concept pairs fish and plants in a closed-loop system where each supports the other, cutting out synthetic fertilizers and reducing water waste....
5 Best Products For A Minimalist Coffee Table That Does More By Doing Less
The coffee table is the hardest surface in the living room to get right. Put too much on it, and it looks like a staging mistake. Put too little and the room reads unfinished. The minimalist approach settles this by demanding each object justify its place twice — once as something useful, once as something worth...
NjommNjomm Is Exactly What It Sounds Like (It Eats Books)
Say the name out loud. NjommNjomm. Go ahead. It sounds exactly like what you think it sounds like. Nom nom. Like something chewing. Like something very happily eating. And once you see what this coffee table concept actually does, you’ll understand that the name is entirely intentional and absolutely...