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A bedside lamp ought to survive a burned-out bulb, especially when its shape is the reason you bought it. I’d hate to retire a little flying saucer over a lighting component. That’s the practical appeal of WOLOLOW Night Lamp Ver 2.0: beneath its Space Age exterior sits a replaceable LED bulb. The object gets to keep its personality when the light source needs changing, a sensible priority for something designed to be displayed. Designed by Arthur Koshatahyan and Kostya Trunov, the lamp is curren

Working with an AI coding assistant can mean repeating the same handful of commands while your fingers hunt across a keyboard full of other possibilities. Keychron’s F4 HE 8K Vibe Coding Keypad gives those repeated decisions their own little patch of desk. Four programmable keys put prompting, dictation, approval, and rejection within reach, without asking you to replace the keyboard you already use. The square body measures just 1.77 inches on each side, although its tall keycaps bring th

A bedroom door can matter more than another clever storage compartment. So can a dining table that stays put, a bathroom you don’t have to share, or a living room with a view beyond the opposite wall. For November, we’ve selected five compact homes that give these everyday details serious attention. Their plans make downsizing easier to picture without treating the simple act of going to bed as a climbing exercise. This selection spans trailer homes, park models, and larger modular dwellings, in

Wireless earbuds can make a short gaming break depend on whether you remembered to charge their case the night before. Razer’s Hammerhead V3 Chroma takes that worry off the list with a cable that carries audio and power through USB-C. There’s no headphone jack involved in this return to wired listening, and the angled plug has been shaped around the hands holding your phone. The connector has a 90-degree bend, letting the cable run alongside a compatible device rather than sticking s

Choosing an album should be the enjoyable part of playing a record. Hovering a delicate needle over its edge can feel like an unnecessary little test, especially if you want music rather than a new equipment hobby. Waiting for Ideas addresses that friction with the PP-2, an aluminum turntable that takes tonearm adjustment out of the listener’s hands. Place the record upside down, press Play, and playback happens underneath. The Paris studio, founded by Jean-Baptiste Anotin, explored this approac

Answering a call shouldn’t mean putting down your shopping bags just to find a tiny control beside your ear. Motorola’s newly announced Moto Buds Ultra 27 offer another option: nod to accept, shake your head to decline. Small wing-shaped supports aim to keep the earbuds in place, pairing their familiar stemmed shape with controls that don’t always need a finger to operate. The little fins curve above the rounded earpieces instead of looping around the outside of your ears. Shor

Small craft projects have a funny way of spreading across a table. Pieces of cardboard become a miniature building, and suddenly the knife, spare blades, and cutting mat all need their space. HOZO’s Hobby Knife design brings those essentials together, putting together a press-to-release mechanism for changing blades with a carrying case that unfolds into a cutting station. It’s a welcome design for tables with other jobs. The case earns its place on the table even before cutting begins. Its slid

I’ll admit it, I have never once looked at a supermarket tomato and wondered where it grew up. Filandón, a restaurant tucked into the woods of El Pardo on the edge of Madrid, wants to fix that habit with architecture. At its entrance sits a glass greenhouse used as a farm shop, selling the vegetables the kitchen cooks with. Every crate of potatoes and string of dried chilies comes from the restaurant’s own farm. You can eat the menu, then buy the menu, which is honestly a great busin

A tuning dial asks very little of you: turn it, find a station, leave it alone. That sounds like a small luxury when playing music can mean picking up the same phone that holds your messages and work email. RetroWave’s radio listening offers an appealing way out of that overlap. That separation, rather than nostalgia alone, is what interests me. Available for $89, the RetroWave 7-in-1 Radio pairs AM/FM/shortwave reception with Bluetooth and local file playback. The pitch is particularly appealin

Back in 1967, Carroll Shelby took a perfectly good Mustang and bolted on a fiberglass nose, hood, and ducktail, because apparently steel was slowing him down. Almost sixty years later, Classic Recreations has finished that thought by building a 1967 Shelby GT500 with a body made entirely from carbon fiber. Every exterior panel is woven, cured, and left exposed, so you can stare at the weave like it’s a lava lamp. The reveal car also packs a supercharged Coyote V8 making 1,000 horsepower, n

A swimming pool occupies an unlikely valley on Copenhagen’s waterfront: the space between five brick towers. This is the defining move at KAI, the Water Culture House designed by Kengo Kuma & Associates on Papirøen, or Paper Island. Scheduled to open on December 5, 2026, the 5,800-square-meter public facility brings together ten pools, wellness spaces, and cultural activities. The building occupies the island’s northwestern corner, near Copenhagen’s Opera House and Opera Park. Rather than pr

Louis Vuitton is taking minimalism to the next level in watchmaking with the Tambour Convergence Mirror Steel, which at first glance looks more like a polished caseback than a watch face. That is not the case, though, literally. What you see is the dial of the latest Tambour Convergence from the French fashion house. If the Tambour Horizon Light Up was flamboyant, this one is its exact opposite, with a restrained character that puts the material and finishing in the spotlight. First introduced i

In 1987, Fisher-Price tried to turn every kid into a junior Spielberg with the PXL-2000, a $179 toy camcorder that recorded grainy black-and-white video onto regular audio cassettes. It flopped as a toy, then became a cult favorite among art-school filmmakers, which is the most ’80s plot twist imaginable. Nearly four decades later, Camp Snap is taking its own swing at the kids’ camcorder with the CS-8 Mini. It’s a $149.99 screen-free video camera for ages 6 and up, styled after

Wandering hours watches have a bit of a wealth gap. On one end, you’ve got Audemars Piguet’s Starwheel and pretty much everything Urwerk makes, priced like a down payment on a house. On the other sit playful budget takes that let you test-drive the idea. The DWISS S1 lands between them, a Swiss Made automatic at $2,730 that won a 2026 European Product Design Award. It comes from Rafael Simoes Miranda, who has spent 15 years building DWISS around one stubborn idea: there’s alway

PROS: Distinctive, eye-catching visible liquid cooling design Excellent cooling system for sustained peak performance Large 8,400mAh battery with 80W wired and wireless fast charging Gorgeous gaming-worthy 185Hz display CONS: No Telephoto Camera or Macro Mode Only 2 generations of Android updates Turbo Fan area is only IPX8 rated A lot more expensive than previous gen RATINGS: AESTHETICSERGONOMICSPERFORMANCESUSTAINABILITY / REPAIRABILITYVALUE FOR MONE

Rooftop tents are designed as an alternative to a complete RV setup. The idea is interesting and convenient when you just need space to sleep and rest. Or, at most, as a hiding site when the weather is rough. You can have the RTT installed all day, but it cannot provide you with the comfort of an RV. The creators in Sweden believe otherwise. No wonder businesses like Thule and now Domestic are working on making RTTs for campers to spend daytime hours inside. Building on the idea of Thule’s Wides

The Wildflower makes room for something tiny homes can easily squeeze out: a proper front porch. Built by South Carolina’s Sweet-Haus Tiny Cabin Company, this 400-square-foot park model pairs one bedroom and one bathroom with a covered outdoor sitting area. It’s an available model, starting at $115,000, with a layout that keeps daily life on one level. That porch spans the cabin’s width, sitting beneath the same gabled roof as the enclosed rooms. In the builder’s photographs, timber-toned posts

Camping stoves can be awkward things to pack, especially when the burner and pot supports insist on keeping their cooking shape inside your bag. Easy Cooking approaches that problem with a folding stove concept that tucks its parts into an elongated, rounded case. Developed in 2023, it proposes a smaller package for the trip without making you assemble a kitchen from loose pieces. The closed body has a sandy beige finish, interrupted by black details and a short fabric loop at one end. Concentri

Razer has teamed up with Neon Genesis Evangelion to introduce a new collection of gaming peripherals inspired by EVA-01, the iconic purple-and-green Evangelion unit piloted by Shinji Ikari. The Razer EVANGELION (EVA-01) Collection brings the anime’s distinctive visual identity to five pieces of gaming hardware and furniture, letting fans create a coordinated desktop setup. Following the earlier EVA-02 collaboration, the new collection focuses on EVA-01’s recognizable purple armor, ne

A phone mounted between the handlebars is a practical place for a map, right up until you need to read it. The route is down there; the intersection is up ahead. That split in attention is the problem Aegis Rider’s Vision helmet is designed to address, moving speed and navigation information into the rider’s forward view. It’s a sensible problem to tackle. The Swiss company says consumer units began shipping in supported markets in 2026, so this has moved beyond the concept stage. Its central id