Bose shut down the SoundTouch cloud and bricked the preset buttons on speakers people paid up to $1,500 for. A ~$5 ESP32 stick speaks the dead protocol and brings them back.
Designer Koji Notomi went to a fish market, bought a herring, and dissected it by hand. The skeleton became the grille of a Yamaha amp, and the etymology of a pattern you have seen a thousand times suddenly snaps into focus.
Andrius Arutiunian's 'Obol' stages a futuristic afterlife in bitumen, silver coins, and synthetic choir, drawing on Greek funeral rites and underground rave aesthetics in equal measure. Five days left to catch the strangest argument for ritual technology in Tokyo this spring.
A wall-hung circuit board where every street is a copper trace and every glowing dot is a person you love. Jonathan turned his family's whereabouts into furniture.
Calm-tech rendered as a small unhurried toy instead of a wellness device. The pulse drives the wings, the wings teach you to slow the pulse, and the loop is the whole medicine.
Devon Turnbull's OJAS and Karimoku built a Sound House in Tokyo where speakers are machined from oak and listening rooms follow tea ceremony. When you can't tell where the room ends and the speaker begins.
Sweekar is a $100 AI companion with warmth simulation, breathing rhythms, and an unkillable mode at Level 51. But the original Tamagotchi worked because yours could die.
A mermaid-themed computer in a thrifted clamshell purse. 32 million TikTok views. The cyberdeck scene just discovered what happens when someone brings taste.
A custom PCB virtual pet that feeds on WiFi signals and deauths your network when it gets angry. Open-source firmware with feelings baked into the board.
For the Mapping Festival, ECAL filled a disused Geneva cistern with 360-degree immersive projections. The most interesting design school work is happening inside infrastructure nobody was supposed to see.
An ESP32 weather display with a face, a mood, and the ability to notice when you leave. Open-source, pocket-sized, and more emotionally honest than most consumer electronics.
No app. No dimmer. Pull a counterweight and the onyx glows. Kutarq Studio replaces electronic controls with sailboat hardware and the weight of your hand.