When Bose pulled the plug on SoundTouch, six preset buttons went dark across thousands of speakers. One maker's $5 ESP32 quietly impersonates the dead service, and the speaker is none the wiser.
Most e-readers chase more: color, touch, a storefront in your pocket. This one ships with the WiFi switched off and the full schematics promised to anyone who asks.
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.
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.
A mermaid-themed computer in a thrifted clamshell purse. 32 million TikTok views. The cyberdeck scene just discovered what happens when someone brings taste.
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.
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.
A wall of 1,000 touch-sensitive metal springs running Schrödinger's equation in real time. Robin Baumgarten made quantum physics feel like tall grass.