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  • How the airport came to embody our national psychosis

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    In 1962, New York’s Idlewild Airport inaugurated Eero Saarinen’s TWA Flight Center, a swooping concrete-and-glass icon of jet-age glamor. The building incarnated an idea of air travel’s allure that lingered like a contrail in the national imagination. In his 2015… Read More ›

  • Facer 4.0

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    There are currently around 30,000 watch faces in the growing Facer database. While smartwatches and the potential for designers to come up with creative watch faces is exciting, there will naturally be demand for the good design of familiar and… Read More ›

  • 100 Million G-Shocks

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    Over 2000 different models of the G-Shock have been produced since its introduction in 1983, and it’s still going strong, with one of the most recent being the hand-decorated MR-G Indigo Hammer Tone Kasumi-Tsuchime. The remarkably robust G-Shock is found… Read More ›

  • Not every Apple Watch owner is a triathlete

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    The Apple Watch is a capable fitness device which has been lauded by many for helping them move more and be more aware of they general activity levels. I felt this way for some time, but then decided that I… Read More ›

  • AirPods then and now

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    Then And then there was one reaction that shot to the top of Reddit Friday afternoon, which has a very familiar face to us here at CNET. An image from it, which we had to censor, is below, but click… Read More ›

  • Tornado Black

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    An operation would solve the issue, but Black said she cannot afford to pay for it. The money she earns from giving tennis lessons is not enough because she is also helping to support her mother and sister, Hurricane Tyra… Read More ›

  • Atomic City

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    Few Americans know their nation’s nuclear history. In 1946, after the bombing of Hiroshima showed that the atom could destroy a city, Congress created the Atomic Energy Commission to show it could also generate electricity. Reactors sprang from the sage… Read More ›

  • Why You Should Stop Saying Sorry

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    To assess the impact of apologies after social rejections, researchers approached thousands of people and asked them questions and had them participate in experiments. When asked to write “a good way of saying no,” 39 percent of participants included an… Read More ›

  • The Importance of the Photograph

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    My father passed away a month ago, and his birthday was on August 31st. I’m letting that sink in. Death is never easy and for those that have lost a parent, it has a certain significance. The person who has… Read More ›

  • ALTERRA CHRONOGRAPH

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    Nice to see a new watch with a completely different look. Not too over the top, but with just enough style to make it stand out.