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  • iPhone X Leather Folio

    Crafted from specially tanned and finished French leather for a luxurious look and feel, the iPhone X Leather Folio fits snugly around your iPhone. Open it and your iPhone X wakes up. Close it and it goes to sleep. Inside… Read More ›

  • The new Apple stuff

    I shall ignore the fact that Apple Events was unavailable on my Apple TV at the start of the keynote and that AirPlay kept playing up when streaming from my iPad. These things happen I guess, but perhaps it is… Read More ›

  • iPhone number 10

    The iPhone has become an integral part of our lives, to the point that most of us do not even think about it as a special object anymore. We use it for everything from scouring the web to communicating with… Read More ›

  • The iPhone Was Inevitable

    The iPhone launched 10 years ago. The device—and its many, many descendants—is core to how we live. After only a decade, smartphones easily outnumber PCs, despite personal computing’s quarter-century head start. There are 2.5 billion Apple iOS and Android smartphones… Read More ›

  • The Hubless Foldable Sada Bike

    It is not only very clever, it actually looks quite good.

  • The Camera Caravan

    So then came the Caravan Camera. This was to work in the same way as the shed but would have a darkroom inside it as well so I could take it on the road. I bought an old caravan off… Read More ›

  • The Numworks Calculator

    Math isn’t boring. However, sometimes educational techniques don’t help making it interesting. Look at graphing calculators for example. They still embody an aesthetic from the 80s and 90s, and not in a good way. Looking more outdated than retro, these… Read More ›

  • How the airport came to embody our national psychosis

    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

    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

    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 ›