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Any of us who are getting nostalgic for the seeming simplicity and optimism of the early 90s, which seems to be a sizable share of us these days, have another bit of good news. Oakley has taken it upon themselves to release an updated version of their 1992 Sub Zero…
Matchboxes are convenient, but they don’t really add anything to your room. They’re chucked in a drawer or a cabinet until they’re needed for the ten seconds it takes to light something, then they’re chucked right back in. The Match Striker from Craighill aims to add a little display value.…
Tom Sachs is doubling down on his earlier NFT project, Rocket Factory, with the release of the Rocket Factory Fanny Pack. You might ask what a fanny pack has to do with NFTs, which is a great question that mixes 90s fashion and 2020s tech trends. The answer is that…
IKEA is one of those companies that it’s impossible to imagine the world without. We can easily picture Frederick Douglass scribbling away at a Lommarp, Emerson reclining at Walden Pond in a Hamnön, and the warrior queen Boudica sticking a few Roman heads on top of a few Tågarp. But…
After the thrill of reaching outer space wears off, being an astronaut seems pretty boring. Not a lot of privacy. The food doesn’t look that great (except, of course, for Astronaut Ice Cream they sell at the Smithsonian). And I doubt they have HBO. So, when designer Hussain Almossawi imagined…
Like Dutch Old Masters, so specific is the Dyson aesthetic, one can easily spot originals versus reductive imitators. Here, we have an original. The Lightcycle Desk Task Light is a no-frills desk lamp that has all of the futuristic appeal of Dyson’s beloved vacuums, fans, and airport hand dryers. Using…
The time of the audiophile is nigh! With the renaissance of podcasts and supplemented with apps like Shazam and Spotify, music is more prevalent now than ever. Get in on the game with the TX-6 (no, it’s not to be confused with my AP Calculus calculator, the beloved TI-89 of…
Even if you haven’t seen The Shining, you’ve seen this ax. It’s the one Jack Nicholson puts through the bathroom door when he’s terrorizing Shelley Duvall and just before he delivers his thoroughly terrifying greeting. The ax is housed in its own shadow box, accompanied by a few stills from…
At first, we thought this saw blade was like that section of Route 66 that plays “America the Beautiful” as you drive on it, where it would play The Weeknd’s new single “Out of Time” as you pulled it through 2x4s or something. Then we saw that the blade is…
Maybe it’s the vestiges of DARE-influenced prejudice in us, but we weren’t expecting there to be actual reliable sources on the history of 420. We assumed we’d be gathering speculative testimonials from weird-colored HTML websites written in the mid to late 90s. Or standard “haha 420 blaze it” internet speak.…
The increasingly legal status of marijuana coupled with decades of abstinence-only education and fear-mongering means there are a lot of people out there who want to try cannabis for the first time but don’t know the basics. In the same way that we like to gently guide our readers through…
The subreddit r/place got a relaunch a few weeks ago, which you already know if you regularly check Reddit. For those out of the loop, r/place is a digital communal mural where users can add to the project one pixel at a time. And while you might assume the result…
Lazzarini Design Studio specializes in the kind of conceptual design that always reminds us the world we live in often looks exceptionally boring. Take beachside vacation resorts, for example. They’re usually antiseptically luxurious and set on sandy beaches or cliffsides and have some vaguely modern design style. The Pearlsuites throw…
If the history of aviator sunglasses sounds familiar, you’d be right. They came up when we were talking about menswear pulled straight out of the military. We were also thinking it was about time we went into deeper detail here, so let’s rehash a bit of what we’ve already written,…
Mogabi did a hell of a lot more with their travel guitar than just making a more portable electric instrument. They basically made a portable recording studio and stuck it inside a foldable guitar. To use it, take it out of the case, unfold the audio box from the neck,…
