Solid ash wood, a three-tone sunburst, and a driver tuned for strings Everyone has seen a sunburst finish. Starting with 1950s Fender Stratocasters, carried by Hendrix, Clapton, Page — that gradient from bright center to dark edge is the most enduring finish in guitar history. Audio-Technica put it on aContinue Reading
The headphone that started a revolution comes back in leather and metal Sony launched the MDR-1000X and rewrote the rules of the headphone market. That combination of noise cancellation quality and wireless audio at that price point hadn’t existed before. Every generation since has debuted at the top of everyContinue Reading
A $39,900 argument that watchmaking should never take itself too seriously H. Moser & Cie is the Swiss watchmaker most likely to make you laugh. The Swiss Alp trolled the Apple Watch. The Swiss Mad put the movement in an Emmental cheese case. This is a company that takes theContinue Reading
A 1936 Bauhaus lamp and a 1970s turntable found their color Copenhagen, June 10, 2026. At the Fritz Hansen Sound Club installation during 3 Days of Design, two objects sat in the same room. One was a lamp. One was a turntable. They shared exactly one thing. A color. TheContinue Reading
Mac and iPad prices up by as much as 25%. iPhone untouched. For now. On June 25, 2026, Apple’s online store went dark for a few minutes. When it came back, the price tags had changed. For the first time in the company’s history, Apple passed memory and storage costContinue Reading
The OG Green is back. This time, you can see straight through it. November 15, 2001. Microsoft entered the console market for the first time. A heavy black box. A green X. A challenge thrown at a market PlayStation owned. That challenge has run for 25 years. June 7, 2026.Continue Reading
The Copenhagen brand that changed the rules, and what Spring 2026 brings In 2003, Rolf and Mette Hay opened a small store on Pilestræde in Copenhagen with a simple conviction: good design doesn’t have to be expensive. At the time, Scandinavian design was largely the territory of luxury brands andContinue Reading