Tech
For ideas that inspire and technology that lasts, we find the things that combine beauty and style to make the most of your digital life
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Braun and Virgil Abloh join forces on a new alarm clock design
Drawing on Virgil Abloh's ‘taking the familiar and making it new’ design motto, the new collaboration between Braun and Off-White features the iconic BC02 alarm clock in new bold shades
By Rosa Bertoli • Last updated
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Big draw: a new British brand is hoping smarter vaping will stub out smoking for good
By Alex Moshakis • Last updated
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Jony Ive on Apple’s new HQ and the disappearing iPhone
By Jonathan Bell • Last updated
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Google's life-enhancing gadget suite brings a new edge to your world
By Elly Parsons • Last updated
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Wallpaper* wants… high-tech innovation from low-key brands
Six new tech devices offer up fresh twists on consuming and creating, proving that big ideas don’t always come from obvious sources
By Jonathan Bell • Last updated
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Wallpaper* Smart Space Awards 2022 winners: best design and tech for the home
Here are the winners of the Wallpaper* Smart Space Awards 2022 – discover what’s new and next in the world of domestic design and technology
By Jonathan Bell • Last updated
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Wallpaper* wants… perfect sound forever from nine new audio innovations
Our regular round-up of all that’s new and notable in the world of high-fidelity audio, from sound bars and speakers, to standalone units and components in the endlessly evolving world of digital sound
By Jonathan Bell • Last updated
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New beauty brand challenges our perceptions of reality
The Unseen, an innovative material science company, is launching its beauty brand with an eyeshadow that looks different in physical and digital realities
By Mary Cleary • Last updated
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The high energy highlights from Nike’s 2020 Future Forum
Nike has revealed its latest performance innovations for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics as well as highlighting the products that will take centre stage this summer
By Pei-Ru Keh • Last updated
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Enter the Wallpaper* + Samsung Bespoke Design Challenge
By Simon Mills • Last updated
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Yves Béhar-designed underwater research station is inspired by 1960s design
Yves Béhar and his firm Fuseproject have collaborated with ocean conservationist Fabien Cousteau to design an underwater scientific research habitat of the future
By Jonathan Bell • Last updated
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Fendi's golden gadgets are glamorous stocking fillers
The Roman house has teamed up with London accessories label Chaos on a range of tech jewellery accessories, including Air Pod holders and iPhone cases
By Laura Hawkins • Last updated
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Hear out: the brands giving a haute spin to sound accessories
Boucheron, Vibe Harsløf, FandD and Planet Beyond are bringing fine jewellery finesse to hearing devices and headphones
By Laura Hawkins • Last updated
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Sound stuff: Apple’s HomePod is a late pretender to the smart-speaker crown
By Nick Compton • Last updated
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Sucker punch: Roborock’s robovacs are a wonder of hyper-proficient cleaning autonomy
By Simon Mills • Last updated
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New Analogue Duo console reclaims the delights of retro gaming
The Duo is a modern re-interpretation of the PC Engine by NEC; a cult gaming console that found success in late 1980s Japan
By Jonathan Bell • Last updated
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Nike GO FlyEase breaks free from convention
We go toe-to-toe with Nike's Kathy Gomez in an interview that discusses the new GO FlyEase technology
By Jonathan Bell • Last updated
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Yves Béhar and Dr Harvey Karp are rocking World Sleep Day
Created by paediatrician Dr Harvey Karp, and given a pared-back design by Yves Béhar, Snoo is a baby sleep solution we can all rest easy with
By Tilly Macalister-Smith • Last updated
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Wood look tech-toys for analogue-inspired interiors
We still crave a bit of warmth to go with our technology. However sleek things get and the more wireless and wondrous they become, the desire for a tactile surface or visual softness never goes away. Many wireless speakers have latched onto fabric covers as a way of blending into the domestic realm, but for our money there’s only one material that can give technology an analogue sheen in this digital age, and that’s wood.
By Jonathan Bell • Last updated
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Bang & Olufsen team up with Benjamin Hubert to balance sonic design
Bang & Olufsen continue to change the way we experience music by collaborating with designer Benjamin Hubert for the ‘Beosound Balance’
By Jonathan Bell • Last updated
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Technically speaking: how designers are putting the home back into home tech
Our monthly dissection of the best design-minded technology happenings the world over
By Elly Parsons • Last updated
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Technically speaking: new ‘flexi-tech’ for smart homes missing an off-button
Our monthly dissection of technology happenings the world over
By Elly Parsons • Last updated
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High-tech running brand On touches the clouds with Engadin valley retreat
The fast-growing sports company invites guests to enjoy a slower pace in walkers’ wonderland Engadin valley, to celebate the launch of its Cloudrock Waterproof boots
By Nick Compton • Last updated
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Four innovative design responses to the climate emergency
Design Emergency began as an Instagram Live series during the Covid-19 pandemic and is now becoming a wake-up call to the world, and compelling evidence of the power of design to effect radical and far-reaching change. Co-founders Paola Antonelli and Alice Rawsthorn took over the October 2020 issue of Wallpaper* –
By Jonathan Bell • Last updated
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How can technology be explained through poetry and play?
Italian designer Matteo Loglio toys with the future of products, interactions and tools
By Rosa Bertoli • Last updated
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Tool of the trade: Mario Botta creates a limited edition Fixpencil for Caran d’Ache
By Elly Parsons • Last updated
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Master & Dynamic and Away’s travel collection has us missing flights
Audio specialist Master & Dynamic and luggage brand Away offer up a capsule collection, from headphones to a daypack, with proceeds benefiting the music community impacted by the pandemic
By Jonathan Bell • Last updated