Notion's office leaves its patches visible
At Notion's headquarters, IA does not disguise the mismatch between a 1907 building and a new office plan. The visible patch becomes a design method.
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Phillips Print tested its identity by printing it before it was finished
Laura Clink did not hand Phillips Print one locked logo. The printer was already testing flyers, stickers, merch and vinyl during development before receiving nine interchangeable marks.
A titanium-lattice tibia, filled with real bone
Madrid's Gregorio Marañón hospital printed a tibia prosthesis whose structure imitates bone mechanics. A year on, the patient walks. The deeper story: a public hospital turned certified device manufacturer.
She draws buildings with a sewing machine, sometimes with no pencil at all
Ali Hill stitches architectural renderings on a sewing machine, feed dogs down, sometimes with no underdrawing at all. The process turns precision into a hand skill and mistakes into a permanent part of the work.
This 'tool-free' rail process ends with milling. The mold is what disappears
3D-FiberTrain does not replace every tool with a printer. It removes dedicated molds, then combines extrusion, continuous-fibre reinforcement and milling for large rail parts.
The Fairphone opens with a T5 Torx. In the US, Verizon stays closed
The Gen. 6+ is repairable module by module, but its US launch exposes another kind of closure: a phone can welcome your screwdriver and still be refused by a network.
A 2004 iBook G4 Finally Talks To Your Modern NAS
AquaLink connects a Tiger-era iBook G4 to a modern SMB3 NAS through libsmb2 and a tiny local WebDAV server. What matters is the method: wiring an abandoned machine back in, kernel untouched.
Emerson spent $8.2 billion on an argument. The argument holds.
An Emerson-sponsored essay about the "new era of test" survives fact-checking surprisingly well. Verification really has become engineering's bottleneck, just not for the reasons its Test & Measurement segment sells.
3,000 yen and a hammer: the workshop that keeps a dead railway alive
In Kamioka, Japan, a mining line closed in 2006 carries riders again on electric-assist rail bikes — and the track itself is maintained by paying visitors, one sleeper at a time.
The world's press saw decline. The town was still making things.
While the world's TV crews covered the by-election, a car park was turning back into a market ground seven centuries old, with a StudioDBD identity designed never to be finished.