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A new receiver converts 38.49% of green laser light into electricity. That is a strong result, but its denominator begins after several losses a complete system still has to absorb.
Syitren's RM1 puts its disc and mechanism on display. But this CD player is still a campaign: seeing the mechanism is not the same as owning the object.
Mattia Balsamini photographs robots without adding a ready-made storyline. By keeping the bodies, places and people around them, he replaces sci-fi spectacle with an image of work.
In Lausanne, a seat folds under a small roof as soon as you stand up. The passive mechanism protects the wood, trading rain and dirt for springs, a hinge and one extra action from the user.
ANURA organises its body around the distance between two handle holes. The grid makes disassembly legible, but it does not yet solve parts, diagnostics or mechanics.
Andstudio is offering wineries an unusual exchange: no agency fee, but a week on site before four to six months of branding work. The real experiment is replacing the initial brief with fieldwork.
Felice Varini's perfect circle is not painted on one wall but distributed across a room. A projector turns a chosen viewpoint into a construction plan.
By repeating almost the same framing across hundreds of facades, François Prost turns Japanese love hotels into a comparable visual system rather than a collection of curiosities.
Are we cooked?! asks 30 designers whether AI is ending their profession. The yes-or-no verdict is almost useless; their metaphors, contradictions and definitions of value make a far better map of design in 2026.
Desktop 4- and 5-axis machines are arriving below $10,000. Generating the toolpaths that make them genuinely useful is a very different problem.