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Patch Cables and Paper Lanterns: Tokyo's New Synthesizer Makers
In the backstreets of Kuramae and Shimokitazawa, a generation of young engineers is hand-building an…
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A Grammar of Glass: The Designer Who Wants Screens to Disappear
Milan interaction designer Ilse Marchetti has spent a decade trying to make our devices less visible…
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The Founders Who Turned Down a Billion Dollars
When a Californian giant offered to buy their small Lisbon software company, Beatriz Lemos and Tomas…
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Review: The Serac Vesper Makes the Case for a Beautiful Phone
A small Swiss-Finnish maker has built a smartphone that prizes materials, restraint and longevity ov…
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Inside the Mountain That Remembers Everything
Beneath the Jura, a small company is etching the world's most precious data into glass and…
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How to Own Your Digital Life: A Collector's Guide to Keeping What Matters
Streaming libraries shrink, cloud accounts get locked and photographs vanish with old phon…
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The Cellar That Thinks: Inside a Milan Restaurant's Sensor-Laden Wine Vault
Beneath a celebrated Milan osteria, twelve thousand bottles rest under the watch of humidi…
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Letters from the Edge of the Signal
A month in a wooden house in Finnish Karelia, connected to the world only by a satellite d…
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Click, Clack, Collect: The Keyboard Obsessives of Seoul
In a basement workshop in Seoul's Euljiro district, a community of builders spends small f…
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Unlisted: Why Privacy Has Become the Ultimate Luxury
Once, wealth announced itself. Now the most coveted thing money can buy may be the ability…
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The Choreographer Who Paints the Night With Drones
A former butoh dancer, Rei Kanazawa now directs hundreds of drones at a time above Tokyo B…
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In Praise of the Slow Website
A handful of independent designers are building websites that load instantly, weigh almost…