Janelle Zara
Lazy, coddled, narcissistic. Over-sensitive. Smartphone-obsessed. Popular media has relished brandin g millennials (the generation born roughly between the ’80s and the early aughts) in such broad and scathing terms, a practice easily rejected as clickbait — that is, unless you attended the Consumer Electronics Show last week. That’s where I watched a Whirlpool representative call her…
Is the optimal workplace open plan or cubicle? The jury’s still out. That’s why flexible workspaces that toe the line between the two are now a large part of the task furniture market. And if it turns out those aren’t what you’re looking for, a new, more sustainable range gives you the option of trial…
As a respite from all the in-your-face robotics and high-tech fanfare going on at the Consumer Elect ronics Show, Architizer found one moment of Zen playing around with the ambient lighting options of Philips Hue Tap. The puck-like remote control syncs to Philips’ smart, color-changing Hue lights via ZigBee, a lower-energy, appliance-specific alternative to wi-fi that…
Located in the resort town of Estes Park, Colorado, the Stanley Hotel’s claim to fame is that it ins pired Stephen King to write the “The Shining,” an icon of the horror story genre that is perhaps best known in Stanley Kubrick’s legendary 1980 film adaptation. To celebrate its current management’s 20th anniversary, the hotel has…
The ability to 3D-print objects in exceptionally strong materials like Kevlar, fiberglass, and for t he first time, carbon fiber, means one thing: “No more Yoda heads,” according to MarkForged creative director Jeff Klein. MarkForged (stylized as MARKFORG3D) is the Boston-area startup behind the Mark One, a 3D printer that launched in its current form in…
Beijing’s got its Big Shorts (CCTV Tower, OMA, 2012), London’s got its Gherkin (30 St Mary Axe, Norm an Foster, 2003), and al-Wakrah’s got various euphemisms for the female anatomy that just aren’t fit to put in writing (al-Wakrah Stadium, Zaha Hadid, 2018). San Francisco, how ’bout you? Last month may have been the best one…
In case you somehow failed to notice, your fridge’s crisper drawer is a stroke of genius, a compartm ent that provides the optimal humidity and temperature settings to keep your organic Tuscan kale stalks as crisp as can be while the milk and eggs chill out on their own on other shelves. But don’t your milk…
Samsung is on a mission towards a smarter home, as Architizer saw Monday during the brand’s Consumer Electronics Show presentation. These are the four top gadgets we’d like to live with. Super Surround Sound Samsung’s Audiolab has developed an “omnidirectional sound experience” for our modern multi-tasking world with the egg-shaped WAM7500 and WAM6500. “Unlike traditional…
Did Santa happen to overlook the Lego-shaped flash drive you had on your wishlist this year? Tell hi m he can make it up to you by swinging by a Danish post office and picking up the nation’s new Lego-themed postage stamps (which are the currency for mail, which is kind of like email, except printed…