Human Mobile Devices, or HMD, is a Finnish white-label manufacturer that started producing Nokia's phones in 2016. This year they stepped out from the curtain to reveal their own line of smartphones, the HMD Pulse. Notably, this line of smartphones is designed to be repaired: "HMD calls it 'Gen 1 repairability', empowering owners to replace a damaged...

A fun fact often repeated about the Colosseum: Emperor Titus had it flooded for naval battle spectacles.Roughly 2,000 years later, Italian contracting company Myrtha Pools can duplicate the trick, anywhere in the world.The upcoming U.S. Olympic Swimming Team Trials in Indianapolis are projected to draw 30,000 fans. To accommodate them, Lucas Oil Stadium...

This is a bad time to be an automotive supplier. Following the pandemic, raw materials costs, labor costs and interest rates have risen. But most of the major automotive manufacturers refuse to absorb these costs and instead squeeze the suppliers. And "despite this, carmakers continue to record rising profits," writes Foley & Lardner, a law firm...

Industrial designer Dani Clode's field of specialty is prosthetics. She designed this Third Thumb, which anyone can strap on and learn to use in minutes: The design of it is quite clever, and more low-tech than you'd think. A small motor worn like a wristwatch drives the orange tendons that actuate the thumb: There are no electrodes or implants. Instead,...

Here's what we looked at this week: An architectural material called "Bamboo Charcoal Wood Metal Plate." Unfortunately there's no MSDS that might shed light on exactly what the heck is in it. RapidRoot is a clever system for concrete-free foundations. A vice-friendly design classic: Joe Colombo's Smoke Glasses. These "terra cotta baguettes,"...

To create their Owala FreeSip water bottle, which is currently selling like hotcakes, Trove Brands hired industrial design and engineering consultancy Whipsaw. As the firm writes: "Not only is this wildly popular bottle attractive and colorful but it features Trove Brand's patented FreeSip spout functionality, which allows one to drink water by swigging...