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  • Sweden Rebuilds an Entire Hotel From Ice Every Winter

    ICEHOTEL has been turning snow and ice into rooms, sculpture and architecture since 1989. Each winter brings new artist-designed spaces, giving one concept an endless supply of extraordinary interiors and ephemeral design. — via icehotel.com

  • You Can Sleep in a Glass Capsule Hanging From a Peruvian Cliff

    Skylodge suspends transparent sleeping capsules high above Peru's Sacred Valley, turning the journey to bed into part of the adventure. The exterior cliff shots, interior views and valley scale make this a natural gallery post. — via naturavive.com

  • This Full-Size Kayak Folds Down Into a Box

    Oru Kayak uses an origami-inspired folding shell to turn a rigid-looking boat into something that can be carried and stored far more easily than a conventional kayak. The transformation itself is the perfect visual story. — via orukayak.com

  • Hasselblad Put 100 Megapixels Into a Camera That Still Looks Beautifully Simple

    The X2D 100C brings a 100-megapixel medium-format sensor, internal storage and stabilisation into an unusually clean camera body. It is serious professional hardware presented with the restraint of a design object. — via hasselblad.com

  • This Farm Machine Uses Lasers to Kill Weeds at Industrial Scale

    Carbon Robotics' LaserWeeder combines computer vision with a bank of high-powered lasers to identify and eliminate weeds as it moves through crops. It looks like science fiction, but the job it performs is extremely practical. — via carbonrobotics.com

  • Leica Made a Digital Camera With No Rear Screen

    The M11-D removes the usual rear display from a modern digital rangefinder, forcing the experience back toward shooting rather than reviewing. It is a deliberately restrained piece of technology in a category usually competing on screens and menus. — via leica-camera.com

  • A Humanoid Robot Is Starting to Look Like a Real Consumer Product

    Unitree's G1 packages humanoid movement into a comparatively compact machine with articulated limbs and a deliberately productised appearance. The videos and posed product imagery make the leap from laboratory prototype to object feel tangible. — via unitree.com

  • Teenage Engineering Turned a Music Workstation Into an Object You Want to Pick Up

    OP–XY packs sequencing, synthesis and performance tools into Teenage Engineering's characteristically compact industrial design. Even people who never make electronic music can understand why the hardware itself is so appealing. — via teenage.engineering

  • This Handheld Plays Original Game Boy Cartridges on a Modern Display

    Analogue Pocket rebuilds the classic cartridge-handheld idea around modern hardware and an exceptionally sharp display, while keeping physical game cartridges at the centre of the experience. It is nostalgia treated like premium industrial design. — via analogue.co

  • This Cat Flap Knows Which Pet Is at the Door

    SureFlap's connected pet door reads a compatible microchip so access can be controlled for individual animals, while the app can report comings and goings. It turns one of the simplest household openings into a surprisingly smart system. — via surepetcare.com