Here’s what we looked at this week:
KAIST develops a low-cost way to detect hidden cameras using your smartphone.

Industrial designer Alberto Essesi’s pen for precision sketching.

The Celluveyor: A next-generation omnidirectional modular conveyor belt.
Early transforming furniture: Richard Neutra’s Camel Table.

What an anodized aluminum baseball cap holder says about our product landscape.

The UI of a stencil machine. Designed in the 1940s, but still effective.
Cory Johnson’s Infinite Pocket Jeans.

Cost-cutting disguised as minimalism: Volvo’s EX30 dashboard goes too far.

A minimalist low-cost Japanese sketchbook.

Motomorphosis: MSCHF’s radically modified Lexuses.

The Easy Roller: An alternative take on the pizza cutter.

An architectural-scale kintsugi project: Restoring a pre-Revolutionary-War house with glass rather than masonry.

Raak Design casts light on a medical tool.

Mafell’s beefy portable drilling station for timber framers eliminates the pain points of incumbent designs.

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