Audi’s new espresso machine brings TT-inspired design to your morning coffee routine

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It’s not always that you find Audi associated with coffee, but when you do, you can’t miss it. Italian handcrafted espresso machine maker, Rocket Espresso, has entered into a partnership with automaker Audi to make discerning home baristas give their prized possession one hard look; does it still deserve the place it occupies?

Introduced as a new expression to the usual stainless steel coffee machines, the Rocket x Audi is focused on “design, proportion, and detail.” Handmade by Rocket and designed in Milan with the Audi Design Team and Valerio Cometti + V12Design, the espresso machine speaks of each involved brand’s distinctive and defining design language.

Designer: Rocket x Audi

The coffee machine is inspired by the clear surface, minimal lines, and the distinctive silhouette of the Audi TT. While the design is auto-influenced, the basic idea of the coffee machine is pretty native to the Rocket’s portfolio. To that end, it is based on the Rocket Bicocca model, but the resulting partnership variant is a distinctive interpretation of the espresso machine.

The dual-burner coffee machine is defined by its highly detailed and clear design language, which is meant to pair impressively with the specially developed Spluga grinder. The attention to detail is reflected in the machine’s sculpted curves. The matt aluminum body is built in contrast with deep black surfaces and base ascents that create a restrained but very precise visual language, which Audi is known for.

The feet in the base make the solid aluminum machine appear to visually float in the air. It comprises dual stainless steel boilers, and features a rotary pump. The biggest highlight, alongside the Audi limelight, is the integrated 3.5-inch touchscreen control panel of the machine. The dual burner is dedicated to brewing espresso at a precise temperature together, or can function at different temperatures when you need more power to steam milk.

The brewing unit of the Rocket x Audi espresso machines has a geometrically fashioned body, which seamlessly integrates into the housing to appear as one uniform element. The controls, including the rotary controls and the handle, highlight the unit with their glossy black accents. The built-in 3.5-inch touchscreen display in the upper area of the brewing unit gives the machine an intuitive way to work with its 0.5L coffee boiler capacity or the 1.5L capacity of the steam boiler.

The water tank of the coffee machine has a 1.8L capacity. The machine itself measures 409 x 465 x 400 mm and weighs 35kg. There is no word on the price or details about when the Rocket x Audi coffee machine will hit the market. But the kind of work that has gone into the detailing of this machine definitely makes it a high-ticket appliance worth every auto enthusiast.

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A Teen Bedroom Has 4 Jobs, the Hasuit Corner Bed Handles All of Them

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A teenager’s bedroom has to do the work of four rooms at once: a place to sleep, a place to study, a place to charge every device they own, and a place to stash the clutter that inevitably piles up. The Hasuit Twin Corner Bed with Desk and Storage Bookcase tackles that problem by refusing to separate any of it, folding a bed frame, a desk, a bookcase headboard, and a charging station into one L-shaped footprint that claims a corner instead of a wall.

That corner-hugging shape is the real trick here. Rather than lining a bed and a desk up against separate walls and losing floor space to the gap between them, the frame wraps around the room’s dead corner, turning an awkward, often-wasted angle into the single most productive spot in the bedroom. At 97.1 inches long and 47.5 inches wide, it claims real estate efficiently rather than sprawling across it.

Designer: Hasuit

The desk sits at the foot of the bed rather than off to the side, wide enough for all your study needs: homework on one half, a laptop on the other. Three desk-side organizer pockets keep pens, cables, and notebooks within arm’s reach without cluttering the actual work surface, while a top storage shelf and matching headboard shelf give a spot for whatever needs to sit somewhere other than the floor.

Behind the headboard, six built-in bookshelves replace what would otherwise be a separate bookcase bought and assembled on its own. Add two under-bed drawers and two movable fabric storage bins, and the frame ends up handling the job of a dresser as much as a bed, all without eating into the room’s remaining walkable space.

A built-in charging station puts two AC outlets and two USB ports directly onto the bed frame itself, closing the gap between where a teenager sleeps and where their devices actually charge overnight. No more dragging an extension cord across the floor or reaching over the side of the mattress to find an outlet in the dark.

RGB lighting rounds out the package, offering more than 60,000 color options controllable through either a physical button or a companion app, with dedicated music, microphone, and timer modes layered in. It’s the kind of feature that reads as a gimmick until you remember how much a bedroom’s mood depends on lighting, especially for someone who treats their room as a study space, a hangout spot, and a bedroom all at once.

Engineered wood panels and metal slats hold the whole structure together, rated to support up to 600 pounds without a box spring required underneath. That combination of steel-reinforced practicality and genuinely useful built-in features is what separates this from a bed frame with accessories bolted on as an afterthought.

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DYSH Cooks Dinner, Serves It, and Leaves Just One Thing in the Sink

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Cooking a single meal usually means dirtying a pot, a plate, and whatever serving dish stands between them, three separate objects doing what feels like one continuous job. DYSH collapses that chain into a single system, where the same vessel that cooks your food becomes the plate you eat from and the bowl you serve it in. It’s a multi-cooker built less around heating elements and more around eliminating the handoffs between cooking, eating, and cleaning.

The core vessel does the heavy lifting here, functioning as a pot, a frying pan, and a serving bowl depending on what a given recipe calls for. Rather than reaching for a different pan every time a dish changes character, from simmering a sauce to searing something quickly, the same piece of cookware adapts, cutting down on the pile of mismatched pots that usually accumulate across a single cooking session.

Designers: Chaeyeon Yoo, Doyoon Kim, Eui Hwan Kwon, Gun Park, Yangwoo Choi

The lid takes on double duty of its own, flipping from a cover that traps heat and moisture into an actual plate once the cooking is done. That single swap removes an entire category of dishwashing from the equation, since a meal cooked and served straight out of DYSH never touches a separate plate in the first place. It’s a small mechanical shift with an outsized effect on how much ends up in the sink afterward.

A two-way handle ties the physical and functional sides of the system together. It offers the grip stability you’d expect from cookware, letting you lift, tilt, or steady the vessel during actual cooking, while also serving as the control interface for the multicooker itself. Instead of a separate dial or touchscreen bolted onto the base, the handle you’re already holding becomes the same point of control.

Underneath all of it sits an induction base, the one component that stays put on the counter while everything else moves. Magnetic connections join the vessel, lid, and handle to that base, a detail that does more than simplify assembly. It keeps the overall system lighter, safer to handle when hot, and considerably easier to break apart and clean once a meal wraps up.

None of these choices exist in isolation. The vessel’s shape-shifting utility only works because the lid is ready to become a plate the moment cooking stops, and that handoff only feels seamless because the handle and magnetic base keep every piece aligned and secure throughout. Each part borrows from the next, turning what would normally be three separate categories of kitchenware into a single, continuous object.

For a kitchen already crowded with single-purpose gadgets, DYSH argues for consolidation instead of addition. A meal-kit cooker that eats its own leftovers, so to speak, absorbing the roles of a pan, a plate, and a serving dish into one connected system, changes what a full dinner’s cleanup actually looks like once the last bite is gone.

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Toyota’s $2,500 GR KART lets you own a real racing machine without the usual hassle

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Owning a racing kart usually comes with a few less exciting considerations. You have to ask where to keep it, how to get it to a circuit, and how much maintenance it will need between track days. Toyota Gazoo Racing has designed its new GR KART around those everyday concerns, creating an entry-level machine that is meant to make getting into motorsport a little less complicated.

Priced at approximately $2,500, the compact kart is aimed at newcomers and families who want something more serious than a rental kart without taking on the usual ownership headaches. Toyota is initially offering it in Japan through 36 participating kart tracks and seven GR Garage locations.

Designer: Toyota

The GR KART uses a 215-cc engine and weighs 183 pounds. Its driving position is designed to work for more than one person, with adjustable pedals and a tilting steering wheel accommodating drivers between 135 and 185 centimeters tall. That means a single kart can be shared within a family instead of being set up around one specific driver. Transport and storage have also been a major consideration of the design, as the kart can fit inside Toyota’s Noah and Voxy minivans without being disassembled. This means taking it to a circuit does not require a dedicated trailer or transport vehicle. Toyota has also designed its fuel system and oil catch tank so the kart can be stored vertically without first draining the fluids.

Maintenance is quite straightforward as there is no chain drive commonly found on racing karts. Toyota uses a belt-drive system with an automatic tensioner instead. It is a small change, but one that removes some of the routine adjustment and mess associated with a conventional chain. Toyota has also built a small digital layer around the ownership experience. A dedicated GR application provides instructional material for drivers, while buyers receive a digital driver’s passport. The passport can be used at participating tracks, helping simplify access for people who may be trying circuit driving for the first time.

The idea behind the GR KART is closely tied to Toyota chairman Akio Toyoda’s interest in making motorsport more accessible. Rather than positioning racing as an expensive hobby that requires specialist equipment and considerable preparation, Toyota is treating the kart more like an approachable piece of recreational equipment. The company says the project is intended to help more people experience motorsport and develop an interest in driving.

At less than $3,000, the go-kart is still a dedicated track machine, but Toyota has considered what happens before and after the actual driving. For an entry-level racing product, those details may ultimately be what make the biggest difference.

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Steel Pipe Stool That Never Uses a Single Weld or Screw

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I’ve seen a lot of stool designs that call themselves minimal and still hide a dozen fasteners under the seat. Yuval Meron’s Pipe Stool actually earns the word, and once you look closely at how the pieces meet each other, you start to appreciate it as a piece of design rather than just a fabrication trick.

The whole object reads as a single ribbon of steel that got folded, twisted, and locked into place. Look at where the seat cylinder meets the legs and you’ll notice small teardrop shaped holes and hook cutouts, cut with a laser before the metal was ever bent. Those cutouts aren’t decoration. They’re the joinery. One piece hooks through another and the tension of the bent steel holds everything tight, so the stool clicks together almost like a puzzle piece finding its slot. It’s a quiet bit of engineering that never announces itself, because from a few feet away it just looks like clean negative space.

Designer: Yuval Meron

The silhouette itself is what actually pulls me in. A rolled cylinder seat sits on top of two angled legs that splay out from a single central column, giving the whole thing a stance closer to a sawhorse or a gymnast’s pommel horse than a traditional four legged stool. That tripod like base means the stool never wobbles, even though it looks like it’s balancing on almost nothing. There’s something satisfying about a design that looks precarious and turns out to be the opposite.

Meron shows the Pipe Stool in a few finishes, and the variations tell you a lot about what this piece is trying to be. There’s a raw galvanized version, left with the mottled, slightly industrial sheen of unfinished steel, screws and seams visible on purpose rather than hidden away. Then there are the powder coated versions in navy and a deep red, which flatten the metal into a single confident color and make the stool feel more like a finished furniture object than a prototype. Seeing all three side by side, the raw metal, the navy, the red, makes clear this isn’t a one off art piece. It’s a system that can dress up or stay stripped down depending on where it needs to live.

The seat itself is the one part of the stool that isn’t steel. A padded cylindrical bolster, upholstered in a nubby woven fabric that echoes the tube shape underneath it, gets seated into the folded metal collar at the top. In the green version the fabric has almost a felted, sweater like texture, which is a smart contrast against all that cold, cut steel below it. It’s the kind of detail that makes you want to actually touch the thing before you sit on it, and honestly, that tension between soft seat and hard structure might be the most successful design decision in the whole piece.

What I appreciate most is that none of this needed extra parts to make it feel resolved. No visible bolts holding the seat to the base, no bracket doing quiet unglamorous work underneath. The hook and slot joints do the structural job, the powder coat or galvanized finish does the aesthetic job, and the upholstered bolster does the comfort job. Three problems, three simple solutions, no overlap.

I also like that Meron didn’t try to disguise the process. You can see exactly where the pipe was cut, exactly where it folds, exactly how one leg locks into the next. A lot of designers would sand that story away and pretend the object arrived whole. This one lets you read the making of it right there on the surface, which turns a stool into something closer to a diagram of its own construction.

It’s still a student project, and it may never make it past a handful of prototypes in a handful of colors. But it’s a genuinely good looking object regardless of where it ends up, one that manages to look sculptural and structural at the same time, and that’s a harder balance to strike than people give it credit for.

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tvOS 27: Here’s Everything Changing on Your Apple TV

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  The release of the Apple tvOS 27 update brings a host of new features and improvements designed to enhance the user experience. However, it also narrows the scope of device compatibility, leaving some older models behind. If you own an Apple TV 4K (2nd Gen) or 4K (3rd Gen), you’ll benefit from enhanced visuals, […]

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Duolingo Actually Teaches Us How to Say These Luxury Brand Names

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I don’t really move in circles where this is a big deal, but there’s still a certain anxiety that creeps in when I need to say a fashion brand’s name out loud in public. A lot of these luxury labels are genuinely hard to pronounce correctly, and there are people who will judge you for getting it wrong (even though no one really should, right?). So most of us just… don’t say it. We point. We mumble. We change the subject.

Duolingo is no stranger to hilarious, meme-worthy campaigns, and for New York Fashion Week this year, they skipped their usual “learn a new language” messaging in favor of something a little more niche: teaching us how to actually talk about fashion. Enter The Phonetic Collection, a capsule collection created in partnership with designer Megan O’Cain, where every single piece is built around the phonetic spelling of a major fashion house’s name. The goal? Help ordinary people like me correctly pronounce the brand names we’ve been quietly avoiding for years.

Designer: Megan O’Cain for Duolingo

Duolingo isn’t exactly pivoting into the fashion industry, but they were surprisingly serious (well, semi-serious) about pulling off this NYFW campaign. O’Cain reworked classic tailoring, sportswear silhouettes, and accessories using her signature curved shapes and a moody monochrome palette, then layered the phonetic typography on top using embroidery, distressing, 3D printing, and even puff paint. Duolingo also released a 90-second runway-style video on YouTube showing off the full seven-piece capsule in motion, so you can see the pieces the way they were meant to be seen: strutting, not just sitting on a hanger.

As for the pieces themselves, they’re genuinely clever. There’s a lime-green purse (naturally, in Duolingo’s signature green) spelling out “air-MESS” to teach you how to say Hermès without wincing. There’s a jacket reading “zhee-vahn-SHEE” so you never have to fumble through Givenchy again. And thanks to a mustard-yellow piece from the collection, I now know that Jacquemus is pronounced “zhahk-MOOS,” which is information I did not have twenty-four hours ago and honestly feel a little more confident having. Other pieces in the seven-look capsule tackle names like Moschino (“moh-SKEE-noh”), Loewe (“loh-EH-vey”), and Comme des Garçons, proving this wasn’t a one-off gag but a full crash course stitched into clothing.

Beyond being a genuinely funny marketing gimmick, this is Duolingo’s way of joining the fashion conversation during one of the industry’s biggest weeks, all while staying true to the brand’s signature irreverent humor. It also quietly reinforces the company’s actual mission: helping people communicate more confidently, whether that’s in a foreign language or in the very specific dialect of high fashion. As Duolingo’s CMO put it, people often love a designer’s work but hesitate before ever saying the name out loud, and that hesitation is exactly the gap this collection was designed to close.

What I appreciate most about The Phonetic Collection is that it doesn’t take itself too seriously while still being weirdly useful. It’s the kind of campaign that gets people talking (pun fully intended) not because it’s trying to sell you a $2,000 handbag, but because it pokes fun at a very real, very relatable insecurity. Fashion has always had its own gatekept vocabulary, and most of us have just quietly accepted that we’ll never crack the code. Leave it to a language app with a slightly unhinged owl mascot to turn that insecurity into a punchline and a wardrobe at the same time.

Will I ever own a piece from this capsule? Probably not; it was largely available through a New York pop-up where fans could bid their Duolingo streak for a chance to take one home. But the next time I’m standing in a store and see a Jacquemus tag, I won’t just nod and change the subject. I’ll say it correctly, thank a green owl for the lesson, and maybe, just maybe, judge myself a little less for not knowing it sooner.

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Linux 7.3 Hardware Support Adds Apple M3 and AMD GPUs

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Linux 7.3 introduces significant updates that address modern computing demands, focusing on performance, hardware compatibility and resource management. According to SavvyNik, one standout improvement is the hybrid CPU scheduling, which optimizes performance on mixed-core architectures like Intel Alder Lake and AMD Ryzen. Memory management has also seen notable advancements, with enhanced ZRAM and ZSWAP optimizations […]

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