If you're on the hunt for lightweight wireless headphones but wearing earbuds or clip-ons never feels comfortable or secure, a relatively obscure Japanese headphone maker could have the solution. Final's new Porta headphones feature an on-ear design supported by a headband but with a structure made from a single piece of wire so they weigh just 40 grams. For comparison, Marshall's recently-launched Milton A.N.C. are also designed to be smaller on-ear headphones but weigh 200 grams.

The Final Porta are available for preorder now through the company's online store for 12,800 yen (around $80) with black or orange ear pads and shipping expected …

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Since gun-rights activist and alt-right-friendly agitator Cody Wilson made the first 3D-printed firearm 13 years ago, he's helped usher in a chaotic era of untraceable ghost guns. Now he's claiming another first: "the first AI-made gun." It's called the WASP.

I stood about 20 feet away as Wilson and his sidekick clamped the WASP to a DIY test mount outside Defense Distributed headquarters in Austin, Texas. The 3D-printed .22 caliber handgun is, in reality, little more than a pistol barrel attached to a spring-loaded plastic box. Its rudimentary design bears a resemblance to Wilson's single-shot 3D-printed "Liberator," albeit with some quint …

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Book of Shapes [via] is a collection of minimalist generative SVG patterns created by Nikolaj Sokolowski. Beautiful and elaborate, yet each defined by a few lines of code, they can be customized for use on the web or in print. — Read the rest

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There's no reason to make a USB-C cable that looks like an orange or green extension cable, which is all the more reason to want it.

The creator, Matty Benedetto, emailed me to let me know about his latest creation. — Read the rest

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An Italian entrepreneur by the name of Vittorio Martire has designed an ultra-high-end luxury fire extinguisher for superyacht owners who bristle at the sight of a red fire extinguisher.

Called the Incroyable, it debuted at the Monaco Yacht Show in 2026. — Read the rest

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The Best of British Design has you choose a favorite betweeen two classics over several rounds, eliminating the loser until only one illustrious masterpiece of design remains in the bracket.

The British understand Design. Let's find the most iconic British design ever, from architecture to pop art, and from fashion to typeface.

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Barstardica is an online type "foundry" that generates fonts mashed-up from classic typefaces. The resulting abominations are perfect for hostage letters, zany comedy and upsetting graphic designers. Preset features include scale, offset and skew, and you can set specific glyphs not to be swapped. — Read the rest

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The Lotus is a card-shuffling robot. It bridges the gap between super-cheap card shufflers that don't really work and casino-grade ones that cost thousands of dollars. This one is under $100, and it looks great.

From the company's Our Story page: "At the bottom, you have $20 plastic shufflers that jam, break, and sound terrible. — Read the rest

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This photo of a classic glass maple syrup bottle was posted on the Things for Ants subreddit. This page shares ant-sized objects. The creepy idea here is that the tiny glass handle is just the right size for some little ants to sit inside of and eat the sugar (ew!). — Read the rest

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