Tech
For ideas that inspire and technology that lasts, we find the things that combine beauty and style to make the most of your digital life
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Moleskine Smart Writing System 2.0 seamlessly uploads your notes to the cloud
Bringing digital functionality to your jotting, sketching and writing, the upgraded Moleskine Smart Writing Set is a boon to the creative process, explains CEO Daniela Riccardi
By Jonathan Bell • Last updated
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Brionvega’s Mario Bellini reissue is the ultimate 1970s hi-fi design
Brionvega reissues RR231 Totem by Mario Bellini, a beautiful reminder of the heyday of immersive, freestanding audio systems
By Jonathan Bell • Last updated
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Year in review: technology editor Jonathan Bell’s top 10 tech stories of 2021
Wallpaper’s Jonathan Bell reveals his top 10 technology stories of 2021, spanning portable speakers, virtual supercars, reimagined electric guitars, and a peek inside Apple Park
By Jonathan Bell • Last updated
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Inside Apple Park: first look at the design team shaping the future of tech
Global exclusive! Led by Evans Hankey and Alan Dye, the Apple Design Team holds enormous sway over our evolving relationship with technology. Opening the doors to their studio at Apple Park in Cupertino for the first time, they offered us a deep dive into the working processes behind their latest creations
By Jonathan Bell • Last updated
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Tempting new technology that makes a bold visual statement
Design-led technology and gadgets on our wish list include these visual triumphs, from a distinctive portable speaker to a compelling camera
By Jonathan Bell • Last updated
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Microsoft designs deceptively simple ways to make its tech more accessible
The Microsoft Surface Adaptive Kit – making keyboards navigable for the visually impaired – is a modest but important accessory, and a move towards more accessible technology
By Jonathan Bell • Last updated
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See the light with LAYER Design's new meditation headset for Resonate
LAYER’s latest foray into tomorrow’s technology is this new headset, a collaboration with the American start-up Resonate
By Jonathan Bell • Last updated
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Contemporary stereo cabinets and consoles for good-looking audio
Stereo cabinets and consoles put your love of music on show. Here’s our pick of beautifully handcrafted contemporary hi-fi furniture
By Jonathan Bell • Last updated
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Cosmo is a cutting-edge take on the electric guitar by Verso
Verso Musical Instruments reimagines the electric guitar, with Cosmo, an utterly simplified, minimalist design, handcrafted with a body made of bent steel
By Jonathan Bell • Last updated
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Apple AirPods reach their third and best generation yet
Apple AirPods 3 come newly contoured for greater comfort, and with a ‘surround sound’ experience
By Nick Compton • Last updated
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Transparent’s portable Light speaker gets the party glowing
A portable speaker and lamp in one, the Light speaker by Swedish technology firm Transparent draws inspiration from the traditional lantern
By Jonathan Bell • Last updated
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Microsoft’s Surface Duo 2 is a newly enhanced pocket foldable
Microsoft Surface Duo 2 enters the foldable phone fray, with a host of improvements that bolster its status as a miniature workstation
By Jonathan Bell • Last updated
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Wellness technology: new devices for health, hygiene and clean living
Wellness and hygiene are high on our agenda right now – and technology firms are rising to current demand with everything from sanitiser dispensers to particle-counting vaccuum cleaners, automated loo seats to heart-monitoring T-shirts
By Jonathan Bell • Last updated
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Key design innovations in the new Apple Watch, iPhone, and MacBook Pro
Apple’s latest round of innovations delivers a wealth of fingertip functionality – here’s what to expect from the Apple Watch 7, iPhone 13 Pro, and MacBook Pro
By Nick Compton • Last updated
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New beauty brand challenges our perceptions of reality
The Unseen, an innovative material science company, is launching its beauty brand with an eyeshadow that looks different in physical and digital realities
By Mary Cleary • Last updated
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Pixel 6 Pro is ‘premium redefined’ says Google’s Ivy Ross
Ivy Ross, Google’s vice president of Design for Hardware Products, on the design decisions behind the new Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro phones
By Jonathan Bell • Last updated
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Urbanista’s new ‘Los Angeles’ headphones are solar powered
Urbanista unveils ‘Los Angeles’ solar-powered headphones that will charge as you wear them or when left in the light – a sound investment for sun-seekers
By Jonathan Bell • Last updated
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Elegant mechanical pencils get straight to the point
Mechanical pencils are forever sharp, for drawing, sketching and writing that’s always on point – here are some of the most elegant desk mates
By Jonathan Bell • Last updated
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Technogym’s new Personal Line is an exercise in neat design
Designed by Antonio Citterio, the Technogym Personal Line combines state-of-the-art fitness technology for the home with elevated craftmanship
By Simon Mills • Last updated
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Microsoft’s new Surface family delivers a surfeit of choice
New and updated Microsoft Surface devices include the Surface Laptop Studio and the Surface Duo 2 folding phone – here’s your chance to meet the family
By Jonathan Bell • Last updated
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New books: how designers see the world
Our round-up of new books spans James Dyson on his hits and misses, Stephen Bayley on the combustion age, an exploration of vintage synthesisers, and an axe lover’s handbook
By Jonathan Bell • Last updated
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La Boite Concept’s turntable and cabinet cater to vinyl revival
Vinyl revival fans, French audio firm La Boite Concept has built an elegant modular cabinet to house your treasured LPs, with room left over to give its new turntable a spin
By Jonathan Bell • Last updated
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Apple makes ‘2030 carbon neutral’ pledge
Apple has pledged that it will become carbon netural by 2030. We take a closer look at the steps the brand is taking to evolve its sustainability practices
By Tilly Macalister-Smith • Last updated
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Tameem Antoniades on video games to understand mental health
Coder Tameem Antoniades, co-founder of Ninja Theory, is working with neuroscientists on video games to help understand mental health. He’s also tipped by Michèle Lamy as a creative leader of the future, in Wallpaper’s 25th Anniversary Issue ‘5x5’ project
By Shawn Adams • Last updated
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Wireless speakers that go anywhere with style
Our edit of the best wireless speakers on the market for design-minded audiophiles
By Jonathan Bell • Last updated
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Aether audio eyewear takes care of sound and vision in one
With compact speakers embedded in high-quality sunglasses or glasses, Aether audio eyewear offers a very different listening experience to earbuds
By Jonathan Bell • Last updated
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Misho’s new AirPod earrings are stylish and practical
Six new styles of AirPod earrings make being plugged in a joy
By Hannah Silver • Last updated