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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Thanks to Artificial Intelligence, is the writing on the wall for the creative professions?
New AI tools – such as writing bot ChatGPT and AI image generator DALL·E – are coming to transform reality. But can they write and illustrate Wallpaper*, asks Jonathan Bell?
By Jonathan Bell • Published
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We Are Rewind takes tape into the 21st century
We Are Rewind’s self-consciously retro Cassette Player is designed to tap into our ongoing obsession for analogue formats. Just the thing for your mixtape 2022?
By Jonathan Bell • Published
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Nocs Monolith wireless speaker: a mighty sonic experience has arrived
Nocs puts its audio expertise into a single, supersized device, the Monolith wireless speaker
By Jonathan Bell • Last updated
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Ikea and Sonos Symfonisk floor lamp speaker elevates sound and light
This slender Symfonisk floor lamp speaker, a collaboration between Sonos and Ikea, sounds as good as it looks
By Jonathan Bell • Published
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Ten years of Microsoft Surface: the company’s design team on what comes next
The Microsoft Surface series is a well-established line of premium mobile devices. How are its designers continuing to innovate?
By Jonathan Bell • Published
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Wallpaper* wants… non-wearable sleep solutions to make the best of bedtime
These ten bedside accessories, low to high tech, aim to help you sleep, wake, and keep abreast of all your slumbering statistics
By Jonathan Bell • Published
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Wallpaper* wants… ten best-designed wireless chargers for Apple devices
Looking to get rid of wires? Our top ten elegantly designed MagSafe-compatible wireless charging stations will help you find your way through the tangle
By Jonathan Bell • Published
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New book for star-crossed cartophiles chronicles the world’s space bases, big and small
Blast off: ‘The Atlas of Space Rocket Launch Sites’ offers a global photographic tour of gateways into orbit, both high profile and off the radar
By Jonathan Bell • Published
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Minimoog Model D synthesiser: the analogue legend returns
Synth completists and collectors, as well as a new generation of avant-garde musicians, hail the return of Moog’s 1970 Minimoog Model D
By Jonathan Bell • Published
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Loewe Technology takes television design in a new direction with the Iconic
The new Loewe Iconic is an OLED TV featuring innovative materials, bold design, and a powerful sound system
By Jonathan Bell • Published
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Microsoft goes William Morris: the Surface Pro 9 Liberty Special Edition is now available
The Microsoft Surface Pro 9 Liberty Special Edition is a hybrid tablet and laptop embellished with a bespoke design
By Jonathan Bell • Published
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Love Hultén’s eccentric electronics projects chronicled in new book
Works is a beautiful new book about the bespoke audio and visual creations of Swedish craftsman Love Hultén
By Jonathan Bell • Published
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Devialet dives into the portable smart speaker market with its all-new Mania
French audio specialist Devialet explores the dark art of surround-sound portable audio with its new compact creation, the Mania
By Jonathan Bell • Published
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Google accelerates home WiFi with shapely new Nest WiFi Pro router
Google’s newest domestic device is inspired by ceramic art and incorporates the newest ultra-fast standard of WiFi technology, WiFi 6E
By Jonathan Bell • Published
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Nothing Ear (stick) offers high-fidelity and neat design in an ultra-light package
London-based tech company Nothing’s barely-there earbuds deliver exceptional sound and call quality
By Jonathan Bell • Published
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We’re spun around by Phaidon’s new history of turntable design
Revolution: The History of Turntable Design provides entertaining insight into the many ways that designers have shaped the simple record player over the decades
By Jonathan Bell • Last updated
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OPPO builds on its organic design language with a sculptural future HQ by ZHA
By Jonathan Bell • Published
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Hands on with the latest Google Pixel products
By Jonathan Bell • Published
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Cut your own grooves with Teenage Engineering’s new Record Factory
The PO-80 Record Factory from Yuri Suzuki and Teenage Engineering is a musical toy with a serious side
By Jonathan Bell • Last updated
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Wallpaper* Smart Space Awards 2022 winners: best design and tech for the home
Here are the winners of the Wallpaper* Smart Space Awards 2022 – discover what’s new and next in the world of domestic design and technology
By Jonathan Bell • Last updated
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Wallpaper* wants… perfect sound forever from nine new audio innovations
Our regular round-up of all that’s new and notable in the world of high-fidelity audio, from sound bars and speakers, to standalone units and components in the endlessly evolving world of digital sound
By Jonathan Bell • Last updated
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Apple Watch Ultra headlines the brand’s new products for autumn 2022
Apple Watch Ultra heads the charge as Apple gets serious about high performance and extreme sports, while the iPhone 14 Pro and Pro Max offer an unbeatable photography experience
By Nick Compton • Last updated
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Horse around: playful equestrian codes rule in Apple and Hermès’ new collaboration
The Apple Watch Hermès Series 8 imbues Hermès’ heritage with a playful design
By Hannah Silver • Last updated
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Six minimal devices designed to take the stress out of tech
Six pieces of simple and minimal tech – from a dumb phone to a low-tech laptop, and a radio designed for dementia patients – that promise to counter the impact of information overload and unnecessary feature creep
By Jonathan Bell • Last updated
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The little Amazon Astro is a big company’s first foray into domestic robotics
Amazon is betting big on home automation. Can the friendly-looking Astro ensure our relationship with robots gets off to a healthy start?
By Jonathan Bell • Last updated
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Wallpaper* wants… seven new turntables to take for a spin
Like all forms of audio tech, turntables span a massive range of abilities and prices. These seven new releases run from picnic-ready portables to audiophile-quality set-ups for the obsessive
By Jonathan Bell • Last updated
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Yves Béhar-designed underwater research station is inspired by 1960s design
Yves Béhar and his firm Fuseproject have collaborated with ocean conservationist Fabien Cousteau to design an underwater scientific research habitat of the future
By Jonathan Bell • Last updated