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Here's what we looked at this week:Honda cancels its Giorgetto-Giugiaro-like EV. The company is bailing out of EVs, while Toyota doubles down. By Danish designer Alex Linder, a 1970s leather-topped executive desk with a built-in swappable accessory rail.Tomas Kral's humorous WAY rul

Germany manufacturer PETec specializes in making heavy-duty workbenches and welding tables, featuring their integrated Table Lift System. The user attaches a cordless drill that drives an internal spindle-chain mechanism, which raises and lowers the table. The system offers all of the convenience of hydraulics, without the attendant fluid and hardware. It not only allows one to optimize the ergonomics o

This Nenou Collection of seating is by Zurich-based industrial designer Jörg Boner. "No evident functions are assigned to the individual pieces," Boner writes. "Any single piece of seating furniture can simultaneously be used as a pouf, table, shelf, seating island, couch or

At first blush this Toyota Award, by Japanese industrial designer Tokujin Yoshioka, is mystifying. What is the form meant to represent? Is it arbitrary? Yoshioka is, after all, described as a contemporary artist as much as a designer.

Industrial designer Octavio Barrera hails from Spain's Canary Islands, where this project was executed. Barrera was hired to design a full complement of furniture—benches, tables, shelves, etc.—for the offices of the Rayuela Association, a community organization in Tenerife.To keep things affordable, Barrera designed everything out of plywood, all with straight cuts and unfinished edges. These pieces would be too lightweight to reliably stand on their own. Thus for ballast he specified Canary Island concrete block, the region's version of CMUs, which are made using local volcanic rock:

Here's a good piece of UX design, for challenging outdoor situations. Nestout's portable power banks have waterproof caps for the ports, as many outdoor products do. But those caps only work when they're plugged in. The assumption has always been that you've got the cap on when it's raining out.But what if you need to charge, and can't get under cover? For that situation, the Japanese outdoor brand has designed this water-resistant CAP-1. You push your charging cable's business end through a silicone gasket, plug in, then screw the entire thing shut on the powerbank's threaded neck.

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These unusual-looking Aluflex chairs were designed in 1951, by Swiss industrial designer Armin Wirth.

This inventive piece of furniture is by The New Raw, a Rotterdam-based design studio pushing the boundaries of robotic-arm 3D-printed furniture. Called the X Bench Swing, it's a two-person alternating-direction rocking chair.

This Tempo chess clock is by L.A.-based industrial designer Mike Jacobs. It channels the spirit of both vintage Braun and modern-day Teenage Engineering. It's rare to see an object that's both slick and playful, but Jacobs pulls it off. The se