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Modern sewing machines may be portable, but they all require elecricity. Anytime you use one, you're either near a wall or you're creating a trip hazard.British designer Dom Johnson has changed that up with this Caddy, a mobile sewing station.

A year ago, to celebrate their 50th anniversary, Casio released this fully-functional Casio Ring Watch:That was a feat of engineering that the company couldn't have imagined in 1974. And now they're doing another ring thing, this time with their venerated G-Shock model. The

In the 1960s, Toyota's designers tackled a challenge that they hadn't yet: Design a vehicle with a lot of interior space, enough to carry up to eight passengers. Japanese law strictly regulated the length of vehicles, which presented the designers with a problem. They concluded that having the engine in the front, as was common at the time, ate up too much footprint to fulfill the mandate. So they opted for a cabover design, placing the engine beneath the driver.The result was the 1967 Toyota HiAce (pronounced "high ace"): Side note: The HiAce came standard with a heater—which was considered a luxury at the time!Shown above is the "Wagon" model, which

Here's what we looked at this week:Personomic's 3D-printed bike saddles: A perfect match for your specific butt.Specialty tool design: A rocket-launched rope thrower for emergency rescue. Kohler's new in-toilet camera for analyzing gut health.

Toyota is a gigantic company that serves all markets. As a reminder of that, this three-wheeled LS Micro concept by Toyota's Lexus arm is the polar opposite, in terms of both style and function, of their IMV Origin vehicle. The LS Micro was just unveiled at the 2025 Japan Mobility Show, so at press time there was no explanatory press materials. The brief description of the concept is that it provides "autonomous chaffeur capability" to the luxury market, and that "its role is to deliver unparalleled luxury and presence, specifically handling the last mile of travel in urban areas."

Toyota revealed something crazy-sounding at the 2025 Japan Mobility Show. (The event is currently underway, so no official press pack loaded with images has yet been released—images are sparing.) Revealed at an on-stage event, this is their IMV Origin. And yes, this is what it would look like in production:The plan is to make the vehicle's parts at a Toyota factory, and ship it in pieces, initially to the African market; "It is not yet assembled into a drivable car," Toyota President Koji Sato explains. "It is the local people who assemble and complete this car."Why? Because doing it that way creates jobs.

Alex Beloborodov is a Tbilisi-based custom furniture marker. Despite his experience with woodworking tools, he's new to turning; and faced with a project that required him to make hundreds of the same leg on a lathe, he came up with a clever jig that provides real-time visual feedback on which parts of the blank need to be removed.

Kirk James, Principal, CEO at CincoWith every new technology platform or toolset, and with the general maturation of manufacturing alongside design and engineering, we've seen something subtle but powerful happen over the past few decades: deeper integration. Teams that once worked in parallel now converge. Those who thrive are those who can bring together supply chain thinking, manufacturing expertise, material innovation, and advanced engineering.Consumer electronics brought out the best in this convergence, especially for electrical engineers. But I'd ar

Not bad for a company barely two years old. Kickback, an NYC-based electronics startup, makes this RETRADISC, a Bluetooth-enabled CD player. It came out last year, and has already been picked up by the MoMA Design Store.

Well, it's happening. This week California-based 1X Technologies started taking orders for their NEO, a humanoid robot that acts as a household servant. The 5'6 'bot can do laundry, tidy up the house, fetch objects, carry groceries, water plants, open