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Elevator indicator panels take up a certain amount of wall space. Installers cut a hole in the wall roughly the size of the panel. However, Mitsubishi Electric Building Solutions has designed an easier-to-install solution. Their Projection Lantern for elevators requires just three holes: One for the wiring, and two for the anchor bolts that hold the bracket. There is no large

Here's what we looked at this week:Anker Bak and Takumi Kohgei's gorgeous Gaze Highback Chair.Renault brings back the canvas roof. A convertible-like experience that's cheaper to manufacture. Unitree has developed a production-ready mech suit.

Something you'll find in a European gardening center, but probably not an American one, are these palisade-style landscaping stones. They're a nifty (and probably meditative) way to create raised beds or landscaping features. Berlin-based design company

This outrageously chunky Cubio coffee table is by Danish furniture brand Formarkivet.The fabricators went to great lengths to hide the seams, giving this raw aluminum piece the look of something l

This Pommel stool was created by Industrial designer Jens‑Egil Nysæther and architectural designer Line Mari Sørra, a/k/a Lije Studio, a design firm in Oslo.

Francisco Paco Martinez has seen some big changes in his life. Though born in Mexico and trained as an architect, he now lives in Japan, where he works as a carpenter/craftsman. From his studio in Saitama, outside of Tokyo, Martinez runs classes in traditional Japanese hand tool use and furniture building. What most caught my eye is this unique workbench in his shop: Martinez built this low-tech height-adjustable workbench out of Cypress.

Supermarket produce bags have a short usage life. Japanese housewares brand Marna makes this little folding gewgaw to extend their utility. You pop it open, then it provides the structure to use produce bags as a mini trash bag: Or you can use it to bag sauce:

To stay warm in a cold space, you can either heat the entire space, or save money on energy by throwing on extra layers. But there is no opposite money-saving tactic for staying cool in a hot space.Sony engineer Kenji Ito aims to change that. He invented the Reon Pocket, Sony's wearable personal air conditioner. It's essentially a tiny heat pump that creates temperature differentials using semiconductors. It's worn at the base of one's neck, and a metal plate resting against the skin transmits cool. While it won't change your body's core temperature, the device can cool your local skin temperature by an astonishing 25°F / 14° C.

This unusual outdoor chair was designed by Loic Cao, Tanguy Caversaccio and Lola Jutzeler, of Swiss architecture firm SAGA. The Transat is a fixed piece of street furniture developed with Vitra and the Chair of Landscape Architecture at ETH Zurich, installed in the Botanical Garden of Lausanne. Its minimalist structure, straight lines, taut geometry, remains a sculpture un

Edge band trimmers are typically fiddly plastic things. But Japanese manufacturer Star-M's No. 4960 is a chunk of steel with a beefy handle. Though the handle looks like cast iron, it's actually ABS. The handle size and the 7.3 oz weight of the tool help to provide stability throughout the cut.