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Akeem S. Roberts gives his two black cats imaginary dialogue that makes their late-night antics feel very familiar.
The cats have a plan, and your sleep is in the way.
A new anniversary essay revisits the flying saucer, commanding robot and urgent message that made The Day the Earth Stood Still a science-fiction landmark.
One robot. One saucer. Seventy-five years of questions.
Phil Oh finds playful layering and bold contrasts outside Paris’s latest runway shows.
The runway spills into the street
A simple maple cake gets a soft buttercream finish and a scattering of toasted pecans.
Fall baking can be one layer and a swirl of frosting.
A new look at smart rings compares premium and budget designs while asking how much useful insight their tiny sensors and software actually deliver.
The wearable computer is shrinking to a ring.
Fire Island’s glass-fronted Pyramid House returns to market with its distinctive geometry and sunset-filled living room intact.
A glass pyramid by the dunes
BAIT and G-SHOCK turn a digital watch into a speckled banana-inspired accessory, complete with a browned strap tip.
This watch has freckles for a reason.
IKEA and Xbox turn familiar controller shapes into everyday furniture, including a thumbstick stool, D-pad cushion and clever storage pieces.
That giant thumbstick is actually a stool.
A modest lakeside chalet is reworked within its existing footprint into a light-filled, year-round retreat.
A small chalet finds new life
A manicurist’s October colour forecast moves from deep plum and midnight blue to warm terracotta.
Your autumn manicure palette has room for more than burgundy.
A small clip designed for 91-mm Swiss Army knives promises tool-free attachment, pocket carry and a spare screwdriver function.
A tiny clip rethinks a familiar pocket tool.
A new Rick Mather monograph traces the architect’s quietly transformative approach to museums and cultural buildings.
The architect behind familiar museum spaces
The editors’ current home-cooking picks turn leeks, roast chicken and crisp lettuce into approachable autumn dinners.
Dinner inspiration from what food editors actually cooked.
A launch-week hands-on tour shows how Minecraft Dungeons II links its colorful regions, repeatable encounters and character upgrades into one larger adventure.
The journey between dungeons is part of the game.
Cabreira House negotiates a tight suburban plot with broad overhangs, crisp white volumes and warm timber interiors.
Sharp geometry meets soft forest light
A narrow Brooklyn site opens into a light-filled duplex with factory-style windows, walnut cabinetry and a marble kitchen.
A 25-foot-wide site hides this airy interior.
A new Pan America Special road test takes a close look at Harley-Davidson’s adventure-touring machine, from its adaptive ride height to its digital dashboard.
This Harley lowers itself when you stop.
Pardini Hall Architecture’s Meadows proposal links stone buildings and glazed rooms through a carefully planted Cotswolds garden.
A hotel imagined around its garden
Anrealage’s runway dresses turn electronic-paper scales and intricate wiring into color-changing surfaces.
A dress that changes its own pattern.
PlayStation spotlights player-made Logan portraits, from casino chaos to a shadowed cowboy close-up.
Wolverine players turn Logan into a photo subject.
The latest Nikon Comedy Wildlife finalists turn split-second animal encounters into an exuberant gallery of visual punchlines.
Wildlife has a blooper reel
Myriam Lemon channels a pastry-making background into playful ceramics and textured Moroccan scenes.
Breakfast becomes a teapot.
A hands-on review explores a nostalgic handheld with Android flexibility and upgraded controls.
The Game Boy Advance shape gets an Android revival.
Loewe brings its Paris runway into an all-white, two-storey arena designed to bring the audience closer to the clothes.
A fashion show built like a theatre
Sarah Jessica Parker pairs a sweeping ribbon braid with a pink gala dress.
A fairytale braid, silver strands included.
Ember Lab shares Kena’s elemental world and canine companion while moving the sequel’s release to 2027.
Kena’s next world comes with a striking spirit mount.
Louvre-Lens explores the emotional power of cute through centuries of art, wrapped in pink rooms, soft surfaces and glitter.
The museum is taking cute seriously
Dorothy maps 1,200 pop names onto a cassette-player circuit diagram in metallic silver.
Follow the circuitry of pop.
A rugged phone’s camera pops out to become a mountable action camera, with notable size and video-resolution trade-offs.
This phone’s camera can leave the phone behind.
Happy Menocal brings a historic farmhouse to life with painted ferns, exuberant textiles and pendant lights made from disposable trays.
Dinner trays become chandeliers
Iara brings Amazonian ingredients into colorful dishes on New York’s Lower East Side.
A rainforest-inspired dinner in Manhattan.
Nocs’ tiny screenless camera can dock to binoculars, turning a familiar outdoor tool into a picture-taking system.
A camera that borrows your binoculars’ view.
A former Athens warehouse layers concrete lofts, a bakery, an apotheke and a penthouse into one quietly tactile retreat.
One warehouse, an entire way of living
A new crochet tutorial turns an orange rectangle and small brown stem into a plush pumpkin.
From flat stitches to fall decor.
A modular storage crate unfolds into traction boards, giving overlanding cargo storage a second job when a vehicle gets stuck.
Your storage crate could help free your truck.
Bisila Noha’s expressive clay vessels connect material experiments with heritage, women’s labour and the rituals of communal making.
These vessels carry more than clay
Lilac manicures range from restrained French tips to sculptural flowers and sparkling embellishments.
Pastel purple stays for fall.
Amazon’s latest Kindle refresh brings new finishes and physical page-turning accessories.
Physical page-turn buttons are making a comeback.
Three enormous chandeliers turn Saint Laurent’s outdoor Paris runway into a golden ballroom beneath the Eiffel Tower.
A ballroom without walls
Sunset’s new October roundup turns squash, roasted vegetables and breads into cozy cooking inspiration.
October, served warm.
Aston Martin’s new DBX GT pairs substantial V8 power with quieter cabin treatment and more restrained styling.
A 717-horsepower SUV takes the grand-touring route.
Archival photos mark Julie Andrews’s birthday with glimpses of her life at home.
Julie Andrews, between performances
Kogen pairs precision sushi with custom ceramics in a compact Santa Monica dining room.
Tiny plates, meticulous craft.
Aliner’s revived Alite nameplate packs a two-person sleeping space into a folding camper weighing under 700 pounds.
A tiny towable box unfolds into an A-frame.
Exposed timber trusses and a carefully excavated bedroom zone give a São Paulo home more space without changing its familiar proportions.
More room, without adding a storey
A preview of Handroll Hawker introduces Australia’s portable, uncut sushi-roll format ahead of a planned San Francisco opening.
Sushi built for one-handed lunch.
A freshly updated observing guide maps October’s planetary encounters with clear sky charts.
October has a month of sights overhead.
Lorenzo Castillo joins two Oviedo apartments into a richly layered home of deep colour, antiques and theatrical rooms.
Two apartments become one colourful retreat
Rugsoda turns an everyday street object into a graffiti-embroidered shoulder bag with opening lids.
This tiny dumpster holds your essentials.
Crew-13 has reached the station and floated through the hatch after a record-short American trip to orbit’s laboratory.
Four astronauts are settling into their new orbital home.
A behind-the-scenes look at Africa: Earth’s Wild Home reveals the inventive cameras and patient crews behind its extraordinary animal encounters.
How do you film wildlife from the animal’s point of view?
Briciola brings Brazilian ingredients to Italian dishes in a compact Silver Lake restaurant.
Pasta takes a Brazilian detour.
Huawei’s Ruiying Z10 attaches a dedicated sensor and long zoom lens to selected phones, turning the handset into a modular camera.
This phone accessory brings its own camera sensor.
Ellie Campbell transforms club footage into exuberant painted animation, leaving visible brushwork and distorted expressions in every frame.
These dance moves were painted frame by frame.
An eyebrow-tattoo diary in pictures.
See the healed result.
October’s PlayStation Plus lineup brings Formula One racing, monster hunting and colorful voxel battles to members starting October 6.
Three very different game nights arrive next week.
Steven Meisel’s theatrical portraits reveal Galliano’s first Zara collection, built around deconstruction, historical silhouettes and familiar garments transformed.
Everyday clothes take on theatrical new shapes.
Alexandra Halsey transforms a pumpkin manicure idea into a tiny heart-shaped crochet decoration.
A manicure becomes a mini pumpkin.
Moonwalkers Dusk pair illuminated wheels with gait-adapting assistance and three sizes in Shift Robotics’ latest walking-shoe design.
Your next pair of wheels might strap onto your shoes.
Visit Sweden’s playful campaign swaps crowded itineraries for personal space, with a London pop-up planned for later in October.
A travel agency where small talk is optional.