Smart Living

Globe-Trotter and the Aston Martin Aramco Formula One Team release a limited-edition carry-on, passport sleeve and luggage tag, handcrafted in England and limited to 100 numbered pieces.

Bandai's Tamagotchi ring is a wearable digital pet with a full color LCD screen, three finishes, and over 30 characters to grow.

Pianni's Orphea is a pocket-sized electronic piano with real keys, polyphonic play and MIDI connectivity, gearing up for a Kickstarter launch.

Tramontina's Heritage Iron range brings uncoated cast iron cookware, built for Indian cooking, with a lifetime warranty. Price, availability and details.

The eleven air purifiers in this piece appear in no particular order, and nothing should be read into where any of them falls, because we have not ranked them and the sequence is deliberately random.

KEF has announced the LS LUXE, a luxury wireless speaker developed in partnership with the designer Ross Lovegrove, and it arrives carrying both a distinctive sculptural form and a set of new technologies the brand is introducing with it.

British audio brand Q Acoustics has added a new floorstanding speaker to its award-winning 3000c range, the 3040c, aimed at listeners who want to step up from a bookshelf speaker without surrendering floor space or the look of a room.

Ethimo and Studiopepe's new Coppe collection strips the vase back to its purest form, a seamless concrete vessel with handmade texture, continuing their ongoing outdoor design collaboration.

Ethimo's new Nida dining chair, designed by Chiara Andreatti, takes the humble rush-seated chair, the kind you'd find in an old countryside kitchen, and gives it a completely contemporary outdoor makeover, built to hold up beautifully season after season.

knIndustrie's cutting board collection, Barrique, S/Lab, and Essenze, is designed to move from prep station to dinner table without missing a beat, each piece built around its own material and its own personality.

Yashica has entered the Y2K mini-camera craze with the Funtastic Keychain Camera, a 22-gram digital camera that doubles as a wearable charm. Its flip-up selfie screen sets it apart from rivals like the Kodak Charmera, and licensed Hello Kitty and Snoopy editions turn a lo-fi gadget into a collectible, all for under $30.

Most smart locks are designed around a single door type, typically a standard wooden front door with a mortise or deadbolt. The Aqara Smart Lock U500 series, now available in the UK, takes a different approach, offering three separate versions built for door types that retrofit smart locks have historically struggled with.

Hosting has shifted from formal dinners to everyday gatherings, with more people investing in their kitchens and tablescapes as extensions of their lifestyle. In that context, the objects that sit on a table or a kitchen counter carry more weight than they used to. They are part of the atmosphere, not just the function.

At-home slushie machines have become a genuine kitchen appliance category over the past two years, largely on the back of the Ninja Slushi, which sells at £299.99. Salter, the British kitchen appliance brand, has now entered the same space with its own Slushie Maker, priced at £179.99 and built around a similar operating premise.

Robot vacuums have been solving floor-cleaning across single rooms and open-plan spaces for years, but stairs have remained the consistent limitation. Most models stop at the edge of a staircase. The Dreame Cyber X, first previewed at IFA Berlin in 2025 and formally announced at Dreame's Paris launch event this week, addresses that directly with a purpose-built stair-climbing system and now comes with a stair-cleaning function that was absent from the earlier concept.

Ducati was founded in Bologna in 1926, and the centenary has produced the kind of releases one would expect from a marque of its standing. The Barista M3 1926 Limited Edition Carbon Fiber, developed in collaboration with Swiss manufacturer Cuisine Barista, is a different kind of object: a capsule espresso machine built with the same material logic as a racing motorcycle.

Scavolini's Stilo, designed by Spalvieri & Del Ciotto, is a whole-home system that runs from kitchen through living area to bathroom within a single coherent design language, premised on the idea that the contemporary home no longer organises itself around fixed single-purpose rooms but around spaces that shift function across the day.

Inspired by early twentieth-century steamer trunks, the new Steamer Home Trunk retains their sturdy construction and generous proportions while focusing entirely on interior functionality. Placed at the end of a bed, it functions as an ottoman.

Fender and PAC-MAN have collaborated on a limited edition guitar that is equal parts collector's object and fully functional instrument. The limited edition Fender x PAC-MAN Player II Telecaster is available now as a web exclusive, made to order at £949, with a current delivery wait time of approximately four months from the point of order.

Pedrali has introduced what it calls the "Gentle Habitat," a design philosophy built around the idea that the spaces we live in should actively contribute to our well-being rather than simply hold our furniture, and the new collection it has built around that conviction is worth paying attention to.