Core77 Weekly Roundup (9-21-26 to 9-25-26)

Here’s what we looked at this week:KAIST develops a low-cost way to detect hidden cameras using your smartphone.
Industrial designer Alberto Essesi’s pen for precision sketching.The Celluveyor: A next-generation omnidirectional modular conveyor belt.Early transforming furniture: Richard Neutra’s Camel Table. What an anodized aluminum baseball cap holder says about our product landscape.The UI of a stencil machine. Designed in the 1940s, but still effective.Cory Johnson’s Infinite Pocket Jeans. Cost-cutting disguised as minimalism: Volvo’s EX30 dashboard goes too far.A minimalist low-cost Japanese sketchbook.Motomorphosis: MSCHF’s radically modified Lexuses.The Easy Roller: An alternative take on the pizza cutter.An architectural-scale kintsugi project: Restoring a pre-Revolutionary-War house with glass rather than masonry.Raak Design casts light on a medical tool.Mafell’s beefy portable drilling station for timber framers eliminates the pain points of incumbent designs.