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Coach is a fashion brand that has been making Apple Watch bands since June 2016, which the company has periodically refreshed with new styles, colors, and designs. Given that the fall season is fast approaching, it’s only logical that Coach would update its offerings with new fall colors to match your fall ensemble (assuming you’re the kind of person who buys seasonal watch bands, anyway.) Haute Écriture has the full rundown on what exactly is new in Coach’s lineup, if you’re interested in the complete lineup.

But we’re not really here to talk about that. We’re here to talk about the new Goldenrod color for the Rexy strap, which stands out from Coach’s other $150 Apple Watch bands by the…

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Coach is a fashion brand that has been making Apple Watch bands since June 2016, which the company has periodically refreshed with new styles, colors, and designs. Given that the fall season is fast approaching, it’s only logical that Coach would update its offerings with new fall colors to match your fall ensemble (assuming you’re the kind of person who buys seasonal watch bands, anyway.) Haute Écriture has the full rundown on what exactly is new in Coach’s lineup, if you’re interested in the complete lineup.

But we’re not really here to talk about that. We’re here to talk about the new Goldenrod color for the Rexy strap, which stands out from Coach’s other $150 Apple Watch bands by the…

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The BBC announced on Thursday that it is changing its branding guidelines to BBC Sport, and that it is using the update to start rolling out a new font will be used across the broadcaster’s portfolio of TV and digital platforms. The new typeface is designed specifically to be seen clearly on mobile devices, and will save the broadcaster money.

The in-house font is called BBC Reith, and is named for the broadcaster’s founder, Lord Reith. Colin Burns, the BBC’s Chief Design Officer with Design & Engineering explained that the current fonts — Gill Sans, Arial, and Neue Helvetica — were “developed [in the] last century and work well in print,” but that they don’t always show up clearly on small screens. Thus, the BBC’s User Experience &…

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The BBC announced on Thursday that it is changing its branding guidelines to BBC Sport, and that it is using the update to start rolling out a new font will be used across the broadcaster’s portfolio of TV and digital platforms. The new typeface is designed specifically to be seen clearly on mobile devices, and will save the broadcaster money.

The in-house font is called BBC Reith, and is named for the broadcaster’s founder, Lord Reith. Colin Burns, the BBC’s Chief Design Officer with Design & Engineering explained that the current fonts — Gill Sans, Arial, and Neue Helvetica — were “developed [in the] last century and work well in print,” but that they don’t always show up clearly on small screens. Thus, the BBC’s User Experience &…

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Since their invention in the 14th century, clocks have been a mainstay of figuring out the time and whether you’re late to your next meeting. And while we’ve no doubt made advances in horology since then to improve accuracy — quartz movements, digital clocks, and the like — for the most part, clocks have been working out pretty well in their traditional incarnation. You know, the “thing with numbers that tells you what time it is.”

Today, however, I’m confronted with “Patience.” First spotted by DesignTaxi, it’sa new project from Japanese design studio we+, and I’m forced to ask: what was so wrong with regular clocks that you felt the world needed this?

You see, Patience tells the time similar to any analog clock, with one crucial…

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Since their invention in the 14th century, clocks have been a mainstay of figuring out the time and whether you’re late to your next meeting. And while we’ve no doubt made advances in horology since then to improve accuracy — quartz movements, digital clocks, and the like — for the most part, clocks have been working out pretty well in their traditional incarnation. You know, the “thing with numbers that tells you what time it is.”

Today, however, I’m confronted with “Patience.” First spotted by DesignTaxi, it’sa new project from Japanese design studio we+, and I’m forced to ask: what was so wrong with regular clocks that you felt the world needed this?

You see, Patience tells the time similar to any analog clock, with one crucial…

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Last year, MIT and Stanford debuted a new type of robot that could crawl over the surface of your clothing with the use of magnets. Now, it appears to have gone high fashion. It’s no longer a “rovable,” it’s Project Kino (kinetic wearables).

The small robots now house an array of colorful shields and will ideally serve both functional and aesthetic purposes. The video shows them moving about a dress as “shape changing jewelry,” its wheels leaving marks across velvet in what Project Kino calls “etching,” and a brooch moving up a garment to become a microphone.

“We’re thinking of wearables as a personal assistant. We think in the future, when they can have a brain of their own, they can learn your habits, learn your professional style, and…

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Last year, MIT and Stanford debuted a new type of robot that could crawl over the surface of your clothing with the use of magnets. Now, it appears to have gone high fashion. It’s no longer a “rovable,” it’s Project Kino (kinetic wearables).

The small robots now house an array of colorful shields and will ideally serve both functional and aesthetic purposes. The video shows them moving about a dress as “shape changing jewelry,” its wheels leaving marks across velvet in what Project Kino calls “etching,” and a brooch moving up a garment to become a microphone.

“We’re thinking of wearables as a personal assistant. We think in the future, when they can have a brain of their own, they can learn your habits, learn your professional style, and…

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There was once a time, before Samsung’s meteoric rise to the top of the smartphone sales charts, when HTC was the leading innovator among Android phone makers. The Taiwanese company was first to have a 4.3-inch screen, first to have an aluminum unibody phone, and was simply the best when it came to design and refinement. The HTC Hero, Legend, Droid Incredible, and Sensation were standard-setting devices even before we got the timeless HTC One X. HTC was the Apple of the Android world, or at least the closest analog we had.

But the past few years have not been as fruitful for HTC, which has produced a series of beautiful disappointments. This year’s U Ultra was another compendium of bad ideas, and I was just about ready to admit to myself…

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There was once a time, before Samsung’s meteoric rise to the top of the smartphone sales charts, when HTC was the leading innovator among Android phone makers. The Taiwanese company was first to have a 4.3-inch screen, first to have an aluminum unibody phone, and was simply the best when it came to design and refinement. The HTC Hero, Legend, Droid Incredible, and Sensation were standard-setting devices even before we got the timeless HTC One X. HTC was the Apple of the Android world, or at least the closest analog we had.

But the past few years have not been as fruitful for HTC, which has produced a series of beautiful disappointments. This year’s U Ultra was another compendium of bad ideas, and I was just about ready to admit to myself…

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