Here's what we looked at this week: Two experimental mobile drawer designs, by architect Keiji Ashizawa. MIT & Sumitomo develop a better UI design for excavators. An industrial designer's deconstructed tape measures help keep Ukraine free. Textile artist Ali Hill creates architectural renderings with a sewing machine. The Fairphone Gen. 6+, a user-repairable smartphone, finally comes to the 'States. The portable Rope Stool, borne from a Swedish-Japanese design collaboration. The summertime temperature differences of a black car vs. a white car. What's the air conditioning cost differential? Bangkok Project Studio's "non-architecture" town-hall pavilion. The crazy-looking roof is actually form follows function. Industrial design trio invents DTILE, a tile system for three-dimensional space. The Berninox 316, by Swiss product designer Julein Bernard, is a permanent stainless steel toothbrush with replaceable bristle heads. Unique architectural features: This disappearing balcony and coronally-rotating window, by architect Thomas Randall-Page. An historic industrial design beef: Raymond Loewy vs. Virgil Exner. How Wi-Fi can track your movements, everywhere, even if you're not carrying a device. No face-rec needed--the world's Wi-Fi routers are an accidental surveillance system. The Twinshaver: A low-tech, fast, safe, ergonomic head-shaving invention.

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