Holland also said it "looks nothing like the original image" that Trump shared when he announced the incoming product last year. He said he "would not recommend it, not because of that but because largely we just don't know certain things about it."
Home fitness equipment has quietly moved into the living room, but most of it hasn't earned its place there. Dumbbells in particular are purely functional objects, usually made with rubber-coated iron and sold on practical merits alone. They get used, then tucked away or left on the floor because nobody really wants them on display. For most people, what's out of sight tends to be out of mind.
Iluka Cindi Greentree wanted a bag with features including insulation and charging ports. She designed one after seeing a TikTok video, then realized she had a business opportunity. This year, her company has been having five-figure months consistently and she quit her job.
LUNARIS takes that very stillness as its starting point. A conceptual chopstick design, it reinterprets the traditional form as a collectible dining object built around the relationship between material, atmosphere, and light. It doesn't try to reinvent how chopsticks work, but asks a quieter question: what if the object you pick up for dinner could change the feeling of the room around you? Designer: Ivana Nedeljkovska
In 2015, Redditors began asking who was behind the design - it had previously been a mystery. Their detective work attracted news outlets, too, and after some teamwork, a reporter named Thomas Gounley tracked Ekiss down.
AI can generate styles and components for a design system, but the output often lacks the necessary depth and robustness for production-ready solutions. Quick prototyping is the primary strength of AI-generated design systems, not their suitability for serious product development.
The fix, he told me, was temporary - he didn't have the right part and couldn't get it. This experience revealed a broader shift in how modern products are designed, sold, and owned - one that increasingly treats repair as optional and replacement as inevitable.
"We're in a unique spot here because we are really attached to the silhouette. We really don't want to change the outside, which is a challenging engineering function when you say no, the package is fixed," says Joseph Snyder, a system architect at KitchenAid.
