There's a moment when technology stops being a tool and becomes a presence. With NEO, the humanoid robot developed by Norwegian company 1X Technologies, that moment appears to have arrived. Standing 167 cm tall and designed from day one to move through the rooms of a home, NEO is not just a more advanced appliance: it's a quiet companion that stands alongside the family in everyday activities, giving back time, energy, and peace of mind to those who welcome it in. A Hand That Can Feel NEO's...

From the peaks of Aspen to the shores of Capri, the spirit that turned the after-ski ritual into an art of living Some ideas are born in boardrooms, and some are born in a gondola. Snow Tequila belongs to the rarer, finer second kind: conceived suspended between sky and snow, as the cable car climbs slowly toward the summit and the conversation drifts — the way it only does at altitude — toward the things that truly matter. It was there, on a shared gondola above the slopes of Aspen, that...

For more than a century, a Montblanc has been less a writing instrument than a statement — a small, weighty object that signals taste before a single word is written. The house traces its origins to 1906, taking shape as Montblanc in 1908, and borrowed its name from the highest peak in Western Europe as a promise of pinnacle craftsmanship. That mythology is built into every nib: the engraved figure 4810 echoes the mountain's height in metres, while the six-pointed white star crowning each cap...