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YADOM Editorial Team
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The editorial team behind THE YADOM. We mainly write product reviews and lifestyle articles.
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StationeryAug 5, 2026
The Pushpin That Leaves No Hole: Rethinking 'Piercing' as 'Holding'
The small hole a pushpin always leaves behind. A look at how mechanisms that hold paper without a needle rewrite that long-accepted assumption.
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OtherAug 5, 2026
One Simple Goal: Matching Colors. The Staircase Inside a Rubik's Cube
A goal understandable at a glance — match each face to one color — paired with a systematized method for solving it. A look at how the same cube becomes a different challenge for a beginner and an expert.
YADOM Editorial Team
LifestyleAug 5, 2026
Still, Yet Spinning: How One Axle Change Gave the Yo-Yo Its Depth
The shift from a fixed axle to a ball-bearing axle turned the yo-yo from a simple up-and-down toy into one capable of the 'sleep' — appearing still while still spinning. A look at the tricks that grew from it.
YADOM Editorial Team
ToyAug 2, 2026
Questioning the Shape of the Cup: What Meteor, the Distorted Kendama, Teaches
A kendama with an asymmetric, distorted cup. What breaking the standard form reveals about the essence of kendama as play.
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GadgetAug 2, 2026
Become a DJ with One Finger: The iPad App PlayGround
No instrumental experience required — just trace the pads. How PlayGround's design widens the entry point to making music.
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LifestyleAug 2, 2026
Press It, It Glows: The Simplicity of a Duck Night Lamp
No switch, no cord — just press the silicone duck and it lights up. Why the simplest possible interface can become a product's whole personality.
YADOM Editorial Team
LifestyleJul 30, 2026
Celebrating Without a Sound: The Twist-Open Confetti Cracker
No gunpowder, no bang. Just twist it open and watch the confetti fly, a party favor built for the photo-first era.
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LifestyleJul 30, 2026
The Glasses Straw: A Tool That Exists Purely to Make You Laugh
Almost no practical value, yet it never fails to get a laugh. A look at the glasses-shaped drinking straw.
YADOM Editorial Team
LifestyleJul 30, 2026
The Swiss Wooden Puzzle Sota Fujii Played With: cuboro
What you build with cuboro isn't a shape, it's a path. A look at the Swiss wooden marble-run puzzle that trains three-dimensional thinking.
YADOM Editorial Team
LifestyleJul 30, 2026
A Pocket-Sized Real Synthesizer: teenage engineering's Pocket Operator
An introduction to the Pocket Operator series — palm-sized synthesizers, drum machines, and samplers with exposed circuit boards and pixel LCD screens.
YADOM Editorial Team
LifestyleJul 30, 2026
Only the Person Holding the Pillow May Speak
A look at Breaking Bad's family meeting scene and the Indigenous talking-stick tradition, and the simple invention of routing the right to speak through one object.
YADOM Editorial Team
ToyJul 30, 2026
The Second Skateboard That Lives on a Desk: Fingerboarding
A look at fingerboarding, the finger-sized skateboard that shares the exact structure of the real thing.
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LifestyleJul 27, 2026
A Ceramic Wind Chime from Kyoto, Shaped Like a Spinning Record
A craft object layering a record's shape over a wind chime's sound. How Kyoto's ceramic and glass workshops build 'spinning sound.'
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OtherJul 27, 2026
The Mystery of the Corrugated Tube That Sings When You Swing It
No battery, no reed — yet swinging speed changes the pitch. How a corrugated whirly tube turns swirling air into sound.
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InteriorJul 27, 2026
A Sculpture Moved by Gravity Alone: The Spiraling Kinetic Toy
No power, no mechanism — just gravity and a curved surface. Introducing GRAVIMORPH's kinetic toys where a ball spirals in slow motion.
YADOM Editorial Team
InteriorJul 24, 2026
A Magnetic Ball Rolling Around a Circle: The Sculptural Object Tukkun
A wooden object where a magnetic ball rolls around a circular groove and settles at the point of strongest pull — a tool for doing nothing.
YADOM Editorial Team
LifestyleJul 24, 2026
Warming Hands, Slowly: The Ceramic Hand Warmer Tetanpo
A ceramic hand warmer you fill with hot water. Its slow heat conduction makes the warmth last longer than metal or resin alternatives.
YADOM Editorial Team
LifestyleJul 24, 2026
Light as Paper, Tough Against Rain: The Anaheim Laptop Sleeve in Tyvek
A 13-inch laptop sleeve made from DuPont's Tyvek, pairing about 50g of weight with real water resistance.
YADOM Editorial Team
ToyJul 24, 2026
Shake It and the Big Pieces Rise: Watching the Brazil Nut Effect in Your Own Hands
How the "Brazil nut effect" makes large particles rise to the top when shaken, and why a small kit that lets you watch it happen is so satisfying.
YADOM Editorial Team
LifestyleJul 24, 2026
Turning Envelopes, Not Pages: What "Nininshou" Says About Reading as Experience
Using Yorushika's epistolary novel "Nininshou" as an example, a look at books where opening an envelope becomes part of the reading experience itself.
YADOM Editorial Team