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Designed to quite literally put power at your fingertips (maybe not THAT literally), Zendure’s SuperHub basically solves the problem of having multiple devices to charge and just one power outlet. Designed as a power-brick but with multiple ports, the SuperHub lets you use one outlet to route power to all your devices, while at the same time, allowing you to transfer data between them… serving the role of a USB hub along with a power-delivery system.

The SuperHub isn’t so much a multi-port device as it is a way to multitask. Designed around the emerging culture of working from cafés, restaurants, or co-working spaces, the hub replaces the clunky power adapter that you use to charge your laptop with a slick, well-designed brick that takes care of all possible power needs. Armed with an AC power input on one end, and two USB-C ports, one USB-A port, and a 4K HDMI port on the other, the SuperHub takes ownership of both power as well as data delivery. You can connect multiple devices, including your laptop, to the SuperHub, charging them simultaneously, while also letting you plug an external display in to broadcast your phone, tablet, or laptop’s screen on it. SuperHub even supports Samsung’s DeX mode, allowing you to not just extend your phone’s display, but rather transform your phone into a full-fledged desktop running Samsung’s DeX desktop software.

The SuperHub does all this multitasking and heavy-lifting despite being as small as two Airpods cases placed side by side. “This small form factor is possible thanks to GaN (gallium nitride), a semiconductor material with specific benefits over its predecessors in certain applications. In power converters, GaN semiconductors run at a higher efficiency, produce less heat, and tolerate higher current compared to traditional silicon-based approaches”, say the folks at Zendure. This allows the SuperHub to multitask the way it does, efficiently supplying fast-charging power to your laptop, phone, tablet, gaming console, and even DSLR while being tethered to just one power-socket… so you could be in a studio, a workshop, a shared working space, or even a café and still be a 100% productive with all your gear!

Designer: Joe Zhang

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SuperHub – Card-Sized Charging, Data & Video Hub with Dual PD

SuperHub is a credit card-sized 4-port power adapter & hub, an integrated charging, data & video transfer solution for work, meetings, travel, entertainment and more. Wherever your day takes you, SuperHub lets you do more while carrying less.

USB C1: 30W Power Delivery, 5Gbps
USB C2: 18W Power Delivery
USB-A: 7.5W Power Output, 5Gbps
HDMI: 4K@60Hz

As a hybrid power adapter and hub, SuperHub is powerful enough to handle many tasks and compact enough to take anywhere, making your life easier.

Work: 30W Power Delivery + 18W Power Delivery

With 30W Power Delivery, SuperHub can fast-charge your iPad Pro, Switch, or even a MacBook at full speed, while charging iPhone up to 50% in 30 minutes at the same time. Powered by SuperHub, the 11” iPad Pro can get two more hours of charge in just one hour. That’s better than the 18W power adapter that comes with iPad Pro.

Meeting: Power Supply + HUB + HDMI Solution

SuperHub uses USB 3.1 with 5Gbps data transfer, 10 times faster than traditional USB 2.0. You can transfer a movie in seconds. Perfect for anyone who doesn’t like waiting.

Travel: Super High 5Gbps Data Transfer

Transferring photos from your camera to your computer probably isn’t the highlight of your day. SuperHub’s high-speed 5Gbps data transfer makes quick work of this task, anywhere. Yes, even without plugging it into the wall first.

SuperHub’s 4K@60Hz HDMI port allows you to connect compatible USB-C devices to a TV or larger display with up to 4K resolution. While similar products are capable of a slower frame rate of 30Hz, SuperHub delivers 60Hz performance. Whether you’re giving a presentation, watching a movie, or gaming, enjoy twice the detail.

Entertainment: A Better Viewing Experience

Watching movies directly on a phone or tablet is far from ideal. Use SuperHub to connect your compatible phone or tablet to a high-resolution display and enjoy up to 4K resolution at 60Hz.

DeX / PC Mode: Turn Your Samsung Galaxy S20 into a Laptop

If your phone supports DeX/PC mode, you can use SuperHub to connect your phone to an external display and keyboard. This feature is compatible with the latest Samsung S20. Leave the laptop at home if it’s not sparking joy today.

This feature is compatible with Samsung Galaxy S10/S20, Note 10/10+ for USB PD charging and DeX mode, Huawei P20/P30, Mate 10/20/30 series for USB PD charging and PC mode.

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A crosswalk sign with the people standing apart and warnings not to shake hands are among the series of conceptual signs designer Dylan Coonrad reinterpreted to fit with the coronavirus‘ social distancing guidelines.

Cannon Design creative director Coonrad has reimagined 10 street signs, road markings and building notices found around New York City to advise the public on how to stay safe and healthy amid the coronavirus outbreak.

Among the designs is a reinterpretation of the yellow school zone sign. It shows the two people on the sign no longer standing next to each other on the crosswalk, but instead walking far apart, referencing the need to social distance from one another.

Coonrad has also replaced the plastic yellow Caution Wet Floor stand with text that reads Celebrate Healthcare Workers. The notice imagines the person icon waving its arms in celebration instead of slipping on a wet surface.

The designer said he came up with the idea for the project after passing empty streets and vacant businesses on a run through Brooklyn, New York. He found himself paying more attention to the road signs on the route.

“These were the rules of the road just weeks ago,” he said. “Now they’re less important. Today, society needs constant reminders to socially distance, stay home, protect our elders, and much more.”

While the designs are only idealistic, Coonrad still hopes they can be short and simple messages that unite everyone even when asked to be apart.

“Conceptual in nature, we’re not suggesting actual street signs be modified,” he added. “Our hope is these images serve as a love letter to the places we live (NYC for me). The people we miss. And all that unites us, even when we have to keep at least six feet apart.”

To encourage the use of hand sanitiser, Coonrad redesigned the fire extinguisher placard to feature a soap bottle instead of the extinguisher symbol. Rather than reminding the public not to block the equipment the text instructs passersby to not hoard the hygienic product.

In his version, the red placards placed around New York subways that warn the public not to cross the train tracks advise people not to shake or hands or touch others.

The designer has also placed a black face mask across the New York Parks and Recreation’s white leaf logo, referencing the CDC’s recommendation that people wear protection when out.

Cannon Design is an international architecture firm with offices in cities including New York City, Los Angeles and Mumbai. Its projects include a sculptural glass hospital building in Southern California and high-rise medical facility in Montreal.

Other designers have redrawn logos and created graphics that express social distancing including Jure Tovrljan who redesigned the logos for companies such as Starbucks and Nike and several artists shared informative graphics on their Instagrams.

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Inside Sweden’s national architecture and design museum in Stockholm, ArkDes, the first-of-its-kind exhibition Weird Sensation Feels Good investigates autonomous sensory meridian response (ASMR)—a phenomenon now 13 million videos deep on the internet. ASMR—chilling, pleasurable tingles instigated by common sounds, like rustling, scratching or crinkling—grew beyond a niche subset. The exhibition examines the pre-internet history of ASMR, its development into an advertising and design tool, its explosive popularity today and the gender parity within. Weird Sensation Feels Good runs from 8 April through 1 November—with imagery online, and digital programming (including a virtual vernissage). Read all about it at Surface.

This week, readers are debating whether closing parks is necessary in the fight against coronavirus.

Sun downers: readers are divided after architects used social media to argue against threats to close London’s parks. One critic described the measure, aimed at controlling the coronavirus pandemic, as “collective punishment”.

“Parks should be open because British people can’t stay inside in 20c temperatures? Open a window and get a life,” responded JMFM. “Soon enough you’ll be back, roasting in your lovely parks. No one’s taking away your freedom, just asking for common sense.”

Red By Choice disagreed: “50 hectares – well that’s 500,000 square metres, just shy of 600,000 square yards. So if there were 3,000 people there, that’s around 20 square yards per person. Not exactly overcrowding.”

“Of course parks shouldn’t be closed, but they should be used responsibly,” said Alfred Hitchcock. “3,000 people gathering together in Brockwell Park cannot be described as behaving responsibly! It’s fine to go for a walk for an hour, as long as you keep your distance from others. It’s not fine to spend a full afternoon sunbathing or having a picnic.”

Ash K was also on the cautionary side: “Writing from my home office (spare room) in Spain. Today I will take a weekly trip to the shop and back, but I’m okay with that. Spain has reported a drop in cases for the last four consecutive days. Collective measures – note the absence of the word punishment.”

One commenter had a nice message for Dezeen’s British readers:



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One step too far: Nendo has caused controversy with its design for a family home in Tokyo. The house, which is home to three generations, has been labelled by commenters as dangerous thanks to a huge faux staircase which runs through the middle.

“Narcissistic house,” said Idracula. “No empathy in this structure. Little regard for occupants or visitor safety. This is what you get without building codes. Nonsense!”

Get Back To Work felt similarly: “Never mind the stupid, non-functioning staircase and the sheer drops – the rooms themselves are just soullessly boring.”

“This is an elegant, expressive, poetic, powerful structure. I am confused by the comments,” replied And Room. “If everyone wants a run-of-the-mill, cosy little cottage or bungalow, or timber-framed three-bedroom, suburban potted-plant-safety palace, why are you reading this magazine?”

“Because we are able to recognise functional, well planned and executed architecture versus architecture that is more about someone’s ‘daydream’ and/or the architect’s ‘ego stroking’ to get another second of attention,” responded Jay C White Cloud.

This reader loves one thing about the house:



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Micro wave: the porch of an Italian villa has been transformed into a 25-square-metre micro-apartment by architect Francesca Perani. It is supposed to be suitable for self-isolation, but not everyone is convinced.

“I like the use of perforated metal on the facade and I think the floor plan is indeed flexible,” praised Leo. “But I find the all-OSB look a bit disturbing.”

Troy Smith Studio agreed: “I don’t even like using OSB for a substrate. Smells like shiat too.”

“Good for temporary self-isolation,” added Jack Woodburn. “As in a wooden jail cell.”

Geof Bob had a different purpose in mind: “Useful as a doghouse for recalcitrant husbands.”

The materials used concerned this commenter for a different reason:



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Herd it here first: readers are swooning over an extension in Northampton, UK, which incorporates the ruins of a 17th-century parchment factory and old cattle shed. The project was completed by Will Gamble Architects.

“Just wonderful,” said Gustav. “A place where you would equally love to spend a summer’s evening, an autumn storm, or a cold winter’s day.”

“This could have gone sideways really quick,” continued JZ. “But they prevented it from becoming a gimmick. The clarity between what was existing and what is new is well-balanced. The additions are clearly of this era, allowing the present owners to leave their mark and celebrate the ongoing adaptation of the building.”

Aigoul was equally pleased: “Reading and looking at the pictures of this stunning renovation makes my confined day enjoyable and happy.”

“Labour of love linking six centuries – poetry in stone, brick, wood and age, transcending both functional and formal issues,” concluded Geof Bob.

This reader did have one gripe though:



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A free, four-part documentary on Hayao Miyazaki—co-founder of the beloved and iconic Studio Ghibli—is now streaming, thanks to Japanese broadcaster NHK. 10 Years with Hayao Miyazaki first aired last year and delves into the animator, manga artist, filmmaker and author’s artistic process and personal life—with a focus on his relationship with his son Gorō, who worked on Studio Ghibli films From Up on Poppy Hill and Tales from Earthsea. Fans can watch the series now at NHK. Find out more at Dazed.