23MAR225: Some dapper farm animals
Legos on your desk, slick smart glasses, a dreamy camera bag, skip the line for a beta, and more...
Happy Sunday, everyone!
This week I've been marveling at the amazing Moncler Fall/Winter 2025 fashion show held in the French Alps, enviously admiring the gorgeous new Swiss passport design, reading up on the mess that is DRM on ebooks, and hanging out with some dapper farm animals.
On to the good stuff!
• 🗃️ Lego Desk Drawer - This is ridiculous and I think I need it. Lego made a beautiful wooden desk organizer drawer in the shape of a Lego building brick. It is made from oak, has 8 studs and a removable drawer. I want to see more furniture designs from them in this clean, playful style.
• 🤓 G1 Private Smart Glasses - These are the first pair of smart glasses I've considered trading my Meta Ray-bans in for. While they're missing the camera, they have a cool, minimal built-in display, and a really clean, lightweight aesthetic with excellent battery life. Tip of the hat to Andrew for sharing these.
• 🧳 Clever Supply Co Sling Pro - If you've been reading the Hiro Report for a while, you probably know I have a minor bag problem— Much like the principal author of the Federalist Papers, I can never be satisfied. This new 2L sling from Clever Supply Co will probably be my next purchase. Apart from looking great and offering some nice internal organization features, it also comes with a thoughtfully designed modifiable camera cube that can be adapted to hold an impressive array of camera types and sizes. Check out the always excellent Benjamin Haisch's walk through of all the things he can fit in this thing.
• 🌊 Surf by Flipboard - This is not at all sponsored, but the folks from Flipboard have been hard at work making their next big thing, and very kindly reached out to offer expedited access to the beta to subscribers of the Hiro Report— Just use Referral Code "SURFHIRO" at the link above. Surf is a sort of universal feed builder, letting you aggregate RSS feeds, YouTube Channels, Bluesky, Mastodon, and Threads accounts into custom feeds dedicated to your interests. You can also subscribe to curated feeds made by others, like my Indie Tech Writers feed. They're doing some awesome machine learning to let you get super granular about the feeds you build— For example, you can make a feed of writers you like but only include content from those writers when they specifically write about their desk set-ups, but not when they write about pencils. Impressively, distinct from apps like Tapestry, you can interact with content too— liking, retweeting, and replying to Bluesky, Mastodon, and federated Threads messages as you scroll them all integrated in one feed.
• 🔈 Bogasing M5* - Let me start by saying that the Bogasing is not the best portable speaker you can buy. But here's the thing— I don't need the best portable speaker I can buy. I need one that I can throw in my backpack and not worry about it getting crushed or scratched up. I also need one that lets me connect to it every which way— Bluetooth, Aux Cables, USB A and USB-C, and more. The Bogasing does all of that while kicking out an impressive amount of sound given its diminutive form factor and costing only $40-$60 depending on whether you can catch it on sale (which it frequently is). I've had mine for over a year now and it still works great, has crazy battery life and works equally well as a garage gym speaker and a monitor for my TE OP-1 Field. *Not sponsored, but this is an affiliate link to support the site at no additional cost to you.
That's it for this week, be safe, happy, and mischievous everyone!