Gallery: A Private Office Pod That'll Help You Find Your Work Flow

  • Image may contain Human Person Footwear Clothing Apparel Shoe Sitting Electronics Computer Pc and Furniture
    Steelcase
    01

    null

    The Brody, seen here, is the latest furniture design from Steelcase aimed at helping workers focus.
  • Image may contain Furniture Flooring Wood Floor Indoors Plywood Interior Design Lobby Room and Table
    Steelcase
    02

    null

    The basic components of Brody are fairly straightforward: It’s a one-person pod with an adjustable chair, a titling laptop stand on a swiveling arm, a footrest, and a privacy screen that encircles the person within. To create it, Steelcase's designers looked to a slew of research.
  • Image may contain Furniture Table Indoors Reception and Desk
    Steelcase
    03

    null

    First, they studied the behavior of college students in libraries. They found that most students escaped noisy areas and tended to lean back and prop their feet up.
  • Image may contain Human Person Computer Keyboard Electronics Computer Keyboard Computer Hardware Hardware and Laptop
    Steelcase
    04

    null

    The Brody accommodates that posture with a tilted laptop stand and foot rests.
  • Image may contain Indoors Room Lobby Furniture Living Room Human Person Table Couch Interior Design and Clothing
    Steelcase
    05

    null

    The privacy screens are removable, but they're also included not just to keep nosy passersby out, but to re-train the human eye away from peripheral activity. That, just as much as beeping phones and flashing notifications, pose a major distraction.
Read More
Spooky New Infostealer Malware Uses AI to ‘Autodox’ Victims
Named “Volta-Autodoxer,” the recently uncovered malware uses AI tools to collect troves of data about victims, from login credentials and credit card numbers to Discord sessions and UberEats receipts.
Lily Hay Newman
Light Up Your Home Like Christmas With These Smart String Lights
Glow up your home indoors or out with these versatile, discounted, full color smart string lights. They’re WIRED-tested and 25 percent off right now.
Simon Hill
There’s a Completely New Type of Whisky. It’s French and Made in Concrete Eggs
The founders of Maison Lineti are, in a world first, making single malt whisky as if it were wine—and the spirit world is mighty impressed.
Jeremy White
Power Outages Are No Match for This Fridge Battery
Backup by BioLite is designed to power your fridge when the grid goes down. It works, but protecting your ice cream doesn’t come cheap.
Christopher Null
Meta’s Muse Could Upend All Kinds of Businesses. It Hasn’t Yet
Companies have spent the past several weeks trying to reassure investors that Muse and other AI agents pose more of an opportunity than a threat.
Paresh Dave
An AI Agent Injected Drugs Into a Live Mouse’s Brain
A biotech startup let an agent choose a gene therapy and successfully inject the treatment, offering a startling glimpse of the future of research labs.
Emily Mullin
Get Bose QC Headphones at Their Lowest Price Ever
They’re a steal at over 40 percent off in multiple colors. Plus, other great Bose deals you should know about ahead of Black Friday.
Harry Rabinowitz
The Keurig Alta Brewer Can Do It All, With No Plastic Pods
This multifaceted home coffee brewer and its new AltaRounds will make you rethink everything you know about Keurig machines.
Louryn Strampe
Are Memories Transferable? Meet the Scientists Replicating an Infamous Study to Find Out
In the 1960’s, an odd experiment showed planarian worms could transfer memories by consuming each other. It was a sensational finding—that is until the worms stopped learning.
Claire L. Evans
Sunrise Alarm Clocks to Help You Adjust to Shorter Days
I’ve never been a morning person. This bedside gadget is the only thing that’s ever changed that.
Nena Farrell
White Dwarfs Aren’t Just White. Scientists Discover Dying Stars Turning Pink and Green
Astronomers find that a white dwarf’s density and the kind of material it absorbed from its surroundings can produce a rainbow of shades in the star’s atmosphere.
Petr Kubala
Wayfair Coupons for November 2026
Get 10% off with Wayfair promo code, up to 80% off furniture, and more top coupons.
Molly Higgins