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Fast Company
18-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Fast Company
This purse that doubles as a speaker is the ultimate party trick
These specialty-made purses double as a mobile DJ kit. That's because Nik Bentel Studio 's newest purse, called the Tati Fête Bag, is actually wearable tech. The bag comes in two models: The $350 Speaker Bag, which pairs with bluetooth, and the $400 Mixer Bag, which has four input channels and is compatible with CD players, computers, phones, and amps. The bags started as a thought experiment, Nik Bentel tells Fast Company. 'What if your everyday bag looked and felt like a piece of audio gear?' The resulting bags have room to hold your phone, chapstick, and mints, but they also have about three hours of play time each. Made from an acrylic shell, the material was chosen because it 'allowed us to fully lean into the language of tech objects,' Bentel says. 'It has this glossy, rigid, futuristic feel that instantly evokes gadgetry and display cases.' This is a purse meant to look like a gadget, not the other way around. 'We wanted the bags to feel like they were pulled directly from a DJ booth,' Bentel says. Using fabric or leather would have softened the concept too much while acrylic gave the bags a 'clean, synthetic, almost sci-fi finish.' The biggest challenges were precision, since acrylic has to be cut perfectly, and scale. 'We wanted them to feel bold and graphic, but still functional as bags,' he says. 'And of course, getting the buttons, knobs, and laser-etched details just right took a lot of back-and-forth to make sure they captured that playful realism.' Bentel has made clever, whimsical bags before like one made out of electrical cords and another for a single slice of pizza. The Tati Fête Bag brings that same sense of humor to sound. The rise of digital music and streaming has put a premium on physical music experiences like LPs and helped bring back the turntable. A boom box that's a purse takes that impulse and makes it wearable.
Associated Press
27-06-2025
- Business
- Associated Press
LIV Golf Dallas Par Scores
Friday At Maridoe Golf Club Carrollton, Texas Purse: $20M (Individual); $5M (Team) Yardage: 7,533; Par: 72 First Round Team Scores
Bloomberg
20-06-2025
- Business
- Bloomberg
Luxury Counterfeiters Keep Outsmarting the Makers of $10,000 Handbags
By Dressed in a white lab coat, Mélissa B. slips on thin cotton gloves and gently places a Zanzibar blue Hermès Birkin bag, its iconic orange box, a cloth dust cover, and various documents on her desk. She steps back to eye the $18,000 purse, hunting for any bulges or bends. She runs her fingertips along the top, then picking up her pocket-size magnifying glass, she leans in to examine a palladium plate on the flap. The logo has evolved over time, but the engraved text has remained sharp and well-defined, with the characters evenly spaced. 'This is one of the key Birkin features to check,' she says. She shifts her gaze to the stitching, checking for consistency and uniformity. The four palladium feet on the bottom of the bag get a check to ensure they're made of the same metal as the rest of the hardware, and that they're hammered, not screwed, in place. Then she homes in on the zipper—ensuring it's one made by Hermès in-house, with its distinctive H-shaped stopper at the end.
New York Times
07-06-2025
- Sport
- New York Times
2025 Belmont Stakes live updates: Horses, odds and picks for today's race
Welcome to The Athletic's live coverage of the 2025 Belmont Stakes! While this race is historically held at Belmont Park in Elmont, N.Y., for the second consecutive year due to construction, the race is being held at Saratoga Race Course in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. The event will return to Belmont Park in 2026. Regardless, it should be an engaging day of racing on the track and of course, the winner of the Stakes will take home a purse of $2 million. Follow along throughout the day for the latest odds, analysis and reaction.
Associated Press
06-06-2025
- Business
- Associated Press
LIV Virginia Par Scores
Friday At Robert Trent Jones Golf Club Gainesville, Va. Purse: $20M (Individual); $5M (Team) Yardage: 7,418; Par: 71 First Round Team Scores
