1. Google, 시선과 제스처 맥락을 읽고 위험을 사전 경고하는 AR 글래스 특허 출원3단계 공간 상호작용 인지 아키텍처: 부품 단위(포트·라벨), 단일 객체, 사물 간 기능적 관계를 3단계 줌 레벨로 동시 분석하여 사용자가 가리킨 대상을 식별하고 시선 및 제스처 유지 시간으로 의도 파악.질문 자동 생성 및 물리 공간 정보 오버레이: 손가락 지목 동작을 상세 프롬프트로 변환한 뒤 검색 엔진과 연동해 실물 기기 위에 조작법, 라벨, 가이드 라인을 증강현실로 증강 투사.사물 간 상호작용 분석을 통한 위험 사전 경고: 전자기기(하드디스크 등) 옆에 액체(커피잔 등)가 인접 배치된 상...

Point at a router port, and Google's AR glasses could answer a question you never asked out loud. The patent application also describes spotting a coffee cup parked too close to a hard drive.Smart glasses track desk objects such as a coffee cup and hard drive to warn users before accidents happen.What Google's AR glasses see when you pointEvery time you set up a new router, you squint at tiny port labels, grab your phone, and type a question into a search bar. Google's patent application describes AR glasses that skip the typing. You point a...

AI Is Transforming How Economies Develop and Compete.In the 2026 AI Maturity Matrix, most economies made progress in AI readiness, with nearly every economy progressing in at least one ASPIRE dimension––and scale and speed of their capability build up was the key differentiator.AI exposure is now concentrated in knowledge work, but a shift toward disruption of the physical economy is already underway; that exposure will broaden as physical AI and agentic systems scale.Among leading economies, Japan and South Korea joined the top tier of AI...

Parent company Inditex is leaning on high-profile designers, larger stores and pricier furniture to give Zara Home a distinctive identity and position Zara as a more premium brand. But turning design cachet into lasting pricing power is not so easy.Partnerships with leading designers and sofas priced as high as €10,600 signal Zara Home’s ambitions to compete in the high-end interiors market while retaining more affordable everyday products.The Biasi-Guadagnino collection mixes ready-to-wear and homewares products.Homewares can strengthen b...

Agility Robotics’ first practical robotic worker is nothing like I dreamed.When Agility Robotics set out more than a decade ago to pioneer legged robotics, co-founder Jonathan Hurst envisioned machines defined by biomechanical elegance—lithe, athletic humanoids capable of navigating the physical world with the effortless agility of living creatures. But with the commercial launch of Digit 5, the company’s first production-ready industrial worker, that original dream of animal grace has yielded to the unforgiving realities of warehouse eco...

The value generated by AI won’t spread evenly. Some sectors will expand their profit pools. Others will compress.

Women’s health technology startup Unravel Health has raised €2.5 million in funding to launch Micro Lab, an at-home diagnostic device designed to track daily hormone fluctuations using saliva-reading biosensors.The device, scheduled to begin shipping in 2027, aims to deliver rapid diagnostic results within minutes. By offering rapid, direct biomarker testing for estradiol and other key indicators, Unravel Health seeks to address the limitations of traditional, single-point blood tests, which frequently miss fluctuating daily symptom patter...

Sales of battery electric vehicles in the United States are up for the second quarter in a row after demand cratered in Q4 of 2025 as EV tax credits ended. Q3 of that year saw a rush of buyers at the last minute taking advantage of the credit that was canceled by the Trump administration, resulting in the sale of almost 440,000 EVs in the U.S. between July and September 2026. Q4 of 2025 saw sales numbers reduced by 44 percent. As of the latest figures for Q3 of 2026, demand has recovered some, but stayed behind levels of recent years when ta...

Most of the time, when you need to check a day or date, you open your phone’s default calendar app. For those of us who still use planners, we also like to flip through the calendar pages since our schedules are often written there. But maybe you rarely notice actual wall calendars displayed in offices or living rooms anymore. If there is one, it might be some random promotional gift. It can feel like we’ve stopped carefully choosing a wall or desk calendar that suits our aesthetic or that we find interesting.The Oboro Silver Moon Calendar...