Consumer packaged goods made for big households and upselling are designed for a world that no longer exists.The future of food packaging is petit.While warehouse stores offering food and household items in bulk will always have a draw among consumers looking for volume discounts, the grocery store of 2035 could look different from today’s, with tinier packaging on its shelves, according to a new report. Unlike stealth shrinkflation, which packs less product into the same sized package for the same price, the new era of smaller portions is...

Endurance Energy plans to build a network of undersea power plants that make use of the Earth’s heat.Roughly 300 miles off the coast of Oregon, where the Pacific Ocean plunges nearly a mile into total darkness, an ambitious clean energy experiment recently unfolded on the jagged slopes of an active underwater volcano. Facing ten-foot swells on the surface, a team of engineers and scientists aboard an offshore research vessel deployed a specialized subsea drilling rig 5,000 feet down to the Axial Seamount caldera. There, amid boiling hydroth...

ChatGPT was 32x bigger than Claude a year ago. Now it’s 5.5x. In one modeled scenario, the lead disappears in April 2037.The gap is closing fastChatGPT is still the most visited AI chatbot by a wide margin, with 6.6B monthly web visits in August 2026. But in August 2025, it was 32 times bigger than Claude. One year later, it was only 5.5 times bigger.What the chart showsThis chart is one modeled path where Claude catches ChatGPT, out of 250,000 forecast simulations through April 2037.How the lead disappearsLate 2026: ChatGPT’s lead widens...

For London-based transport design studio Of My Imagination (OMI), designing a human-centered interior for the Thunderbird Space Station meant working without the reference points every room on Earth takes for granted: a floor, a ceiling, a daily cycle of light. Developed as the first concept design for Florida-based startup Max Space, the habitat is engineered to launch on a single SpaceX Falcon 9 and expand in orbit into 350 cubic meters (12,360 cubic feet) of pressurized volume, roughly a third of the size of the International Space Statio...

Hyundai got everybody talking about pixels in 2019, when the 45 EV Concept showed up in Frankfurt with square-cut lights, and the Ioniq 5 carried the idea to showrooms in 2021. Hyundai even named the look Parametric Pixel and spread it across the headlights, taillights, and wheels. It was a smart move, and it gave the Ioniq 5 a face you could pick out of a parking lot from across the street. Still, Hyundai used pixels like a seasoning, a sprinkle here and a dash there. Somebody was bound to dump the whole shaker.That somebody is Uygar, a Tur...

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...