The GAT Lamp: Reinterpreting Traditional Korean Headwear as Functional Design.The gat is one of the more distinctive objects in Korean material culture. Woven from horsehair and bamboo and worn by scholars and noblemen during the Joseon Dynasty, it communicates social standing through form alone. Its silhouette, a tall cylindrical crown on a flat, wide brim, is immediately recognizable. What that shape might become in a different time is a question the GAT lamp was designed to answer.The lamp takes its name and form from the gat, guided by t...

Y Combinator is increasingly backing startups tackling a less visible constraint on the AI boom: power and physical infrastructure. Its 2026 energy portfolio includes companies working on nuclear generation, off-grid data centers, cooling, energy procurement and grid optimization.One of the clearest examples is Voxel Energy, which is building data centers with on-site solar generation, distribution and energy storage to bypass lengthy grid-connection timelines. The company argues that power—not chips—is becoming the key bottleneck for expa...

The $40 billion youth sports industry is private equity’s new cash cow. What you need to know when PE comes to your town, why not all firms are problematic, and how you can fight back.When the refrigeration system failed at an ice rink outside Kalamazoo, Michigan, the local youth hockey association—a nonprofit that had skated there for six decades—was suddenly left without a home. Within a month, a private investment firm bought the building for $3.5 million with a promise to reopen it. However, when the club's director sat down to negoti...

The youngest members of the US workforce are increasingly skeptical about artificial intelligence, fearful that advances in the technology will lead to widespread job losses.Almost three-quarters of adults under 30 think the technology will mean fewer available jobs, up from 61% two years ago.More than half of Americans say they’re concerned by AI, while those who are well-established in the workplace are increasingly positive about AI.The youngest members of the US workforce are increasingly skeptical about artificial intelligence, fearful...

Takaya Awata wants udon to become one of those major global categories alongside burgers, chicken and pizza, with the US at the center of Toridoll Holdings Corp.’s overseas ambitions.Toridoll operates almost 2,100 restaurants, more than 40% of which are outside Japan, and is sticking to its hallmark feature of making noodles from scratch inside every restaurant despite the added labor.The company aims to give Marugame noodles a prized elastic texture, known in Japanese as koshi, and is automating parts of its business to keep costs down, wi...

1. Bloomberg의 진단 : 증시 폭락에도 40% 고쿠폰 ELS로 몰리는 한국 개인 투자자수익률 추구를 위한 ELS 발행 급증: 7월 한 달간 3조 5,000억 원 규모의 ELS가 발행되며 Samsung Electronics, SK Hynix 연계 연 40~50% 고쿠폰 상품으로 리테일 자금 대거 유입.원금 손실 리스크 및 매수 심리: 기초자산 70% 폭락 시 원금 손실이 발생하는 구조임에도 최근 주가 조정을 저점 매수 기회로 판단하는 투자 심리 작동.Financial Supervisory Service의 감독 강화: 다음 달부터 Knock-in 진입 시 경고 통지를 의무화하고 시장 위험 증대 시 ELS 구조 검토를 강화하는 당국의 규제 기조 가동.▷...

A historic stock selloff has driven South Korea’s retail investors toward complex structured products as the risk-loving cohort continues to look for ways to boost returns.The boom comes as regulators moved to curb frenzied retail demand for single-stock leveraged exchange-traded funds, which were blamed for amplifying market swings during the benchmark Kospi’s 22% plunge last month. This suggests that one of the biggest market routs in recent memory has done little to dampen retail appetite for risk, but just altered the products they cho...

Nissin Foods Holdings Co., the company that invented instant noodles, appears to have created an entirely new category with a hit product: cup noodles made with cold water.Initial supplies of the handy meal — available in Spicy Kimchi and Chicken Salt Lemon flavors — sold out a week after hitting store shelves on July 20, according to Nissin. While the Tokyo-based company didn’t disclose sales figures, it had anticipated supplies to last one to two months.Nissin, which has almost half of Japan’s instant-noodle market, has long leaned on...

Data Centers Are A Blue Collar Bonanza; It’s Not Your Imagination–Ridesharing Really Is More Expensive; Agents Are Early, But They’re Already Changing Things.The public markets are undergoing a fundamental structural shift, driven largely by retail participation and the relentless expansion of Exchange-Traded Funds (ETFs). According to market intelligence from Citadel, net inflows into ETFs are pacing for an all-time record, spurred by low barriers to entry and frictionless distribution. More importantly, the thematic focus of these capit...