Designer Seojin Lee creates muto, a concept ASMR home device that locks smartphones for a digital detox. Users first download the dedicated app to set the timer. Then, they place their smartphones into muto’s holder. Once they’re ready to let go of their artificial screens and enter into a digital detox, the machine locks the smartphone until the set time is up. While they can’t use their pe...

The Spark of Discovery : Reigniting The Emotion of EcommerceOnce a Saturday ritual on the high street, shopping has shape-shifted into a 24/7 digital drip — from TikTok hauls to Roblox skins to one-click Amazon finds. But in the shift from discovery to delivery, something got lost: the spark.Criteo’s latest report — The Spark of Discovery: Reigniting the Emotion of E-Commerce — dives into t...

Samsung’s patent covers an electronic device that may include the following:a base provided with a plurality of driving rotating bodies;a beam projector including an image projection-unit seated on the plurality of driving rotating bodies and projecting an image;a first driving unit providing power to the plurality of driving rotating bodies;and a processor rotating the plurality of driving ro...

Deep within a rugged fjord in Norway, our team huddled around an enclosed metal racetrack, full of salt water, that stood about a meter off the ground on stilts. We called the hulking metal contraption our “fish run.” Inside, a salmon circled the 3-meter diameter loop, following its instincts and swimming tirelessly against the current. A stopwatch beeped, and someone yelled “Next fish!” We...

Buzzy brands Rhode and Revolve dominated the festival, according to an analysis of earned media value on influencer posts.As festivalgoers flocked to the California desert to see Lady Gaga, Charli XCX and Megan Thee Stallion over Coachella’s first weekend, the “clout Olympics” for brands moved into full swing.Beyond the festival ground itself was the usual array of parties, hosted by brands...

Large Language Models (LLMs) have transformed the natural language processing landscape and brought to life diverse applications. Pretraining on vastweb-scale data has laid the foundation for these models, yet the researchcommunity is now increasingly shifting focus toward post-training techniques toachieve further breakthroughs. While pretraining provides a broad linguisticfoundation, post-tra...

A recent study published in Frontiers in Psychology found that individuals who use more complex sentence structures tend to perform better in uncertain decision-making scenarios—suggesting a link between linguistic sophistication and cognitive ability.In this infographic, we rank the 15 smartest CEOs in the U.S., based on linguistic analysis conducted by Preply.Data & MethodologyPreply’s...

Artificial circulatory system enables feat by delivering nutrients to growing tissue.[Researchers grew a single chunk of chicken in the laboratory that was about 7 centimetres long and 2 centimetres thick.Credit: Shoji Takeuchi, The University of Tokyo]Researchers have created what they think is the largest chunk of meat grown in the laboratory yet, thanks to a designer ‘circulatory system’ t...

Amsterdam-based studio VOUW introduces Bloomlight S, a responsive lighting object designed for domestic settings. The piece bends subtly and unfolds in response to nearby movement, creating a moment of interaction through presence, light, and motion, without requiring apps or interfaces. Rather than reacting to sound or voice commands, the object responds to proximity and gesture. When a person...