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...

1. (PDF) BCG의 2027 매출 아젠다 리포트 : 생산성 향상을 넘어 실질적 가치 입증으로2027년 CRO들의 공격적 투자와 실적 목표 상향: 글로벌 23개국 398명의 최고매출책임자(CRO) 조사 결과, 65%가 인력 증원, 72%가 영업 예산 확대를 계획 중이며 91%가 영업 인력당 쿼터(실적 요구치)를 상향 조정.AI 도입의 보편화 대비 미진한 상업적 성과: 기업의 90%가 영업 워크플로우에 AI를 적용 중이나 행정 업무 축소(33%)와 시간 절약(22%)에 집중되었을 뿐, 실제 계약 수주율(Win rate) 개선(13%)이나 전환율 상승(14%)은 극히 저조.고객의 선행 가치 입증 요구와 선도 기업의 에이전트 전환:...