Nvidia has filed for a method that turns a long, bumpy phone video into a 3D scene you can view from angles the camera never saw, with no camera data supplied up front.Recorded clips of a walk turn into a walkable digital world by tracking how the camera moved through space.What Nvidia's phone-video-to-3D patent doesEver filmed a walk down a street on your phone and wished you could see the same scene from a spot where you never stood? That is the trick Nvidia's patent application is after: turning an ordinary, bumpy video into a 3D scene yo...

Wellness is disrupting dentistry.NYC-based preventative oral care company Wally raised $25M to scale its membership-based clinics from 15 to 100 locations over the next year.No cap. For $249/year, members receive unlimited exams, diagnostics, cleanings, and whitening. Ditching insurance, Wally delivers convenience and comfort with coworking-based clinics, AI-powered treatment planning, and Swiss AIRFLOW technology.Say aah. Reactive and invasive, only ~40% of US adults visit the dentist annually, despite more than 80% wanting more care. With...

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...