1. 일본 Not A Hotel과 Pokemon의 협력으로 탄생한 포켓몬 컨셉의 Pod 호텔포켓몬 슬립 연계 공간 기획: NOT A HOTEL과 Pokémon Sleep이 협력하여 홋카이도에 몬스터볼 형상의 휴식 및 수면 전용 호텔 공간 구축.숙면과 휴식 중심의 건축적 구현: 게임 속 몬스터볼이 포켓몬의 편안한 거처라는 점에 착안해, 인간 투숙객의 깊은 수면과 안정을 지원하는 자율형 쉼터 아키텍처 완성.캠페인 당첨자 한정 비공개 운영: 일반 대중 공개 방식 대신 사전 이벤트 캠페인 당첨자에 한해 추첨제로 투숙 기회를 제공하며, 상세 인테리어는 9월 15일 전격 공개.▷ Why It Matters: 수면 추적 앱(Pok...

NOT A HOTEL and ‘Pokémon Sleep’ Turn a Poké Ball Into a Place You Can Actually Sleep In.NOT A HOTEL and Pokémon Sleep have announced a collaboration centered on a Poké Ball-themed hotel in HokkaidoThe project reimagines the Poké Ball as a restful space for people, echoing the sleep-tracking game at its coreA campaign will give entrants the chance to stay in the one-off structure, with details due in mid-SeptemberNOT A HOTEL and Pokémon Sleep are joining forces on a Poké Ball you can spend the night inside. Set to appear in Hokkaido...

Asia's population is aging faster than any other region globally, exposing a severe structural imbalance between retirement anxiety and actual financial preparation. A report published in September 2026 by McKinsey & Company, titled Asia's 75-point gap: Moving consumers from retirement angst to action, reveals a 75-percentage-point gap between consumer awareness of retirement risks and concrete planning. Drawing on a survey of nearly 2,000 consumers across eight key Asia-Pacific markets—including Hong Kong, Japan, Mainland China, Malays...

Autonomous blood-drawing devices could help address phlebotomist shortages.Sitting down, placing an arm in a cradle, and pressing a single button sets a fully autonomous medical procedure in motion. A near-infrared light sweeps across the inner elbow searching for a viable vein, a puff of alcohol spray disinfects the skin, and an ultrasound probe glides across the arm to map vessel depth and trajectory while Doppler imaging captures blood flow direction to rule out underlying arteries. A cuff tightens around the upper arm, a needle pierces t...

With a raft of high-profile acquisitions, sponsors and strategics are looking at the segment with fresh interest. That’s making it harder to stand out, but smart brands are focussing on ownable niches.Driven by increasingly educated consumers, the body care market is shifting towards efficacy, value, and performance-led formulation.Major conglomerates like Beiersdorf and Unilever are well-positioned to expand and diversify their body care portfolios through strategic acquisitions beyond their established mass market brands.To achieve premiu...

A whale-shaped museum is taking form on the northern coast of Norway, with The Whale set to open in Andenes in June next year.Designed by Danish architecture studio Dorte Mandrup, the new knowledge and experience centre will use architecture, science, art and sound to explore whales and the oceans they inhabit.Its sweeping concrete roof rises from the rocky shoreline like a whale surfacing or diving, while remaining low enough to feel like part of the landscape.The roof is formed from a single curved concrete shell supported at three points,...

These companies are paying to use home servers.If you own a home server, gaming PC, or unused laptop, you can now rent out its spare computing power to AI companies and earn passive income. Several startups are building platforms that connect distributed computing resources with companies needing capacity for AI inference.“Imagine Uber or Airbnb, but for AI-inference computing tasks,” says Ilman Shazhaev, founder and CEO of Far Labs.The AI boom has driven massive investment in data centers, which can strain local electricity and water reso...

Soccer stars Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi are the two most-followed people on Instagram.Sixteen years after Instagram launched, its biggest personal accounts have audiences numbering in the hundreds of millions.This visualization ranks the 20 most-followed people on Instagram as of late August 2026, based on follower counts on the platform. Accounts belonging to brands have been excluded from this ranking.The Big Two of SoccerCristiano Ronaldo leads all individual accounts with 679 million followers, putting him 163 million ahead of Li...

More Than a Third of Workers Say They’re Hoarding Expertise Because They Fear Being Replaced by the AI Agents They’re Being Asked to Train.Is it any wonder? ‘This is like asking a turkey to vote for Christmas.’By Faisal HoqueThis spring, Meta told thousands of U.S. employees that software on their work computers would begin capturing mouse movements, clicks, and keystrokes. Meta needed this data, they said, to help train its AI agents on real examples of how people work.And it’s not just Meta that needs this kind of data. Any company tr...