Author Archives: Arielle Pardes

The timepiece displays the time by pulling its thermoelastic membrane into the cavities beneath the clock’s face. Continue reading The Etch Clock Makes the Time Appear Out of Nowhere→

Legacy toymakers like Disney, Lego, and Hasbro are all banking on AR to keep their toys relevant in 2018. Continue reading How Augmented Reality Is Shaping the Future of Play→

Today’s update makes the image-saving service an even more capable productivity tool. Continue reading Pinterest Now Lets You Reorder the Pins on Your Boards→

Every year, the governing body Unicode adds new emoji to the nearly 3,000 already in existence. Here’s how it picks the additions. Continue reading How New Emoji Get Added to Your Phone→

As sleep gadgets become more and more bizarre, the 25-pound Gravity Blanket offers an intuitive approach: Lie down, pull up the covers, and close your eyes. Continue reading The Weighted Gravity Blanket Won’t Cure All Your Sleep Woes→

Software developer Eugenia Kuyda is releasing the code to her Replika chatbot, which can inject emotion into conversations. Continue reading Replika, the Emotional Chatbot, Goes Open-Source→

If you don’t want your digital running group to know where you live, it might be time to revisit some of your app’s settings. Continue reading Fitness Apps Like Strava Erode Your Privacy. Here’s How to Protect It→

A new type of photochromic ink makes it possible to dynamically change the color of an object after it’s been printed using UV light. Continue reading MIT’s New ColorFab Process Recolors 3-D Printed Objects→

While Instagram and Facebook fine-tune their Stories features, Snapchat is moving some of its content beyond the app. Continue reading Snapchat Stories Can Now Live Outside the App→

Ralph Lauren has created a jacket to keep US Olympic athletes warm in the chilly South Korean winter—and soon, you too could own one. Continue reading Ralph Lauren’s Olympic Jacket Uses Heat-Conducting Ink→