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Tribeca is not your average office pedestal. Its a versatile, sustainable, and design-forward solution for modern workspaces, offering much more than simple storage. Designed with the needs of todays office professionals in mind, Tribeca combines form, function, and eco-consciousness into one standout piece of furniture.At its core, Tribeca provides the essential function of secure, lockable storage, but it takes it a step further with its magnetic whiteboard feature. This built-in whiteboard allows you to jot down reminders and deadlines, or brainstorm ideaskeeping everything you need at arms reach. No more cluttered desks or forgotten notes. With Tribeca, you can keep your thoughts organized and your workspace clear, helping you stay on track throughout the day.Designer: Lloren Poy VenturaBut Tribeca isnt just about storing things. Its detachable handle transforms into a basket, giving you a versatile tool for transporting files, office supplies, or personal items. Whether youre moving between meetings or tidying up your desk, this innovative design ensures that Tribeca adapts to your dynamic workflow.Designed for offices that value both individual productivity and team collaboration, Tribeca is built to integrate seamlessly into your workspace. Its compact design ensures that it doesnt take up valuable floor space, yet it offers ample storage for documents, personal items, and more. Whether in a private office or an open-plan space, Tribeca keeps your essentials within reach while maintaining a clean and professional appearance.Tribeca also enhances the acoustic quality of your workspace. The distinctive orange textile on top absorbs sound, helping to reduce noise in busy, open environments. This simple yet effective feature contributes to a quieter, more focused office, improving overall productivity.Sustainability is at the heart of Tribecas design. Made entirely from 100% recycled aluminum and 100% recyclable materials, Tribeca minimizes environmental impact without compromising on quality. When its life cycle ends, every part can be recycled, ensuring that the pedestals journey continues in an eco-friendly way.Available in seven colors International Orange, Yellow, Light Blue, Alpine Green, All-White, and Black, Tribeca adds a touch of personality to your office. Whether you want a bold, energizing hue or a more neutral tone, Tribeca is designed to fit your space and style.Tribeca isnt just a piece of furniture; its a solution that redefines how we think about office essentials. Stylish, functional, and sustainable, its the pedestal that works as hard as you do.The post The Ultimate Sustainable, Versatile, and Stylish Office Pedestal for Modern Workspaces first appeared on Yanko Design.

At CES 2025, smart home purveyor Govee showed off two new lights for the smart home with unique form factors and features that work natively with the Home app.Govee has plenty of new announcements for CES 2025Historically, Govee has shunned the Apple Home, even though it supported Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant. Fortunately, thanks to Matter, we now have support for its latest products.That includes its new AI-powered Pixel Light, Mini Panel Lights, and Table Lamp 2 Pro. All coming this year. Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums

Targus and Hyper continue to cater to Apple users, with the company debuting new gear at CES 2025 ranging from sleek tech backpacks to colorful hubs and adapters for a variety of applications.Targus and Hyper have lots of Mac and iPad accessories on display at CES 2025After being acquired by Targus in 2021, Hyper has continued its mission of creating capable and professional products for Apple users. CES 2025 shows that ideology is still strong. Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums

Moft, known for its origami-like stands, wallets, and accessories, is showing off its newly-announced iPhone wallet that features support for Apple Find My.The Moft wallet with Find My connects to the back of an iPhone via MagSafeThe list of Moft iPhone wallets continues to grow. The magnet-loving brand has a whole host of different accessories that connect via MagSafe from stands, to notepads, to wallets.This latest one is a modification of its well-loved wallet and integrates a battery pack and necessary electronics to support Apple Find My and Google Find My Device. Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums

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Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More2025 will be the year that big tech transitions from selling us more and more powerful tools to selling us more and more powerful abilities. The difference between a tool and an ability is subtle yet profound. We use tools as external artifacts that help us overcome our organic limitations. From cars and planes to phones and computers, tools greatly expand what we can accomplish as individuals, in large teams and as vast civilizations.Abilities are different.We experience abilities in the first person as self-embodied capabilities that feel internal and instantly accessible to our conscious minds. For example, language and mathematics are human created technologies that we load into our brains and carry around with us throughout our lives, expanding our abilities to think, create and collaborate. They are superpowers that feel so inherent to our existence that we rarely think of them as technologies at all. Fortunately, we dont need to buy a service plan.The next wave of superpowers, however, will not be free. But just like our abilities to think verbally and numerically, we will experience these powers as self-embodied capabilities that we carry around with us throughout our lives. I refer to this new technological discipline as augmented mentality and it will emerge from the convergence of AI, conversational computing and augmented reality. And, in 2025 it will kick off an arms race among the largest companies in the world to sell us superhuman abilities.These new superpowers will be unleashed by context-aware AI agents that are loaded into body-worn devices (like AI glasses) that travel with us throughout our lives, seeing what we see, hearing what we hear, experiencing what we experience and providing us with enhanced abilities to perceive and interpret our world. In fact, by 2030, I predict that a majority of us will live our lives with the aid of context-aware AI agents that bring digital superpowers into our normal daily experiences.How will our super human future unfold?First and foremost, we will whisper to these intelligent agents, and they will whisper back, acting like an omniscient alter ego that gives us context-aware recommendations, knowledge, guidance, advice, spatial reminders, directional cues, haptic nudges and other verbal and perceptual content that will coach us through our days and educate us about our world.Consider this simple scenario: You are walking downtown and spot a store across the street. You wonder, what time does it open? So, you grab your phone and type (or say) the name of the store. You quickly find the hours on a website and maybe review other info about the store as well. That is the basic tool-use computing model prevalent today.Now, lets look at how big tech will transition to an ability computing model. Stage 1: You are wearing AI-powered glasses that can see what you see, hear what you hear and process your surroundings through a multimodal large language model (LLM).Now when you spot that store across the street, you simply whisper to yourself, I wonder when it opens? and a voice will instantly ring back into your ears 10:30 AM.I know this is a subtle shift from asking your phone to look up the name of a store, but it will feel profound. The reason is that the context-aware AI agent will share your reality. Its not just tracking your location like GPS, it is seeing, hearing and paying attention to what you are paying attention to. This will make it feel far less like a tool, and far more like an internal ability that is linked to your first-person reality.And when we are asked a question by the AI-powered alter ego in our ears, we will often answer by just nodding our heads to affirm (detected by sensors in the glasses) or shaking our heads to reject. It will feel so natural and seamless, we might not even consciously realize we replied.Stage 2: By 2030, we will not need to whisper to the AI agents traveling with us through our lives. Instead, we will be able to simply mouth the words, and the AI will know what we are saying by reading our lips and detecting activation signals from our muscles. I am confident that mouthing will be deployed, as its more private, more resilient in noisy spaces, and most importantly, it will feel more personal, internal and self-embodied.Stage 3: By 2035, you may not even need to mouth the words. Thats because the AI will learn to interpret the signals in our muscles with such subtlety and precision, we will simply need to think about mouthing words to convey our intent. We will be able to focus our attention on any item or activity in our world and think something, and useful information will ring back from our AI glasses like an all-knowing voice in our heads.Of course, the capabilities will go far beyond just wondering about things around you. Thats because the onboard AI that shares your first-person reality will learn to anticipate the information you desire before you even ask for it. For example, when a coworker approaches from down the hall and you cant quite remember his name, the AI will sense your unease, and a voice will ring: Gregg from engineering.Or when you pick up a can of soup in a store and are curious about the carbs or wonder if its cheaper at Walmart, the answers will just ring in your ears or appear visually. It will even give you superhuman abilities to assess the emotions on other peoples faces, predict their moods, goals or intentions, and coach you during real-time conversations to make you more compelling, appealing or persuasive (see this fun video example).I know some people will be skeptical about the level of adoption I predict above and the rapid time frame, but I dont make these claims lightly. Ive spent much of my career working on technologies that augment and expand human abilities, and I can say that without question, the mobile computing market is about to run in this direction in a very big way.Over the last 12 months, two of the most influential and innovative companies in the world, Meta and Google, revealed their intentions to give us self-embodied superpowers. Meta made the first big move by adding a context-aware AI to their Ray-Ban glasses and by showing off their Orion mixed reality prototype that adds impressive visual capabilities. Meta is now very well positioned to leverage their big investments in AI and extended reality (XR) and become a major player in the mobile computing market, and they will likely do it by selling us superpowers we cant resist.Not to be outdone, Google recently announced Android XR, a new AI-powered operating system for augmenting our world with seamless context-aware content. They also announced a partnership with Samsung to bring new glasses and headsets to market. With more than 70% market-share for mobile operating systems and an increasingly strong AI presence with Gemini, I believe that Google is well-positioned to be the leading provider of technology-enabled human superpowers within the next few years.Of course, we need to consider the risksTo quote the famous 1962 Spiderman comic, with great power comes great responsibility. This wisdom is literally about superpowers. The difference is that the great responsibility will not fall on the consumers who purchase these techno-powers, but on the companies that provide them and the regulators that oversee them.After all, when wearing AI-powered augmented reality (AR) eyewear, each of us could find ourselves in a new reality where technologies controlled by third parties can selectively alter what we see and hear, while AI-powered voices whisper in our ears with advice, information and guidance. While the intentions are positive, even magical, the potential for abuse is just as profound.To avoid the dystopian outcomes, my primary recommendation to both consumers and manufacturers is to adopt a subscription business model. If the arms race for selling superpowers is driven by which company can provide the most amazing new abilities for a reasonable monthly fee we will all benefit. If instead, the business model becomes a competition to monetize superpowers by delivering the most effective targeted influence into our eyes and ears throughout our daily lives, consumers could easily be manipulated with precision and pervasiveness that we have never before faced.Ultimately, these superpowers wont feel optional. After all, not having them could put us at a cognitive disadvantage. It is now up to the industry and regulators to ensure that we roll out these new abilities in a way that is not intrusive, manipulative or dangerous. I am confident this can be a magical new direction for computing, but it requires careful planning and oversight.Louis Rosenberg founded Immersion Corp, Outland Research and Unanimous AI, and authored Our Next Reality.DataDecisionMakersWelcome to the VentureBeat community!DataDecisionMakers is where experts, including the technical people doing data work, can share data-related insights and innovation.If you want to read about cutting-edge ideas and up-to-date information, best practices, and the future of data and data tech, join us at DataDecisionMakers.You might even considercontributing an articleof your own!Read More From DataDecisionMakers

Govee is launching a new pixel light grid that can display art, animations, and live data. The Gaming Pixel Light lets you upload your own images and GIFs to display or choose from 150 different data sources, letting it provide live updates on the weather, Bitcoin prices, NBA scores, and more.You can also sync the display to games youre playing by hooking it up to Govees HDMI sync box or play 8-bit tunes that sync to the pixel grid using the built-in speaker. Naturally, theres an AI component as well an accompanying app can generate new pixel art for you using Govees AI Lighting Bot. You can generate pixel art with Govees AI Lighting Bot. Image: GoveeThe Gaming Pixel Light is compatible with Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant. You can wall-mount the screen or place it atop a table or desk, making it seem like a neat little addition to a gaming room or office.Along with this pixel light, Govee is announcing the Table Lamp 2 Pro an LED-packed tabletop lamp with a 2.5-inch JBL speaker that syncs up lighting with your music. The portable device has 210 independently controlled LED beads and 600 lumens of brightness. When its not synced with your music, you can customize the lighting yourself or choose from 100 preset scenes.The Table Lamp 2 Pro comes with a 2.5-inch JBL speaker. Image: GoveeThe lamp works with Matter, Google Assistant, and Alexa and comes with a rechargeable battery. You can also link two lamps together for a full stereo surround experience. Govee says it will release the Gaming Pixel Light and the Table Lamp 2 Pro in the second quarter of 2025, but it didnt provide any pricing information.

The HyperSpace Trackpad Pro is a Magic Trackpad for WindowsThe HyperSpace Trackpad Pro is a Magic Trackpad for Windows / The trackpad comes with software that will let users set custom shortcuts and gestures, including app-specific ones, and share them with others.By Sheena Vasani, a writer covering commerce, e-readers, and tech news. She previously wrote about everything from web development to AI at Inside. Jan 5, 2025, 11:00 PM UTCShare this storyTargus-owned Hyper introduced the HyperSpace Trackpad Pro, a premium haptic trackpad for Windows, on Sunday. The company plans to add basic compatibility with macOS via a firmware update later this year.Like the Magic Trackpad does on a Mac and other precision trackpads do on Windows laptops, the wireless HyperSpace Trackpad Pro supports multitouch gestures. However, Hypers trackpad software grants Windows users an advanced level of customizability, with the ability to set up shortcutsin the trackpads corners. That includes general functions like copying and pasting but also specific actions within apps like Adobe Suite, Figma, Microsoft Excel, and Microsoft PowerPoint. For instance, users could customize the trackpads bottom-right corner so clicking on it will add a new slide in PowerPoint. Users can also create and assign their own gestures instead, assigning in Hypers example a two-finger deep click to enter presentation mode in PowerPoint. Hyper also lets users adjust the haptic feedback and pressure sensitivity, tweak the click force, and create customizable sound modes. After theyre done, they can share these custom configurations or discover others via the Hyper Learning Cloud community.The trackpad has other things going for it beyond customizability. Hyper says it has independent force detection for up to 10 fingers as opposed to Apples four. It also features a 240Hz report rate, which should allowfor high responsiveness and extremely smooth tracking. Finally, the trackpad can support multiple devices and comes with detachable magnetic palm rests.The HyperSpace Trackpad Pro will arrive in the second quarter of 2025 and cost $129.99, the same as Apples Magic Trackpad. Most PopularMost Popular

Amazon Prime Video has licensed a documentary about Melania Trump that will be directed by Rush Hour director Brett Ratner, reports Variety. A Prime Video spokesperson told the outlet that the movie will be an unprecedented, behind-the-scenes look at the first lady. The news comes after Amazon founder Jeff Bezos had dinner with Donald Trump, who was heavily critical of the company during his first term. It also follows the decision by Bezos and Amazon to donate $1 million to Trumps inauguration fund, just as other tech CEOs like Apples Tim Cook and OpenAIs Sam Altman have done. Prime Video is also set to livestream Trumps inauguration.RelatedThe film is the first significant Hollywood project that Ratner has taken on since 2017, when several women accused him of sexual misconduct and another of rape, Variety notes. He denied the allegations but parted ways with Warner Bros. Ratner has some notable ties to the Trumps, including a former partnership with Donald Trumps Treasury Secretary, Steven Mnuchin. He also filmed 2011s Tower Heist largely on-location at Trump International Hotel & Tower and has reportedly run in Mar-a-Lago social circles since his departure from Hollywood life.Amazons Melania Trump documentary has already begun filming and the company plans to give it theatrical and streaming releases starting in the second half of this year, Variety writes.