Elvie, the company known for its popular wearable breast pump, is showing off a new piece of baby gear at CES. Called Rise, its an app-controlled baby bouncer that can transform into a bassinet with a baby inside. The $799 device is made for infants in the first few months of their lives. Elvie says the bouncer works for babies up to 20 lbs or 6 months old, while the bassinet is meant for babies up to 5 months or 22 lbs. While in bouncer mode, parents can customize the specific bounce pattern from the accompanying Elvie Rise Sleep & Soothe app. The company says its SootheLoop technology is meant to be a gentle motion thats more like the movement of a caregiver rather than a repetitive robotic movement. Theres also a manual mode for babies to bounce themselves as they grow a bit bigger and stronger. In its press release, Elvie says its own study found that two-thirds of babies between 0 and 3 months often sleep in non-safe products like bouncers or swings. The Rise is meant to address this as parents can switch from bouncer mode to bassinet mode without hopefully waking their child. Elvie The Rise is equipped with a "transition handle that allows parents to transition the device between modes. While in bouncer mode, this involves pushing on the bottom end, near the feet, and squeezing the handle to pull up the sides to form the walls of the bassinet. The straps from bouncer mode automatically retract to make it a surface suitable for sleeping. The company says its bassinet complies with the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP)s sleep safe guidelines, though babies should not be left in the bouncer unattended. The device is also meant to be more portable than the typical bassinet. It collapses for easier transport and has a magnetic charger so it can be used even when its not plugged in. The Elvie Rise is available now for pre-order. The company expects to begin shipping orders March 14, 2025. This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/home/smart-home/elvies-newest-product-is-a-smart-baby-bouncer-that-transforms-into-a-bassinet-111550670.html?src=rss

The Espresso 17 Pro is our favorite portable monitor. It delivers great image quality, has a rugged build, boasts built-in speakers and includes a touchscreen function. The only real trouble is that, with a 17-inch screen, it's perhaps not as truly portable as it could be.Enter the Espresso 15 Pro.As you might have guessed, the latest model has a 15-inch display. This is the second Pro-level portable monitor from Espresso Displays. The company already has a 15-inch non-touch version, but as the name implies, this one's geared toward professionals and business travelers who could do with more on-the-go screen real estate.The Espresso 15 Pro, which was unveiled at CES 2025, has a resolution of 4K and 1,500:1 contrast. It's said to display 1.07 billion colors with full coverage of the AdobeRGB color spectrum. The LCD panel is actually brighter than the 17-inch model at 550 nits versus the larger monitor's 450 nits of peak brightness. It also has two USB-C inputs. On the downside, the refresh rate is limited to 60Hz.Espresso DisplaysAlong with MacOS and Windows devices, the Espresso 15 Pro works with iPhones, iPads and DeX-enabled Samsung Galaxy devices. It's possible to use the Espresso Pen for notetaking on the touchscreen as well.Elsewhere, the Espresso 15 Pro will come with the brand's new Stand+. The monitor magnetically attaches to the Stand+, which supports landscape and portrait orientations.Pricing and availability for the Espresso 15 Pro has yet to be revealed, though it's slated to arrive in the coming months. Logic dictates that the price will fall somewhere in between the $299 Display 15 and $799 Espresso 17 Pro.This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/computing/the-espresso-15-pro-is-a-compact-version-of-our-favorite-portable-monitor-105237176.html?src=rss

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Hello and welcome to Modern CEO! Im Stephanie Mehta, CEO and chief content officer of Mansueto Ventures. Each week this newsletter explores inclusive approaches to leadership drawn from conversations with executives and entrepreneurs, and from the pages ofInc.andFast Company. If you received this newsletter from a friend, you cansign up to get it yourselfevery Monday morning.The new year is already well underway, but Modern CEO is taking one last look back. At the end of December we named E.l.f. Beautys Tarang Amin our inaugural Modern CEO of the Year, and we invited readers to nominate chief executives who embody the leadership values covered in this newsletter each week. Here are four more CEOs who earned your nods:Craig Dubitsky, founder and CEO, HappyIn early 2024, serial entrepreneur Dubitsky unveiled coffee company Happy using a formula hed applied to other businesses hed launched, such as skincare brand EOS and toothpaste maker Hello Products: He took a product that many people think of as a commodity and reimagined it. In Happys case, he not only freshened up the packaging of the product, he took a new approach to social impact, granting an equity stake in the company to the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI).But it is Dubitskys leadership style that prompted Happy marketing executive Damon Grimes to nominate his boss as a Modern CEO of the Year. Craigs approach to leadership is infectiously positive and remarkably different from anyone Ive worked with in my 27 years in the workforce, Grimes tells me. He is empathetic, listens, and makes us believe in ourselves and what we are trying to accomplish. Its impossible not to feel it and be inspired by him. Craigs positive leadership is the reason why I joined him at Happy and why so many others on the team have worked for him for over 12 years . . . since the EOS and Hello Products days.Thasunda Brown Duckett, president and CEO, TIAAAs CEO of retirement plan provider TIAA ($1.4 trillion in assets under management), Duckett is one of the most prominent executives in businessin 2024,Fortuneranked her 14thon its Most Powerful Women in Business list, up two spots from the prior year. Throughout her three-plus year tenure at TIAA, Duckett has advocated for greater financial inclusion for underrepresented investors, and more recently has encouraged women and people of color to learn artificial intelligence (AI) skills as a pathway to greater opportunity.To me, a modern CEO is someone who is extraordinarily capable at the work they do but also leads inclusively and stands for something authentically. Thats Thasunda to a tee, says Jana Rich, founder of executive recruiting firm Rich Talent Group. Not only has she broken barriers, such as becoming the first woman CEO of TIAA or being one of few Black women to lead a Fortune 500 company, she uses her position of power to do meaningful work like creating greater financial access for marginalized communities or speaking about diversity and inclusion to inspire others.Hala Hanna, executive director, MIT SolveWhile Hanna was emceeing the Solve Challenge Finals in New York last fallan event that brings together investors, philanthropists, and social impact innovatorsnews broke that Israel had launched airstrikes on Hezbollah in Lebanon. Hanna, who grew up in Lebanon, remained steadfast in her leadership, showed compassion for everyones experiences and an unflappable optimism for the future, Bridget Weiler, MIT Solves director of marketing and communications, writes in nominating Hanna for Modern CEO of the Year.MIT Solve, which was created by the universitys Office of the President in 2015, every year selects and supports Solver teams that use technology to address global challenges in areas such as climate, education, health, and economic prosperity. Under Hannas leadership, MIT Solve went through financial and organizational restructuring in 2024. Hanna lowered operating costs, in part by reducing spending on events and other non-core programmingmoves that advisers say will ensure the groups future. Halais a leader who is always focused on making the organization, herself, and society better, says Neela Montgomery, CEO of beauty conglomerate Orveon Global and an MIT Solve advisor. She has made tough choices that created a sustainable platform for MIT Solve and clarity for the organization. Her personal leadership during controversial global events such as the Middle East crisis has created a thoughtful dialogue and focus in Solves broader global community.Alyson Watson, founder and CEO, Modern HealthWatson founded the mental health platform Modern Health in 2017, long before the workplace began to expand and promote a broader range of employee benefits, including mental health care. Shes continued to find new ways to destigmatize mental wellness, through her writing (Watson contributes to Inc.com) and webinars. In 2024, Modern Health and Naomi Osakas media company, Hana Kuma, launched a podcast video series, Cant Wait to Hear from You, featuring high-profile guests sharing their mental health care strategies. The company also announced a move into physical wellness with a program that guides patients through specialized topics such as fitness goals, sleep, and healthy routines.Gyre Renwick, Modern Healths president and chief operating officer, praises Watson for leading with vulnerability and business savvy. (Modern Health ranked No. 728 on the Inc. 5000 list of the fastest-growing private companies in 2024, with 661% three-year growth.) In a world where mental health challenges are increasingly acute, my friend and colleague Alyson stands out as a CEO who combines innovation with inclusion, accessibility with excellence, and personal authenticity with powerful business results, Renwick says. Alyson is positively transforming workplaces both for the individuals and the businesses they serve.Tell us what youd like to see in 2025Looking ahead, what topics would you like to see Modern CEO cover in 2025? Would you like more management advice from successful corporate leaders or insights from edgier entrepreneurial companies and founders? Let me know how we can better serve you by dropping me a line at stephaniemehta@mansueto.com.Read more: the year aheadBig predictions for AI, from a CEO who got 2024 right8 designers on trends theyre excited to see in 20257 ways HR will look different in the new year9 food trend predictions for 2025

NASAs upcoming Artemis II mission is slated to return astronauts to the Moon no sooner than April 2026. Astronauts were last on the Moon in 1972 during the Apollo 17 mission.Artemis II will utilize NASAs Space Launch System, which is an extremely powerful rocket that will enable human space exploration beyond Earths atmosphere. The crew of four will travel in an Orion spacecraft, which the agency launched around the Moon and successfully returned during the Artemis I mission.But before Artemis II, NASA will send two missions to scout the surface of the lunar south pole for resources that could sustain human space travel and enable new scientific discoveries.Planetary geologists like me are interested in data from Lunar Trailblazer, one of these two scouting missions. The data from this mission will help us understand how water forms and behaves on rocky planets and moons.Starting with scientific explorationPRIME-1, or the Polar Resources Ice Mining Experiment, will be mounted on a lunar lander. Its scheduled for launch in January 2025.Aboard the lander are two instruments: the Regolith and Ice Drill for Exploring New Terrain, TRIDENT, and the Mass Spectrometer for Observing Lunar Operations, MSOLO. TRIDENT will dig down up to 3 feet (1 meter) and extract samples of lunar soil, and MSOLO will evaluate the soils chemical composition and water content.Joining the lunar mining experiment is Lunar Trailblazer, a satellite launching on the same Falcon 9 rocket.Think of this setup as a multimillion-dollar satellite Uber pool, or a rideshare where multiple missions share a rocket and minimize fuel usage while escaping Earths gravitational pull.Bethany Ehlmann, a planetary scientist, is the principal investigator of Lunar Trailblazer and is leading an operating team of scientists and students from Caltechs campus. Trailblazer is a NASA Small, Innovative Mission for PLanetary Exploration, or SIMPLEx.These missions intend to provide practical operations experience at a lower cost. Each SIMPLEx mission is capped at a budget of US$55 millionTrailblazer is slightly over budget at $80 million. Even over budget, this mission will cost around a quarter of a typical robotic mission from NASAs Discovery Program. Discovery Program missions typically cost around $300 million, with a maximum budget of $500 million.Building small but mighty satellitesDecades of research and development into small satellites, or SmallSats, opened the possibility for Trailblazer. SmallSats take highly specific measurements and complement data sourced from other instruments.Missions like NASAs TROPICS use a network of small satellites to take more data than one satellite would be able to do alone. [Illustration: NASA Applied Science]Multiple SmallSats working together in a constellation can take various measurements simultaneously for a high-resolution view of the Earths or Moons surface.SIMPLEx missions can use these SmallSats. Because theyre small and more affordable, they allow researchers to study questions that come with a higher technical risk. Lunar Trailblazer, for example, uses commercial off-the-shelf parts to keep the cost down.These low-cost, high-risk experimental missions may help geologists further understand the origin of the solar system, as well as what its made of and how it has changed over time. Lunar Trailblazer will focus specifically on mapping the Moon.A brief timeline of water discoveries on the MoonScientists have long been fascinated by the surface of our closest celestial neighbor, the Moon. As early as the mid-17th century, astronomers mischaracterized ancient volcanic eruptions as lunar mare, derived from the Latin word for seas.Nearly two centuries later, astronomer William Pickerings calculations suggested that the Moon had no atmosphere. This led him to conclude the Moon could not have water on its surface, as that water would vaporize.However, in the 1990s, NASAs Clementine mission detected water on the Moon. Clementine was the first mission to completely map the surface of the Moon, including the lunar poles. This data detected the presence of ice within permanently shadowed regions on the Moon in low resolution.Scientists first water detection prompted further exploration. NASA launched the Lunar Prospector in 1998 and the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter in 2009. The India Space Research Organization launched its Chandrayaan-1 mission with the Moon Mineralogy Mapper, M3, instrument in 2008. M3, although not designed to detected liquid water, unexpectedly did find it in sunlit areas on the Moon.These missions collectively provided maps showing how hydrous mineralsminerals containing water molecules in their chemical makeupand ice water are distributed on the lunar surface, particularly in the cold, dark, permanently shadowed regions.Novel mission, novel scienceBut how does the temperature and physical state of water on the Moon change from variations in sunlight and crater shadows?Lunar Trailblazer will host two instruments, the Lunar Thermal Mapper, LTM, and an evolution of the M3 instrument, the High-resolution Volatiles and Minerals Moon Mapper, HVM3.The LTM instrument will map surface temperature, while the HVM3 will measure how lunar rocks absorb light. These measurements will allow it to detect and distinguish between water in liquid and ice forms.In tandem, these instruments will provide thermal and chemical measurements of hydrous lunar rock. Theyll measure water during various times of the lunar day, which is about 29.5 Earth days, to try to show how the chemical composition of water varies depending on the time of day and where it is on the Moon.These results will tell researchers what phasesolid or liquidthe water is found in.Scientific significance and whats nextThere are three leading theories for where lunar water came from. It could be water thats been stored inside the Moon since its formation, in its mantle layer. Some geologic processes may have allowed it to slowly escape to the surface over time.Or, the water may have arrived on asteroids and comets that collided with the lunar surface. It may even have been created by interactions with the solar wind, which is a stream of particles that comes from the Sun.Lunar Trailblazer may shed light on these theories and help researchers make progress on several other big science questions, including how water behaves on rocky bodies like the Moon and whether future astronauts will be able to use it.Csar Len Jr. is a Ph.D. student of planetary geology at Washington University in St. Louis.This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article.

Every parent knows the profound relief of being able to park your newborn somewhere for a few minutes, so you can attend to your most basic needs, like showering or making a meal. Thats why theres a $3.4 billion global industry devoted to baby bouncer seats, which safely harness your child while creating a pleasant bouncing motion that infants love, because it reminds them of being in the womb. Bjorn Jakobson, who founded BabyBjrn, first invented a bouncer in 1961, creating a product that continues to be a best-seller for the brand.Over the years, other companies have tried to update the bouncer, but it has sometimes led to tragedy. Fisher-Price, for instance, created a seat with an electronic rocking motion and twirling mobile, but it has led to more than 100 infant deaths. The soothing bouncing motion often helps babies sleep, but can be dangerous because he or she can suffocate on the fabric in the headrest and seat pad. The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission has recalled several bouncers, and the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) warns that infants should only sleep on a firm, flat mattress.Today, Elviebest known for its hands-free breast pumpis launching a new $799 bouncer called the Rise that is designed to allow babies to safely sleep in it. At first glance, it looks like other bouncers on the market, allowing the baby to sit and be bounced. But if the baby falls asleep, it can be converted into a flat bassinet, for both nap-time and night-time sleep.According to Elvie, the Rise meets the U.S. safety guidelines for both bassinet and bouncer products. But its unclear whether parents will be willing to trust a new product, particularly given that previous bouncers have led to infant deaths. The price of the Rise could also be a sticking point. At $799, it is four times more expensive than premium bouncers on the market, such as the BabyBjorn bouncer, which is $210. Its an expensive purchase for a product that can only be used for the first six months of a babys life.[Photo: Elvie]Elvies parent-centric baby gearElvie launched 11 years ago with an innovative device that helps women strengthen their pelvic floor, which can weaken after childbirth. It was quickly embraced by Gwyneth Paltrow and others. Then, Elvie launched a hands-free breast pump that women can wear within their bra, allowing them to pump on the go. Aoife Zakaras-Nally, Elvies CMO, says the inspiration for the Rise came from conversations with women, particularly new mothers. Alongside feeding, sleep was the most problematic thing that moms and caregivers had to manage, she says.[Photo: Elvie]Many babies are soothed to sleep by bouncers. And it can be painful for caregivers to have to wake their infant, particularly if they are in desperate need of rest themselves. Elvie conducted a focus group with 1,413 U.S. moms with children under the age of 2 and found that 67% of babies aged 0 to 3 months routinely sleep in a products that is not deemed safe for sleeping.Zakaras-Nally says that Elvies marketing team brought these insights to the companys engineers and asked them to come up with a solution. We mapped out what our competitors are doing and asked what we could do that was different, she says.The final bouncer can go from a seated position to a flat one. In bouncer mode, it can bounce manually, as the baby moves its body, or it can bounce electronically. But if the baby falls asleep, it can lay flat, abiding by all safety requirements of a bassinet. This means ensuring the baby lies flat on their back in a firm surface that does not incline, and does not contain any soft objects that could risk suffocation or strangulation.The Elvie Rise is the latest in high-tech products designed to help babies to sleep. Perhaps the most famous one to date is the SNOO, a $1,695 bassinet that rocks the baby to sleep when it awakens and ultimately sleep trains the baby to make it easier to transition them to a crib. The SNOO is now the only medical device to receive authorization from the FDA to keep sleep babies safely on their back, lowering their risk of sudden death syndrome. This means it could soon be covered by insurance.While the SNOO has a cult following among well-heeled parents who tout its safety and how much more sleep they are able to get every night, well have to see whether the Rise is equally popular. The Rise is available to pre-order today on the Elvie website.