• If this Xiaomi 15 Ultra camera rumor is true, it could rival the Galaxy S25 Ultra
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    A new rumor suggests the Xiaomi 15 Ultra will come equipped with one of the most powerful camera systems ever fitted to a smartphone, which could give some of our favorite camera phones a serious run for their money.
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  • Uber opens 'interest list' for Waymo robotaxi rides in Austin
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    Uber and Waymo beat Tesla to the punch offering robotaxi rides in Austin, Texas
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  • Why this cybersecurity startup wants to watermark everything
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    Cybersecurity startup EchoMark is releasing a new application programming interface (API) to allow for its novel digital watermarking tool to integrate with virtually any existing communications software.Founded in 2022 to develop a digital watermarking system to safeguard organizations sensitive and proprietary information, EchoMark originally focused on injecting personalized identifiers into emails and link-based networked document sharing tools. Now, armed with $10 million in seed funding, the company is on a mission to watermark the world, as founder and CEO Troy Batterberry puts it.Our vision is that any piece of private information can be forensically watermarked and tied to a recipients identity, Batterberry tells Fast Company, adding that the companys customers asked for a way to integrate the software directly into their own bespoke communications channels. We built this API so we can add this into any commercial application or custom workflow.Batterberry has been thinking about leaks for a long time. As a young missile systems engineer conducting research and development on new weapons for the U.S. Navy, Batterberry found himself personally entrusted with deeply classified stuff, responsible for constantly adding his signature to paper copies of sensitive documents to signal his role as their authorized guardian.Signing your name on the top of a document indicates youre the custodian of that information, he says. Psychologically, it changes how you think about protecting that information. If you leave it out, you could lose your security clearanceor, even worse, your entire profession.Following his career in the Navy, Batterberry went into the private sector as an engineer, first at Sony and then Microsoft, where he spent the next 25 years and eventually became a corporate VP in charge of Teams and Webinars. It was at Microsoft that Batterberry developed a digital rights management system to protect streaming media via audio and visual watermarks. Such safeguards ensured that, should content make its way to illegal streaming portals like BitTorrent, the source of the leak would be easily identifiable.Those experiences eventually coalesced in Batterberrys brain into a pressing organizational question that formed the basis for EchoMark: What if you could take personalized watermarking and apply it to anything, from emails and images to healthcare records and legal documents?EchoMarks watermarking solution is elegant in its simplicity. When a sensitive document is distributed to its intended recipient, the companys software generates personalized copies with thousands of slight formatting differences imperceptible to the human eye. Once that document makes its way out into the wild, whether as a photocopy, screenshot, or even as a photograph taken from a personal cell phone, users can employ EchoMarks proprietary computer vision and AI to scan the target artifact and match it against the original copies. Rather than physically sign copies, as Batterberry did in the Navy, EchoMark applies personalized signatures at scale with lightning efficiency so that leaks are easily traceable back to the source.Batterberry demonstrated the software for Fast Company in real time with a copy of Dobbs v. Jackson Womens Health Organization, the U.S. Supreme Court decision striking down Roe v. Wade that leaked to Politico in May 2022 (the source of the leak was never identified). Batterberry sent an email containing a PDF of the Dobbs decision processed through EchoMark to seven phony email addresses standing in for those of the sitting Supreme Court justices; he then opened the document from the fake account of Chief Justice John Roberts and took a photo of it on his computer screen with his personal phone. After uploading the photo to EchoMark, the software dashboard quickly analyzed the image and spit out a definitive conclusion: The document pictured in his photo was in fact identical to the one the Roberts account had received.Whoever leaked the [Dobbs] decision knew that as long as they used a personal device, they would never get caught because multiple people had access to the report, Batterberry says. With EchoMark turned on, we could have IDd the source of that leak in minutes.The Supreme Court is just one example of EchoMarks potential governmental applications. Batterberry cites as other disclosures where EchoMarks software may have proven useful the rogue IRS contractor who in 2020 leaked President Donald Trumps tax records to news organizations, as well as Airman 1st Class Jack Teixeira, the Massachusetts Air National Guardsman who leaked hundreds of classified Defense Department files onto Discord in 2023.EchoMark currently boasts more than a hundred high respected clients across the government, financial services, health care, and entertainment sectors, according to Batterberry, with the company projecting 10-time growth in the coming year among.The federal government is extremely interested, Batterberry says. The FBI, for example, has grave concerns about leaks when investigating drug cartels who are willing to spend serious money to get access to information and adapt accordingly.EchoMarks forensic watermarking isnt just about identifying leakers as part of a breach investigation, but prevention as well, so far that the presence of digital identifiers will purportedly dissuade potential leakers from releasing sensitive information into the wild if they know theyll be almost instantly identified. And by empowering organizations with a low-cost, easy-to-implement method for investigating and mitigating leaks, EchoMark serves a larger purpose: helping organizations share information openly and with confidence rather than close themselves off internally to stamp out leakers.Indeed, Batterberry cites the September 11, 2001, terror attacks as an example of what happens when sensitive information isnt allowed to flow freely between intelligence and law enforcement agencies.A key reason for the breakdown in communication leading up to the 9/11 attacks was that government agencies failed to share information they needed to share with each other, Batterbery says. Communication is the lifeblood of any organization.
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  • The AI boom has an unexpected winner: Architects
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    For all the industries that are facing existential crises from the emergence of artificial intelligence, one is seeing a happily profitable outcome. Architects are increasingly being commissioned to design the brick-and-mortar infrastructure supporting the AI boom. These data centersbig warehouse-like buildings stuffed with whirring servers sucking up hundreds of megawatts of powerare becoming a major, and majorly lucrative, part of the architecture industrys bottom line.Weve got about 200 people working strictly on data center projects, says Joy Hughes, a design manager at the architecture and design firm Gensler. Its a subset of the architecture business that has surged in recent years. During the Covid pandemic, the demand for cloud-based online services from Zoom calls to streaming movies caused a spike in data center construction. Now were seeing another jump in growth because of AI and machine learning coming on board, Hughes says. Gensler, which has more than 6,000 employees in 57 offices worldwide, has seen its data center business skyrocket. The practice area is up 87% year over year from 2023, and the firm is projecting a growth of 40% for 2025.Gensler is not alone. Many other architecture firms, both big and small, are seeing data center work drive significant revenues. More than a dozen firms pulled in $1 million or more in data center revenue in 2023, according to Building Design + Constructions annual list of architecture firm revenue. Ten firms earned more than $20 million in data center-related revenue in 2023. Third-ranked Genslers take was more than $69 million; Corgan, at the top of the list, raked in $135 million. Gabe Clark, data centers sector leader for Corgan, says the firm has been designing data centers for more than 15 years and anticipates year-over-year growth for at least the next five years. We started executing one megawatt builds. Were now designing now one gigawatt campuses, he says. Theres truly exponential growth in the marketplace, both in advancement of what data center design is and clearly in the need and the demand. And we dont see that slowing down anytime soon.The story behind these staggering figures is a simple one of demand. A recent report from McKinsey estimates that global demand for data center capacity could rise at an annual rate of between 19 and 22% through 2030. For architecture firms, thats a steady pipeline of new projects for years to come. Under construction data centers are expected to reach record highs in 2025. Demand for modern data center facilities continues to soar, says Gordon Dolven, director of Americas data center research at the commercial real estate advisory CBRE.Databank Atlanta [Photo: courtesy of Gensler]Data center design evolvesThis boom is opening up new avenues for design. Its an unexpected evolution for a very utilitarian building typology, which usually consists of a big warehouse with a few offices tucked in a corner and the majority of the space filled with precise rows of server racks. Genslers Hughes, who started her career with the firm doing IT work, has spent a lot of time in data centers and knows that their design is rarely the first priority. When I walked into my first data center, there were no windows. You are walking into a concrete box, she says. A big gray box, sitting out in a corn field or a potato field or whatever. It wasnt even painted. It was very, very nebulous.But this is beginning to change, for reasons ranging from location to environmental concern to the availability of power. Hughes says some of Genslers large data center projects are being developed in a wide range of places, including the remote greenfields of the past as well as more suburban areas closer to end users. These data centers, often covering hundreds of acres, are becoming a bit more sensitive to their surroundings. Hughes says Genslers designers are adding public-facing amenities to them, like hiking trails and open spaces, to soften their edges and reduce the negative visual impact on communities. This is especially relevant for those data centers with their own power supplies, which often require large industrial infrastructure, substations, and power lines that can take up significant amounts of land. Well probably start to see a lot more of that as on-site generation starts to take shape here in the U.S., especially in some of those more suburban and urban locations where were seeing some of these pop up, she says.Databank Atlanta [Photo: courtesy of Gensler]Some data centers are even being built right within the footprint of existing office complexes. Gensler completed a project in midtown Atlanta in 2019 thats nestled in a mixed use commercial development at Georgia Tech, providing data hall space for the university as well as leasable data center facilities for private sector clients such as the aerospace, security, and defense companies located in the area. These types of data centers tend to be smaller, more compact, so they can fit within an office building, they can fit within an urban space, Hughes says.Comarch [Photo: courtesy of Gensler]The overall look of data centers is also undergoing a change. One Gensler-designed project for the IT company Comarch is located in Mesa, Arizona, and the 50,000-square-foot building was designed to include a welcoming front-of-house area for the centers staff, with lounge seating and informal meeting areas drenched in daylight. You have floor-to-ceiling glass, you have all of this natural light, and you have all of these views out into the desert, she says. We design these buildings for computers, but we have to remember that even though theres not a lot of people in them, there are still people in them. We still have to design for those people.Environmental concerns are also affecting the way data centers are designed. Clark says Corgans wide range of data center projects are becoming increasingly focused on reducing not only their surging operational energy consumption but also the environmental footprint of the buildings themselves. Lower carbon materials, like mass timber, are becoming more common, as is insulation that allows for the buildings to be cooled more efficiently. We have seen tremendously more opportunities over the last five years to work with clients to enhance their building image, both purely aesthetically, but also from a sustainability perspective, Clark says. Theres also a lot of eyes on data centers out in the world these days and knowing that these facilities are being built and powered in the most sustainable way possible is becoming more and more critical to our clients.This kind of design thinking is also happening at a more abstract level. Goodman Group, a global data center operator recently announced a partnership with Oxman, designer Neri Oxmans interdisciplinary innovation lab, to reinvent its building practices. The partnership is focused on developing practices that maximize the ecological presence and utility of the built environment.Microsoft [Photo: courtesy of Gensler]Land and powerWith such high demand for data centers, some of these concerns are pushed aside. Many data center developers and hyperscaler data center owner-operators like Microsoft, Google, and Amazon Web Services cant build data centers fast enough. Data center operators are willing to pay a pretty penny to get these up to meet demand, so getting them up quickly is really important, says Jennie Karnes, a vice president in the Data Center Solutions group at CBRE. Access to power is the primary parameter guiding the location, size, and design of data centers, according to Karnes, and thats led to a variety of approaches. Some operators are buying up sites that can easily latch into the electricity grid, while others are building facilities that have their own substations and power sources, including solar arrays, wind turbines, and natural gas. Some are being considered for construction on the sites of shuttered coal power plants, and others are looking at getting permitted for nuclear small module reactors.Karnes says that even though the power demands of data centers are growingmany are being designed to accommodate hundreds of megawatts of demand per hourthe size of the actual data halls in these facilities is remaining relatively stable. New chips, graphics processing units (GPUs), and improved cooling techniques means that the cabinets of servers inside a data center can operate at much higher power densities. The same cabinet that used to take five kilowatts of power, now were looking at designing it to support 100 to 250 kilowatts of power. So 20 to 50 times what we saw five years ago, Karnes says. Thats leading some data center racks to grow in height, raising ceilings in new builds to upwards of 16 feet.AI is driving much of this increased energy demand. And the higher the power density of a server rack, the more cooling it requires. Clark says that the AI boom is leading data center developers to integrate new approaches for cooling, and that additional mechanical equipment means data center facilities are requiring more space than in the recent past. Clark says data centers built primarily to support cloud services just a few years ago could often fit all of this attendant mechanical equipment on their roofs. Now, with AI in the mix, data centers have to have additional square footage outside the building. All of the mechanical and electrical infrastructure to support that same footprint of data module or data hall has now, in some cases, doubled, Clark says.Some of the concern around electricity demand may be tempered by the recent release of DeepSeek, a Chinese AI startup that built state-of-the-art model using a midrange type of computer chip. Because these chips can run using less energy, some have questioned whether data center energy demand will remain so high. But given the growth of AI, more efficient chip utilization isnt likely to cause the size of data centers to go down, nor to reduce the demand for new facilities. Big boxes will still be built out in empty fields, and many are under construction now. Stargate, a joint venture between SoftBank, OpenAI, and Oracle, plans to feed AIs demand by building up to $500 billion worth of large data centers in the coming years. One of Stargates first announced data center projects is a 1.2-gigawatt facility being built on more than 1,100 acres in Abilene, Texas.In terms of the form and size of data center designs, theres no real model to follow. If you look back even four years ago when everything was cloud-based, the market had kind of gelled around a program, Clark says. Generally, they were pretty homogeneous at the end of the day. Whats going on in the world now in regard to designing around AI, its a little bit of the Wild West. Everybodys still trying to find what is the best approach.[Photo: courtesy Lonestar Data Holdings]To the moonSome are looking far beyond the Wild West. Lonestar Data Holdings is a backup data storage provider that has developed a novel type of extraterritorial data center that are designed to operate beyond the surface of the earth. Its newest data center is the Future Payload, a solar-powered eight terabyte data backup device that will be part of a lunar lander mission launching from NASAs Kennedy Space Center in late February. Lonestar calls it the first data center to be sent to space. More prototype than product, it is designed to operate from the surface of the moon for a single lunar day, just 14 days here on Earth.Even this niche of the data center business is proving to be a boon to the architecture industry. Lonestar commissioned the architecture firm Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) to design the data center. The device, which measures just 10 by 7 inches will be attached to the side of Athena, a lander developed by Intuitive Machines through NASAs Commercial Lunar Payload Services initiative. A thin 3D printed device, it was designed to cast shadows of the silhouettes of the faces of two NASA astronauts as the sun passes overhead. BIG designs the future I want to live in. The future I thought Id be living in. The future were working to build, Lonestar CEO Chris Stott tells Fast Company by email. The Freedom Payload is meant to be a symbol for all of humanity, a beacon of hope to the world as we strive towards that better future.Compared to terrestrial data centers that can stretch across hundreds of acres and draw hundreds of megawatts of electricity around the clock, this lunar data center is a proof of concept both quaint and complex. But just like its counterparts whirring away on earth, the data center that could soon be running on the moon is the result of a significant amount of design and consideration. As we prepare to return to the Moon to stay, it is important that everything we do these coming years of lunar settlement is done with intention and care, says Bjarke Ingels, BIG founder and creative director. Even if modest in scale, this data center is one of very few artifacts designed to remain part of the lunar landscape for years to come.
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  • Studio Merlin adds extension with wildflower meadow roof to London home
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    British architecture practice Studio Merlin has updated Hoj House, a Victorian home in Stoke Newington, with a wildflower-topped extension that draws on Scandinavian design.Named after the Danish word for high, Hoj House occupies the end of a 19th-century terrace characterised by four-storey tall dwellings with narrow gardens at the rear.Studio Merlin's extension expands the home's lower ground floor into the garden with a "deeply functional yet deliberately playful" open-plan kitchen and dining area that aims to encourage indoor-outdoor living.Studio Merlin has added an extension to a Victorian house in London"Our clients wanted a flexible space that would allow a seamless flow of activity from outside to inside, particularly during the summer for family gatherings," founder Josh Piddock told Dezeen.The broad low-lying extension, composed of neutral-toned concrete blocks, deliberately contrasts with the honey-coloured London stock brick of the original house and boundary walls."The material palette was deliberately neutral in order to draw attention to the natural elements and provide a balanced and warm minimalist aesthetic," explained Piddock.The extension is topped with a wildflower meadowTaking cues from Scandinavian design, timber features heavily throughout the design and is predominately left with a natural finish. This includes pink- and yellow-toned Douglas fir in the kitchen.A pivoting glass door framed by natural Red Grandis timber grants access to a concrete patio flanked by a planter, which steps up to a small lawn.It is formed of pale concrete blocksAdjoining the extension's exterior wall, beneath a large window, is a minimalist bench that matches the masonry blocks of the extension."A dedicated spot for morning coffee and fresh air has been achieved, which embeds gardening activities directly into the architectural form of the building," said Piddock.The extension contains an open-plan kitchen and dining areaTo help the extension integrate further with the garden, it features a polished concrete floor that references the patio. This was key to creating the feel of a "dining room in a garden", which the studio said was one of the client's main requests.The structure is crowned by a wildflower meadow, punctured by two large frameless skylights that draw natural light into the dining area below. It is supported by Douglas fir rafters that are left exposed as a feature.This wildflower roof is designed to slow rainwater run-off and mitigate flooding, as the house is located in one of the borough's Critical Drainage Sites.Read: VATRAA celebrates "as found" details in London home renovation"The main challenge with the project was making both the deep wildflower, insulated roof and the exposed timber structure work within the height restrictions imposed by the planning department," said Piddock.This was overcome through the implementation of a gentle pitched roof, instead of a flat roof, to create additional height in the space.Roof openings draw daylight into the spaceBehind the kitchen on the street side elevation is a spare bedroom, ensuite bathroom and utility room to accommodate visiting friends and family.With the extension designed to "minimise impact to the existing building", the upper floors remain largely unchanged.The kitchen units are made of woodUpdates include a revamp of the family bathroom, where Studio Merlin has introduced stone flooring and warm plaster walls.Elsewhere, refurbished oak floorboards and a stripped-back staircase and balustrade offer visual continuity with the extension and the pastel colour palette of the furniture and ceilings throughout.Wood is used throughout the home, including on its staircase"The family bathroom, located on the second floor behind the master bedroom, has been completely replaced with a minimal Pastellone plaster wall finish and warm stone floor," said Piddock."This offers a spacious and calm bathroom with an open wetroom-style shower, freestanding bathtub and separate washbasins," he added."The interventions at Hoj House are deeply functional yet deliberately playful," concluded Piddock. "Throughout the architecture we tried to create opportunities for stories just ask the fox who camps out on the wildflower roof."The family bathroom has been updated with stone and plasterElsewhere in London, Studio Merlin also recently transformed its founder's flat with a "spectrum of storage".Also in the capital city, OEB Architects recently completed a colourful loft extension informed by Italian palazzos and paintings and Office S&M extended a house in Hackney that caters to "both human and feline residents".The photography is by Richard Chivers.Project credits:Architect and interiors: Studio MerlinEngineer: Corbett & Tasker and Whitby WoodCivil engineer: TJ InfrastructureThe post Studio Merlin adds extension with wildflower meadow roof to London home appeared first on Dezeen.
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  • Eight unusual skyscrapers set to transform the skyline of Tirana
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    A map of Albania, the face of the country's national hero and a house-covered facade are among the defining features of these eight skyscrapers currently under development in Tirana.Tirana is undergoing a wave of development, with numerous international studios including MVRDV, Stefano Boeri and OODA creating high-profile, high-rise buildings in the city.Here we round up seven of the most intriguing, which are set to transform the Albanian capital's skyline:Image courtesy of MVRDVSkanderbeg Building by MVRDVNearing completion alongside the city's central square, the Skanderbeg Building will double as a "figurative sculpture" of Gjergj Kastrioti a military commander known locally as Skanderbeg who revolted against the Ottoman Empire in the 15th century.Dutch studio MVRDV, which renovated the nearby Pyramid of Tirana, designed the 85-metre-tall Skanderbeg Building to become a distinctive landmark for the city."These days, cities around the world increasingly look like each other I always encourage them to resist this, to find their individual character and emphasise it," said MVRDV founding partner Winy Maas."To me, the Skanderbeg Building is an opportunity to do just that. It brings new meaning to existing elements of Albanian architecture."Find out more about Skanderbeg BuildingImage by PlompHora Vertikale by OODAMade up of 13 staggered cubic volumes, the Hora Vertikale residential development is being designed by Portuguese studioOODA.Each of the cubes, which will measure 22.5 metres by 22.5 metres, will contain seven floors of apartments. The building will be 140 metres high once complete."Each cube embodies a unique concept related to art and is also inspired by the local vernacular," said OODA. "The result is a building that leaves a lasting impact on both city visitors and those who live there."Find out more about Hora Vertikale Image by PlompBond Tower by OODAArchitecture studioOODA is also designing two connected skyscrapers that bend away and towards each other on Dritan Hoxha Avenue in the west of the city.Named Bond Tower, the pair of skyscrapers is informed by the silhouette of a ballet dancer's bent knees when performing the pli position."Characterised by two interconnected volumes of different heights that meet in a pli in the urban landscape, creating a silhouette reminiscent of the grace of ballet, the interplay of these forms avoids the creation of a massive urban volume, giving the building an elegant and iconic presence," saidOODA.When complete, the buildings will contain residential, commercial, office and hotel spaces.Find out more about Bond Tower Downtown One Tirana by MVRDVAnother building on the list designed by MVRDV is Downtown One Tirana, which will be the tallest building in the country when it opens later this year.The 150-metre-tall building, which is largely complete, is also located near the Pyramid of Tirana. Its defining feature will be a pixelated facade intended to look like a "map" of Albania."Albania has come a long way," said Maas. "Ten years ago it was the poorest country in Europe. Now it is a country with energy and ambition, working towards great economic improvements," he continued."We want to express this with our building."Find out more about Downtown One Tirana Image courtesy of Archive OlgiatiRruga Adem Jashari by Valerio OlgiatiSet to overtake eventually Downtown One Tirana as the country's tallest building, the Rruga Adem Jashari development in central Tirana consists of three towers designed to look like "totemic figures".Designed by Swiss architect Valerio Olgiati, they will measure 150 metres, 192 metres and 266 metres in height and contain a mix of hotel rooms and apartments.Find out more about Rruga Adem Jashari Image by by NOA and Atelier4Puzzle Tirana by Network of Architectureand Atelier4Architecture studios Network of Architecture and Atelier4 designed the 71-metre-tall Puzzle Tirana high-rise with a facade of protruding blocks designed to resemble "the archetypal village house with a gabled roof".The building will contain 32,700 square metres of commercial space, apartments, penthouses and a hotel."The concept of the project comes from the fusion and densification of two worlds: urban and rural, into a single architectural intervention," studio founder Lukas Rungger told Dezeen."The proposal celebrates the concept of abstracted puzzle pieces, always different but still similar, through its varying orientations the fragments collectively shape the facade, interweave with each other and create a common built collage."Find out more about Puzzle Tirana Tirana Vertical Forest by Stefano BoeriAlso nearing completion is the latest vertical forest designed by Italian architect Boeri, which will occupy a site alongside the Arena Kombtare in central Tirana.Named Tirana Vertical Forest, the tower will be finished with 3,200 shrubs and bushes and 145 trees. The 21-storey-high residential tower will contain 105 apartments.Find out more about Tirana Vertical Forest Image courtesy of Chybik + KristofNew Boulevard by Chybik + KristofSet to be built on the central New Boulevard street, the 83-metre-high tower designed by Czech architecture studioChybik + Kristof will be made from red concrete.The mixed-use tower will have a cascading shape that narrows as it rises. It is planned as part of a new cultural district in the north of the city.Find out more about New Boulevard The post Eight unusual skyscrapers set to transform the skyline of Tirana appeared first on Dezeen.
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  • Eye-friendly LCD monitor tries to combine E Ink and regular screens into one
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    There has been a lot of attention being paid to the general lack of quality sleep that todays people are experiencing, and a large part of the blame is being put on computer and phone screens for the melatonin-affecting blue light they generate. That, however, isnt the only negative impact that these vibrant and bright displays have on our health, especially when it comes to the strain they put on our eyes. Unfortunately for many who work using computers and phones, its an inescapable fact of life.There are paper-like screens that try to deliver a more eye-friendly experience, but until recently, those have been limited to very expensive monochrome E Ink screens. Electronic paper or e-paper displays now do support colors, but theyre still far too few to be usable by most people, especially those that do rely on a bit of color accuracy or at least realism. This peculiar monitor, however, promises the best of both worlds, though what it offers might come at a price, literally.Designer: HannspreeAlmost all of the LCD and OLED screens we use today are what are called transmissive displays because they require some form of backlighting to be even visible, regardless of the light around them. E Ink displays, in contrast, are reflective screens because they rely on reflecting ambient light, just like how paper works. Though there are a few E Ink readers that do now have backlighting, thats often just an add-on on top, or below rather.And then there are transflective LCDs like this Hannspree Hybri monitor that try to combine the best of both worlds. Under bright light, the LCD screen simply reflects ambient lighting, but at the push of a button, you can turn on the relatively dim 50-nit LED backlight when using it in darker environments. Because the LCD panel itself doesnt directly shine a light into your eyes (at least with the backlight off), you experience less eye strain as well.Unsurprisingly, there are a few caveats to this almost-perfect viewing experience. While it has millions more colors than even the most advanced Color E Ink technology, these often look a bit more muted because of the reflective part of the transflective LCD. At the same time, the backlight isnt bright enough to let you use the display in complete darkness, which is probably the whole point anyway.The Hannspree Hybri Monitor is basically designed for use in bright spaces, such as offices or rooms with big windows and access to natural lighting, while also discouraging use late at night or in dark rooms. Its eye-friendly benefits become moot if you still abuse your eyesight anyway. That said, the $899 price tag attached to this paper-like monitor is still a tad too expensive for most consumers, though its actually on the lower end of the recent generation of Color E Ink monitors making their way to the market.The post Eye-friendly LCD monitor tries to combine E Ink and regular screens into one first appeared on Yanko Design.
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  • Super Mario World got remade in 3D using Unreal Engine 5 and the result is so much fun
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    Bobby Ivar shares his year-long process in a brilliant pair of videos.
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  • The Best Super Bowl TV Deals
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    Take your Super Bowl party to new heights with a great deal on a killer TV.
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  • Early Detection Tools Help but They Cant Stop Every Wildfire
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    Tree-mounted sensors and new satellites promise a way to detect wildfires before they get out of handbut no early detection method is foolproof.
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