⭕️ AI neck wearable restores speech after stroke

Researchers at University of Cambridge developed Revoice, a soft fabric choker that helps people with dysarthria speak again without surgery. The device reads throat muscle signals and converts silent speech into fluent sentences in real time.

How it works:
🔸 Textile strain sensors capture muscle vibrations in the neck
🔸 One AI model decodes silently mouthed words
🔸 A second model infers emotional tone from pulse signals
🔸 Output speech is reconstructed with context and emotion

In tests on 5 post-stroke patients, word error rate was 4.2% and sentence error rate 2.9%. Users reported a 55% increase in communication satisfaction. Unlike earlier systems, Revoice adds no delay between words.

The results were published in Nature Communications. Larger clinical trials are still needed, but the approach could extend to Parkinson’s disease and motor neuron disorders.

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💡 Giant Bic pen turns into a room light

🔸 Seletti unveiled a 1.8 m lighting fixture shaped like the Bic Cristal pen at Maison&Objet in Paris. The project marks 75 years of the iconic pen. The lamp uses a 12:1 scale and replaces the ink tube with a 2,400 lumen LED.

🔸 The design keeps the original form. A transparent body, a colored cap, and the familiar proportions are all preserved. Materials were chosen to closely match the real pen.

🔸 The lamp can hang from the ceiling, mount on a wall, or stand vertically as a floor light. Its size makes flexibility necessary rather than optional.

Bic Lamp is set to launch in the US later this year at $350.

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🤖 AI-generated conjoined twins pull 200,000 followers in a month

🔸 An account featuring a two-headed girl went viral online. The characters are presented as conjoined twins named Valeria and Kamila. The account gained about 200,000 followers in 1 month.

🔸 Men in the comments write love messages, send donations, and propose marriage to both characters. Engagement stays high across posts.

The catch is simple. The twins and all images are fully generated by AI.
Attention remains easy to capture when realism is convincing.

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