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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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📱 Apple plans a cheaper iPhone 17e at $499

Apple is preparing its lowest priced iPhone yet. The iPhone 17e is expected in the first half of 2026 with a price around $499.

🔸 Rumors point to a 6.1 inch OLED display with 60 Hz, Dynamic Island, and the new A19 chip. The processor is expected to match the base iPhone 17.

🔸 The focus is on essentials rather than extras. Hardware choices suggest cost control without splitting the core platform.

This would place Apple deeper into the mid range price segment.

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🤖 Open-source ClawdBot runs as a local AI agent

🔸 ClawdBot is gaining attention as a new open-source AI agent that runs fully on a local machine. The agent can be deployed as a self-hosted service and accessed through common messengers like Telegram, WhatsApp, or Discord.

🔸 It goes beyond a chat interface. ClawdBot can open a browser, run terminal commands, read and edit files, access the camera and screen, and handle automation tasks through defined skills. The setup is designed for direct control rather than cloud dependency.

🔸 The agent is highly customizable. Users can connect their own tools, integrate smart home devices, link external services, and extend behavior through plugins. It also includes a file-based memory system with long-term context stored in MEMORY.md and daily logs stored by date, both indexed and reused in prompts.

ClawdBot is built by Peter Steinberger, founder and CTO of PSPDFKit, as a personal project. It is unrelated to Anthropic despite the name similarity.

Source:
https://github.com/clawdbot/clawdbot

https://clawd.bot/

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🤖 ClawdBot trades stocks and crypto to pay for an RTX 4090

A user shared a case where ClawdBot suggested buying an RTX 4090 to improve performance. Instead of buying the GPU, the user set up Claude to trade stocks and crypto around the clock.

The system runs continuously and executes trades without manual input. The stated goal is to earn enough to cover the hardware cost.

The setup turns a performance request into an automated income loop.

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