French luxury brand Hermès has unveiled its first headphones. Priced at $15,000 (approximately 20 million won), the product was handcrafted in-house by Atelier Orison, Hermès' experimental bespoke department. This launch, which combines traditional luxury bag-making techniques with audio equipment, represents a new approach to combining sound and style. The headphones are inspired by the metal hardware and hand-stitched calfskin of the iconic Hermès Kelly bag. […]
Dyson has unveiled the world's thinnest cordless vacuum cleaner, the PencilVac. With a diameter of 38 millimeters, it is a long and thin cylinder that houses the battery, motor, and dust bin, and it has a completely different form from existing vacuum cleaners. Design manager Sam Cole explained, "The whole thing is like a handle." It is 1.16 meters long, weighs 1.8 kilograms, and is 95 millimeters high when laid down, so it can easily fit under a sofa or in the gaps of furniture. The key is Dyson's newly developed […]
On May 23rd, Antropic released its next-generation large-scale language models, "Claude Opus 4" and "Claude Sonnet 4." These new models are garnering attention from developers and enterprise customers for their optimized design for complex coding tasks, long-term inference, and AI agent utilization. "Claude Opus 4," rated by Antropic as "the best ever," surpassed competing models in coding performance, achieving 72.51 TP3T on the SWE-bench benchmark and 43.21 TP3T on Terminal-bench. […]
Fujifilm plans to release the digital camera "X half (FUJIFILM X-HF1)" in June 2025. This digital device, inspired by traditional half-frame film cameras, features a vertically-oriented photography style. Weighing just 240g, the X half features a 1-inch sensor and a fixed F2.8 lens with a 32mm equivalent focal length. Unlike the typical 3:2, 4:3, or 16:9, it uses a 3:4 aspect ratio, allowing for vertical […]
The American non-profit organization TED has launched a new short-form video content feature called "TED Shorts." TED announced in an official announcement on the 21st (local time) that the feature will be available within the TED app. Users can access a vertically swiping video feed by pressing a button in the center of the navigation bar. The feed features highlights from TED talks and original content in short clips, and users can like, comment, and share […]
Danish audio brand Bang & Olufsen has unveiled the Atelier Limited Edition "Art Deco" collection to celebrate its 100th anniversary. This limited edition captivates by combining the brand's history, born in the 1920s, with the then-popular Art Deco design style. Art Deco is characterized by bold geometric patterns and the use of luxurious materials, and this collection fully reflects that aesthetic. The collection includes the brand's flagship product, the Beolab 28 […]
Apple has officially sent out invitations to the keynote speech for the 36th WWDC 2025, which will be held from June 9 to 13. The keynote will be held at Apple Park in Cupertino, California, USA at 10 a.m. (local time) on the first day, the 9th, and an online event for developers around the world will also be held. The reason this invitation is drawing attention is because it overlaps with Google I/O 2025, which was held on the same day. IT media outlets say that Apple is strategically […]
Google announced that it will significantly enhance its online shopping capabilities at its developer event Google I/O in 2025. The features unveiled this time include a visual search panel based on 'AI Mode', personalized price alerts and automatic payments, and virtual fitting technology, and will be applied sequentially starting in the United States. Google's AI Mode shopping experience goes beyond a simple product listing to provide a visually organized panel and real-time user-tailored suggestions. For example, […]
Google has unveiled a new experimental tool called Stitch. Stitch is an AI-powered design tool that can design user interfaces with simple text descriptions or image inputs, and turn those results into actual front-end code. The tool, which debuted on May 20th through Google Labs, focuses on bridging the gap between design and development by leveraging the multimodal capabilities of the Gemini 2.5 Pro model. Stitch allows product designers and engineers to […]
Google unveiled its next-generation technology strategy centered on artificial intelligence at its I/O 2025 keynote in California, USA. The announcement introduced new experimental technologies such as strengthening image and video generation models, AI integration in existing services such as search, Gmail, and Chrome, and movie production apps and 3D video calling devices. First, in the search field, the 'AI Search Mode' based on Gemini AI will be available to all users across the United States. Starting this summer, deep […]
Google has officially released the mobile version of its AI-based note-taking app, NotebookLM. The service, which was only available on desktop last year, is now available on Android and iOS. This release comes a day before the Google I/O 2025 event. NotebookLM is a tool that helps you understand complex information more easily, providing smart summaries and document-based question-answering functions. The mobile app includes these functions […]
Apple has unveiled a number of accessibility features ahead of their upcoming release in the second half of this year. These updates focus on enhancing functionality for users with visual, hearing, and motor limitations, and are available across the entire product line, from Mac to iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, and Apple Vision Pro. The most notable feature is the introduction of Magnifier for Mac. This feature brings the Magnifier feature, available on iPhone and iPad, to the Mac, enabling users with low vision to […]
