🦖 Yoshi finally joins Mario — in space Illumination dropped a fresh teaser for The Super Mario Galaxy Movie, and Yoshi is finally here. The iconic green dino teams up with Mario for a full-on cosmic adventure. Theatrical release: April 1. Galaxy-level fun incoming. 🌌
💸 The most expensive Mercedes ever bought Jensen Huang shared a brutal investing story. After Nvidia’s 1999 IPO, he sold 11,250 shares to buy his parents a Mercedes S600 V12 for ~$135K. Stock price back then: $12. After 7 stock splits, those shares would now be worth $1+ billion. For context: the world’s most expensive new car costs $32M. “This is the most expensive car ever,” Huang joked. The Mercedes is still in the family.
🍎 Apple is rebooting Siri — with Google’s help Apple plans to unveil a new Siri by late February, powered by Google Gemini models running on Apple Private Cloud. Yes — Apple + Google, officially. The upgrade jumps from 150B to ~1.2T parameters, marking Apple’s biggest AI leap yet. It’s also the first real demo of features promised back at WWDC 2024 — almost two years late. iOS 26.4 beta is expected in March. Siri might finally stop being a joke.
⚡️ Another Avengers: Doomsday teaser drops Marvel released the fourth teaser for Avengers: Doomsday, continuing the slow-burn hype. This time we spotted Shuri (Black Panther) and The Thing from Fantastic Four — crossover energy is real. Still no plot details, just vibes and scale. Release date: December 18.
🔥 LEGO bricks now play back At CES 2026, LEGO unveiled SMART Play — a system where bricks react to your actions with no screens, apps, or internet. LEGO calls it their biggest innovation since 1978. It’s built around Smart Bricks, Smart Tags, and Smart Minifigures. The bricks know what they’ve become, where they are, and how they move. Sounds are generated in real time, not pre-recorded — one sound engine, endless variations. Launching with Star Wars sets priced $70–$160. Preorders open January 9, sales start March 1. LEGO magic, upgraded. 🧱✨
🤖 SwitchBot introduces Onero H1 — a home AI helper SwitchBot unveiled Onero H1, a home robot with 22 degrees of freedom and a local OmniSense VLA model. It uses vision, learning, and tactile feedback to adapt to real household tasks. It can grab, push, open, and organize objects, and works together with other SwitchBot robots. Unlike last year’s K20+ Pro, which felt closer to a robot vacuum, Onero H1 is semi-humanoid with a wheeled base. No pricing or release date yet, but SwitchBot calls it the most affordable AI home robot. Sounds like robots are about to become normal.
🧠 A brain interface as thin as a hair — crypto dreams unlocked Researchers from Columbia and Stanford built BISC, a 50-micron-thick brain interface that sits on the cortex with 65,536 electrodes and 100 Mbps wireless data transfer — far beyond anything existing today. Now the crypto angle: this is a straight path to brain-to-wallet tech. Thought → intent → transaction signature. No seed phrases. No hardware wallets. No phishing. Just local neural signals decoded by AI. Today it’s science and medicine. Tomorrow? Self-custody at the neural level. Your private keys — literally in your head.
🖼 An AI painting that lives on your wall Unveiled at CES 2026, Fraimic Smart Canvas is an E-ink art frame you hang like a real painting. Describe what you want, and OpenAI-powered AI generates it. You can also upload your own images. Built on E-ink Spectra 6, it mimics real canvas texture, runs for years on battery, and fits any frame or orientation. Pricing: $400 standard, $1000 large. Preorders are live, shipping starts in June. Great for abstract art — though AI artifacts might sneak in. Still, smart wall art is clearly just getting started.
🤖 You can now buy a WALL-E (almost) At CES 2026, Zeroth unveiled W1, a WALL-E lookalike robot. China gets the licensed Disney version, while the US gets a “nameless cousin” priced at $5,600. Tracked wheels, lidar, cameras — W1 handles grass and gravel, carries up to 50 kg, follows you, hauls stuff, takes photos, even hosts board games. Speed: 0.5 m/s, height: 57 cm. They also showed M1, a small humanoid companion with Gemini AI, starting at $2,900. Reminders, conversations, home monitoring — and it can fall and get back up on its own. US preorders open Q1 2026. WALL-E energy, officially unlocked.
🥰 Cute gadget of the day: Obboto smart LED sphere At CES 2026, SwitchBot unveiled Obboto — an AI-powered LED desk sphere that feels like a tiny Vegas Sphere. It shows weather, wakes you up, reacts to sounds, and doubles as cozy ambient noise. With nearly 3,000 LEDs, it can display videos, GIFs, emojis, or preset moods. Preorders are live, priced at $250. Release date still unknown.
