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Digital-to-Analog Converters, long-range radios, LED arrays, mini projectors, and air sensors. Click around in the Community Innovation Program forum of Finnish mobile company Jolla, and you’ll find all manner of weird and wonderful ideas for swappable back covers for its upcoming Jolla Phone. Enough to make even the wildest MagSafe accessories look a little safe and boring.

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At the same time Apple announced the AirPods Pro 3 last year, the company also introduced a new feature called Live Translation. It makes the idea of the Babel fish, so evocatively described in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, a reality: Something sitting in your ear that can instantly translate between languages, on demand.

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Know thyself. It’s an old adage that has new resonance in the digital age. Today, you can buy smart devices that monitor your heartbeat, blood pressure, exercise habits, water intake, sleep, mood, menstrual cycle, sexual activity, and meditation patterns, not to mention your poop. The internet of things has turned into what academic and author Andrea Matwyshyn has termed the “Internet of Bodies” with the promise of selling you insights about your “quantified self.”

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Chris Hayes makes a living from attention: What deserves some, what doesn’t, and how to make sure the public gives their own limited span of it to the right things.

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