I’m a skeptic when it comes to real-time translation tech, but I’m intrigued by the Timekettle W4 Pro buds and the newly announced Babel OS. You can create a custom lexicon for specific words like names, industry jargon, locations, and most importantly, slang! We’ll have to see how well it works, but it acknowledges one of my biggest pet peeves with translation tech: how fast language evolves.
The big update is a new integration with Strava, but there’s also a new roster of Time to Walk guests, musical Artist Spotlights, and training programs. Including one for pickleball. Yes, pickleball.
I’m most jazzed about Yoga Peak Poses — a series that aims to help you master harder yoga poses. Crow pose in 2025, here I come. (Probably not.)
Guinness beer is having a moment, thanks in part to a social media challenge where folks chug the stout until the foam hits the middle of the ‘G’ on the pint glass. However, our esteemed UK colleagues want everyone to know that while Americans and our media are just now glomming onto the trend, across the pond this is old news.
[The New York Times]
Smart rings had a resurgence this year. The question is whether the renaissance will continue.
