It certainly isn’t the biggest year for phones at the Mobile World Congress. Nevertheless, here are some of our favorite picks with a few added surprises. wired.trib.al/iUwcEKw 1/9
TCL dropped the new TCL 30 5G, TCL 30+, TCL 30, TCL 30 SE, and TCL 30 E. (Still with me?). But the big news here is the price point—the most expensive is the 30 5G which is roughly $280 US dollars (€249), and the price continues to plummet down to the 30 E. 2/9
Introducing: the TCL Fold 'n Roll. The name says it all here: This phone is both foldable and rollable, allowing you to both extend the display and shrink it down to size, then close it shut. Remember, this is a concept, so it's unlikely we'll see it for sale. 📸: TCL 3/9
Motorola is keeping things simple at #MWC22, with one phone headlining its offering: the Edge+. The design is straightforward, but additional appeal comes from three years of bimonthly security updates and two OS upgrades. 📸: Motorola 4/9
Nokia came bearing three new budget phones. The top dog is the Nokia C2 2nd Edition—a modest device that comes with a 5.7-inch display, up to 32 GB of internal storage and a single 5-MP rear camera. wired.trib.al/iUwcEKw 📸: Nokia 5/9
It may sound strange, but not everything at MWC is about phones. After a limited showing from the phone world, laptops, 2-in-1s, and tablets helped steal the show. Take Samsung’s new thin and light Galaxy Book2 range. wired.trib.al/7GKoDxD 6/9
Another great non-mobile pick is the Lenovo ThinkPad X13s Gen 1. The ThinkPad X13s Gen 1 will be the first opportunity to put an 8cx Gen 3 chip and Windows 11 on ARM combination through its paces. 📸: Lenovo 7/9
McDonald’s is known for its notoriously broken ice cream machines. But for years, the tiny startup Kytch worked to invent and sell a device designed to fix that problem—only to watch the fast food Goliath crush their business. wired.trib.al/xCwMUWP 1/11
Recently, Kytch filed a long-expected legal complaint against McDonald's, accusing the company of false advertising and tortious interference in its contracts with customers and asking for no less than $900 million in damages. 2/11
The two-person startup's new claims against McDonald's focus on emails the fast food giant sent to every franchisee in November 2020, instructing them to pull Kytch devices out of their ice cream machines immediately. 3/11
A British man wasn’t prepared for what he received in the mail: A complete top set of false teeth. His teeth. Teeth he hadn’t seen in over a decade. Teeth with a story. wired.trib.al/HxVwAcj 1/8
The gnashers in question belonged to the recipient, Paul Bishop. He hadn’t seen them in 11 years, not since a boozy vacation to Spain. Within a few hours of receiving the unsolicited dentures, he had become a viral news sensation. 2/8
Here’s the scoop—according to Bishop: While celebrating a friend's birthday, he had one drink too many and vomited into a bin. But he didn’t just lose the contents of his stomach; he lost his teeth. That is until he received the mysterious package. 3/8
At the end of 2008, Firefox was flying high. Twenty percent of the 1.5 billion people online were using Mozilla’s browser to navigate the web. Almost 15 years later, things aren’t so rosy. wired.trib.al/JxGvWGw 1/12
In the two decades since Firefox launched, it has been key to shaping the web’s privacy and security. But now the privacy-heavy browser is flatlining. 2/12
The gloomy forecast has left industry analysts and former employees concerned about the browser's future. As one former Mozilla employee says: “They're just going to have to accept the reality that Firefox is not going to come back from the ashes.” 3/12
Every state prohibits driving under the influence of weed, but no state has found a reliable way to sort the stoned from the sober—defaulting primarily to another flawed method of assessment: human judgement. wired.trib.al/1HFLPdc 1/9
Some states have implemented a 5-nanogram-per-milliliter threshold, but cannabis pharmacokinetics are so variable that even if two people share a joint, one person might dip below that level within two hours and the other might stay above it for the rest of the week. 2/9
Stoned driving is therefore one of the biggest unresolved sticking points in the long slide toward legalizing marijuana in the US—a Kafkaesque quandary with no clear solution. 3/9
The seafloor of the central Arctic is a pretty inhospitable place. And it should be: Unlike more productive oceans, few nutrients swirl here thanks to the ice above blocking the light.
But scientists have discovered that indeed, life found a way. wired.trib.al/JPmRxZU 1/10
Thousands of years ago, the peaks of the Arctic's Langseth Ridge hummed with volcanic activity that produced sulfur, which fed tube worms. Or to be precise, the sulfur fed the symbiotic bacteria inside the worms which processed it into energy, sustaining the animals. 2/10
That volcanic activity died out long ago, but there is still life under this sea.
📷: Antje Boetius/Alfred-Wegener-Institut/PS101 Awi Ofos System 3/10
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This human-body-sized sock looks weird, but it’ll help you or your partner sleep like a peaceful, swaddled baby. If you don't live with your partner, it's like being hugged without the body heat or breathing in your ear. wired.trib.al/h5xVOHv 📸: Brian Munt/Hug Sleep 3/8