McDonald’s China and Lenovo just put a wireless mouse on sale that looks exactly like a carton of fries. The Fry Mark carries the familiar red-and-yellow box shape, with a top shell molded into a cluster of golden fries and the golden arches sitting on the base. Over sixty percent of that outer casing comes from plastic recovered from old Happy Meal toys.
Anyone already carrying a capable iPhone faces a simple calculation when Apple’s first folding model arrives. The iPhone Duo opens to a 7.6-inch panel and starts at $1,999, while a basic 11-inch iPad with the A16 chip will set you back just $399 (was $449). That gap alone explains why many people with a working phone in their pocket simply add the tablet and skip the foldable.
Google’s DeepMind just opened the next chapter in world models with Genie 4, a system that generates explorable environments on the fly and keeps them coherent while you move through them. You start with a text prompt or a reference image, and the model produces the scene pixel by pixel as you navigate. Standard keyboard controls let you walk or fly around while the world responds in the moment.
Polish YouTuber Kuba Klawiter bought a retail iPhone Duo with his own money and opened a livestream so viewers could take turns folding and unfolding it by hand. Volunteers rotated every hour. The plan called for a million cycles or the first clear failure, whichever arrived sooner. For the first fifty thousand folds the phone stayed in a relatively clean room and showed no real trouble. The hinge moved smoothly, the outer screen stayed intact, and the inner display continued to light up without lines or dead pixels.
Fujifilm revealed the Instax Mini Evo 2 as a hybrid instant camera that pairs digital capture with printing on classic mini film, letting users review shots and print only the ones they want while keeping digital copies of everything. Available at the end of November for $289.95 in black only, it upgrades the original model with a larger sensor, a much bigger rear display, and two new shooting tools that expand how people frame and record moments. The body keeps the retro silver-and-black look with textured panels, analog-style dials, and a film-advance lever for printing, so the hands-on feel stays familiar even as the back changes completely.