#user-customization

#user-customization

Cars have evolved far beyond simple transportation, becoming mobile offices, entertainment centers, and quiet retreats from the chaos of daily life. Yet most automotive interiors remain frustratingly static, designed around assumptions about how everyone should use their vehicle rather than adapting to individual needs and preferences. Fengrui Wang's Xiaomi Flowing Oasis concept, developed as a thesis project at TU Delft, takes a radically different approach by reimagining the car interior as a modular, user-customizable sanctuary.

OpenAI is introducing new features in ChatGPT, allowing users to customize responses with distinct 'personalities' and modify the user interface for a personalized experience.

Modular technology is emerging as the antidote to our throwaway tech culture, offering devices that adapt, upgrade, and evolve with us instead of ending up in landfills.

Over a decade-plus of doing gadget reviews and review-adjacent things, my wife (and, lately, my 5-year-old) have mostly stopped commenting on the ever-shifting selection of laptops I have in my bag or lying around the house at any given time.