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Vox Pop Recap 🗣️

Q: Do you feel on top of your reading list?

A: ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️🖤 - 90% of you said “No”

• No - “Inbox zero is a pipe dream”

• No - “A crazy baby named Remy”

• No - “Have forty tabs open, but no time to read”

• No - “Honestly, I’m waiting for my browser window to crash so I can just lose all my tabs 😭”

• Yes - “Yes, I'm on top! I've read the titles of all articles”

  👆🏼 (This technically counts as No? Lol 😂)

The Power Goods 👠

Dola: The Calendar Whisperer

Never want to look at your calendar app again? Join the club. Meet Dola - a calendar assistant that lives in your messaging app.

Dola will turn even the most complicated commands in text, voice, or images into clear calendar events right from your preferred messaging app (iMessage, WhatsApp, Telegram). 📱 It syncs with your existing calendar - so it can add to your calendar, retrieve events, reschedule them, delete them, send you reminders, etc. I JUST had Dola add an event to my calendar and then delete it, all done via Whatsapp. AND ITS FREE!!

Some loving users say - "I told Dola that I need to be at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in time for the solar eclipse. Dola even knew that an upcoming total eclipse was a couple of weeks from now and padded some extra time between my arrival and the start time of the eclipse. The event immediately showed up in my Google Calendar." Wow, Meow! 😸

Petunias That Party After Dark! 🌸

Remember the forest of Pandora from Avatar?! Now, hold onto you gardening gloves 🧤 because there is a touch of sci-fi coming to your garden. Scientists have created glow-in-the-dark petunias, using bioluminescence genes from mushrooms 🍄. And the result is this ethereal dazzling night-time spectacle - The Firefly Petunia 🌸.

This Petunia glows with an eerie green light in the dark and could add an unusual dimension to your home decor. The plant will glow brighter when healthy and less so as it ages or gets damaged, and the newest buds are the brightest.

Enjoy a little enchantment right in your backyard (or your living room). 💫

Landlines are back ☎️

Hold the smartphone, folks! 📵 Gen Z has decided that rotary is the new viral, and we're here for this blast from the past. Yes, the corded landline phone is the new iPhone 152 (oh we are only on model 48?).

Move over, millennials—your tech is too new-school. Zoomers are ditching DMs and turning their back on the constant buzz of notifications for the sweet, nostalgic tang of a dial tone. 📞 “It’s very Sex and the City,” admits a retro-enthusiast Zoomer. "I mean, nobody cancels brunch via a text. If you're going to flake, you've gotta work for it!"

This renaissance is the reason Urban Outfitters, Target and Best Buy are selling landline phones all of a sudden. 📟

These digital natives, armed with irony and Instagram, are connecting their smartphones to old-school receivers. So your landline and your cell phone will ring when someone calls. "It’s super cute and somehow feels like real life?” Classic Gen Z. 😂👌

Flip phones, CDs, and anything that screams Y2K are also a part of this charming anachronism. "Texting without a touch screen is so authentic," muses another Gen Z'er, probably while flipping their phone closed with a snap that would make any '90s kid proud. 📱💽

So, why are today's youths swooning over technology that can't even connect to Wi-Fi? Because it reminds them of simpler time without notifications and the newsfeed. Sigh, don’t we know it!

So if you are interested in time travel and throw backs - Here are some popular ones on Amazon.

Your Two Cents 💡