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This week, we recall our most recent “wow” moments with the products in our lives. What are yours?

• Raffaele Vitale asks on Twitter: what was your last and truly memorable “wow" moment you had with a digital or physical product?
• Play uses a wild drawer system to let you actually design apps on your phone. It’s very smooth.
• Hands on with iOS Live Text.
• Unlock your phone with Apple Watch when wearing a mask.
• Tonal’s dynamic weight mode is very cool.
• NFTs are weird. If you’re interested, start with this post: How to set up a crypto wallet to buy NFTs by Pablo Stanley. OpenSea is where most NFTs are being sold.

• Brian shared replicate.ai/explore, a playground of machine learning programs that you can run in the browser. Check out toonify and age simulator.
• Marshall shared Survivor Season 41, but drop the 4. A whole new era!

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