Why hello there my Well Wired e-friends!

Welcome to another issue of your favourite tech focused wellness and personal growth newsletter.

Ever wondered how a Pink Floyd tune might sound when extracted straight from your brain with AI? 🎸 

Or how many calories are in your food by simply taking a snap. 🥗

And speaking of snaps, Snapchat's AI has gone rogue – but don't worry, it's just a glitch, or is it… 😶‍🌫️

Todays wire:

🌱 AI Wellness, Self Growth, Productivity 

• 🥗 Ex-Google whiz kid cooks up a food pic calorie app!

• ☕ Coffee, AI music, and your human brain

• 🧠 Google's DeepMind: your new AI life coach?

• 🎸Pink Floyd tune extracted from brain with AI: hear it now!

🥽 Wearables

• 🥽 Embracing VR: are we close to a ‘Ready Player One’ world?

• 💤 Free sleep apps that are not snoring, I mean boring

• 🕶️ Meta Quest 2 releases prescription lenses

🗞️ Breaking AI News

• 📰 NY Times vs OpenAI: A lawsuit that could change AI forever!

• 🚦The new AI Terminator catches 300 drivers in the UK

• 🥷 Snapchat's AI goes rogue – just a glitch, they say!
  
  

• ⚡Supercharge Your Life (AI Tools & Resources)

• 🔋 Optimise Your Wellbeing (Latest Wearables)

• 📺️ Must watch AI videos

• 🎒AI Masterclass (Prompt Tutorial)

• 📸 AI Image Gallery 

Read time: 6.5 minutes

🌱 AI Wellbeing & Self Growth

Snap, eat, repeat: Ex-Google whiz kid cooks up an app that turns food pics into calories!

This is your diet's new BFF! Unleash the power of SnapCalorie and watch your meals spill their guts – literally!

A Picture's worth a thousand calories:

Get ready to meet the app that's more inquisitive about your lunch than your nosy coworker.

SnapCalorie, whipped up by a former Google genius (who probably had too many mysterious lunches), is here to turn your food pics into calorie confessions.

The diet detective you never knew you needed:

Ever wondered what your sandwich is hiding? With SnapCalorie, your meal's secrets are just a snap away!

It's like having a personal nutritionist in your pocket, minus the judgmental looks while you eye that cheese burger...

Here’s your step-by-step guide to being a calorie wiz with SnapCalorie:

• Snap and scan: Take a pic of your meal, and let SnapCalorie's AI do crunch the calorie numbers. It's like magic, but without the wand!
  

• Get the inside scoop: Get calorie counts and nutritional breakdowns so easily that you'll wonder if your food is gossiping about itself.
  

• Make choices like a boss: With all this newfound food intel, you can decide whether to indulge or impress your fitness app.
  

• Elevate your chow game: Start your journey to food enlightenment now. Share the love with friends, and make them part of the SnapCalorie cult.

Whats next? Your food's tell-all book

After you’re a SnapCalorie sensation, here's how to keep the food fun rolling in:

• Dive into nutritional Narnia: Explore SnapCalorie's world of nutritional tips and tricks. It's like a choose-your-own-adventure, but with more fiber!
  

• Set goals like a pro: Use the app's features to set health goals that even your overachieving sibling would envy.
  

• Brag about your success: Tell everyone about SnapCalorie's life-changing magic.
  
  Like this post? Invite friends to join the food revolution, and subscribe for more tasty tidbits that'll make you the talk of the lunchroom!

🧠 AI Productivity  

Coffee, AI music, and your brain: A trio that's better than a boy band! ⚡☕

Ever thought your morning coffee and AI-generated tunes could be the secret sauce to unlocking your brain's hidden potential?

Neither did we, until NYU's Tandon School of Engineering spilled the beans (coffee beans, that is).

They revealed that your daily caffeine fix and AI music can turn you into a cognitive superstar. Like having a personal trainer for your brain, minus the sweat!

Brewing brilliance: How to balance your mind with coffee and AI music – no barista needed! 🧠🎧

In the quest to become the next Einstein, or to remember where you left your keys, a new study has brewed up a delightful concoction of coffee, AI-generated music, and brain power to help you get there.

To level-up your brain researchers, clearly fans of good tunes and strong java, have developed an algorithm called MINDWATCH.

The study found that listening to music (in the beta band) and drinking coffee were both linked to stronger beta band activity, which led to associated optimal cognitive performance.

And guess what?

AI music did it even better than your favourite pop star's latest hit. AI-generated music produced stronger beta band signals than traditionally produced music.

Drinking coffee at the same time resulted in a significant boosting of signals in the beta band, while smelling perfume dropped the beta band power, but improved performance in other areas.

Ok so let’s spill the secrets (not the coffee) on how you can turn your daily routine into a cognitive carnival. Like a self-help book, but without the annoying inspirational quotes!

Here’s how:

• Embrace AI music: Find AI-generated music that tickles your brain cells. Whether it's AI Beethoven or techno, let your neurons groove.
  

• Enjoy your coffee: Your daily cup of Joe is now your brain's best friend. Drink it while listening to your new AI soundscape. Who knew?
  

• Invest in wearable tech: Consider gadgets like Empatica E4 wristbands to help you test the cognitive results of your brew tune. It's like having a Fitbit for your brain, minus the step count.
  

• Personalise your experience: Your brain is unique, just like your coffee order. Find what works for you, and no, extra whipped cream won't help.

Ready to embark on a journey where coffee meets AI music, to unlock the next level of your performance and cognitive agility? 🤖🚀

Dive into the detailed article below to find out more…

🧑‍💻 Read the full wire

Ps. If this brainy brew has perked up your interest, share it with your friends and get them to subscribe to the Well Wired newsletter.

Let's turn that morning fog into a cognitive fiesta!

🗞️ On the Wire   

Other AI news, trends and insights

Discover more AI news, trends and insights focused on wellbeing, productivity and self-growth from around the webasphere!

• 💄AI's radical makeover of healthcare: what's the impact?

• 🧠 Google's DeepMind: your new AI life coach?

• 🎸Pink Floyd tune extracted from brain with AI: hear it now!

• 💊 Johns Hopkins' AI: the future of personalised cancer care?

• 🪪 Fighting AI threats: time to upgrade healthcare security!

• 🖥️ IBM's new AI chip: it thinks like a human brain! 😱
  
  

🗞️ Breaking AI News   

Top 10 AI news, trends and insights

Here is a list of the top 10 non-wellness and wearable related AI news breaking around the globe this week.

• 🚗 Robo-grocers: get your snacks delivered by self-driving AI trucks

• ��Anthropic hits jackpot! $100M from South Korea – cha-ching!

• 💸 Land a whopping $900K AI job – it's real, and it's spectacular!

• 📰 NY Times vs OpenAI: A lawsuit that could change AI forever!

• 🧠 Google's AI now summarises the web – try it out!

• 🪙 Tencent's new AI: is it the best in the country?

• 🍿Hollywood's AI spending spree: writers still on strike!

• 🚦The new AI Terminator catches 300 drivers in the UK

• 🥷 Snapchat's AI goes rogue – just a glitch, they say!

• 🗣️ Deepfake speech fools 25% of listeners: Too real?
  

SUPERCHARGE YOUR LIFE ⚡

AI Tools and Resources

Welcome to todays AI tools party list 🎉. It's going to be as wild as wearing socks with sandals!📱🧦 What’s on the menu?

Snap calories like they're going out of style, explore your mind like it's a five-star vacation, and harness an AI productivity app that never takes a coffee break. ☕

• SnapCalorie: Meet the pocket-sized nutrition guru that tracks your food. Like a kale-loving coach counting calories for you on the fly.
  
  Log, learn, and leap your way to wellness. Like an avo smash, it's nutrition made simple, 🥑📱

• The Deepen: Grab your virtual backpack folks! 🎒 We're going on the ultimate self-care safari.
  
  It's an AI app to help you explore, understand, and maybe even high-five yourself. 🧠🙏

• Taskade: Conjure task lists, mind maps, and meeting agendas with a flick of your digital wand.
  
  Engage with AI assistants (like magical elves, but less mischievous) in one unified workspace. 🔮🤖

Visit our growing database of the best AI wellbeing tools and resources from this newsletter! (coming soon)

🥽 Wearables

Embracing VR: Are we close to a ‘Ready Player One’ world?

In the Daily O, author Ayaan Paul talks about the fact that the Vision Pro by Apple looks uncannily similar to the VR glasses in the film "Ready Player One".

If you’re not familiar with the film, here’s a little refresher…

In the not-so-distant future circa 2045, young gamer Wade Watts dives headfirst into a virtual treasure hunt in the OASIS. It’s an interesting twist of a dystopian future full of zombie-like gamers playing to live and evil corporations exploiting the masses…

It makes you wonder, how close to the truth this future world really is!

Well hold onto your VR headsets, because this world, may not just be the wild imaginings of a studio exec…

In fact, think virtual reality (VR) is as far off as your chances of winning the lottery? Think again!

We're tipping over the threshold of a 'Ready Player One' existence, thanks to tech wizards worldwide who are probably wearing cooler glasses than you.

The pace of VR's advancement is nothing short of jaw-dropping (and possibly pants-dropping if you're not careful with those VR goggles).

From Apple's Vision Pro doing its best Oasis impression to real-world applications in healthcare that make 'Ready Player One' look like child's play, the fusion of creativity and technology is as palpable as grandma's knitted sweaters.

From virtual patient care, physiotherapy and coaching, to gaming and productivity - the VR applications are endless… 🎮 🩺

Imagine… your avatar may soon live in a ‘meta-type’ world, where you might do anything from shop for digital groceries or book a virtual health check-up to getting immersive gaming where you’re getting smashed to smithereens by a digital Donkey Kong! 🐵 

Don’t believe me?

Check out these insights from VirtualSpeech and Yordstudio.

From VR's roots back in the 1960s to VR’s exponential growth in the last 5-years, the technology has reshaped entertainment, education, and many different sectors.

Here’s a little visual to show you how fast this sector is growing:

Behold the visual journey of the worldwide virtual and augmented reality (VR & AR) market from 2018 to 2023:

• Back in 2018, this thriving market started at $13.4 billion.

• Fast forward to 2023, and the projection soars to a jaw-dropping $142.4 billion.

The line starts its upward climb, painting a vivid image of the substantial growth in the VR and AR market during this time span. It's a simplified linear visual, yet it paints a vivid picture of the incredible expansion and possibilities for the future.

So what to do about it?

• Harness the vision: Apple's Vision Pro isn't just a product; it's a harbinger of the VR revolution, resonating with 'Ready Player One.' For now, the $5K price-tag is prohibitive, but that will change in a few years…
  

• Manifest the oasis: If you want to know more about VR, engage with groundbreaking projects like Victoria VR, where fiction meets tangible reality.
  

• Navigate the oasis: Get connected to VR news channels to get a unique perspective on the societal influence of 'Ready Player One.'
  

• Trace VR's growth: Journey through the rich chronicle of VR with VirtualSpeech's enlightening guide.
  
  Today you can join online courses using virtual reality (VR) with AI-powered role play exercises and feedback. Crazy!

What does the future hold?

We’re witnessing the fusion of imagination and technology, where the ordinary melds with the extraordinary. Is this the future we’ve been waiting for? Who knows - let’s wait and see 🥽 🥳

Further reading

• 🎮 Bringing Ready player one to life with the Vision Pro

• 🕹️ Vic VR - dive into the Oasis without leaving your couch

• 🧠 History of VR: from sci-Fi dreams to your living room

• 🩺 VR healthcare: say goodbye to waiting rooms

• 🫣 Peek into the future: VR, AR, and Metaverse predictions and trends

🧑‍💻 Read the full wire

🗞️ On the Wire  

Other Wearable news, trends and insights

Discover more breaking news, trends and events in the wearable universe! Plug into the next step in the wellness evolution!

• 🕶️ Meta Quest 2 releases prescription lenses

• ☔ Has OnePlus solved the wet touchscreen problem?

• 💤 Free sleep apps that are not snoring, I mean boring

• 🪓 Are wearables breaking down? Pebble and the birth of digital orphans

  
  
  

🔋OPTIMISE YOUR WELLBEING

Trending Wearables

From a mouse that hugs your fingers, like a clingy pet hamster, to a mechanical skeleton that's super supportive, and a tracker that's ready to live your life for you (because who wouldn't want a double?).

Step right up muchachos, it's a fashion fiesta with a tech twist! 🎉❤️

• Who knew the humble computer mouse needed a makeover? Yet here's the wearable Clip Mouse that sits on your fingers, no pad needed. 🐭💫
  

• DACHSER's giving warehouse workers a bionic boost with German Bionic's exoskeletons. It’s like Iron Man turned a warehouse into a superhero training ground. 🤖💪 
  

• WHOOP's laughing at step-counting wearables. Why count steps when you can track heart rate with 99% accuracy? It's like the gold-standard, turning other wearables green with envy.
  
  Trackers tell you what you did. WHOOP tells you what to do next. 🎩💓

  
  

📺️ Must-Watch AI Videos

Hey there Wellonytes and gadget gangsters!

Grab your virtual surfboards and ride the wave of AI's latest marvels with our handpicked video buffet 🎥💡🤖.

Hang ten, or just hang out – either way, it's a splashin' good time! 🌊 

AI: Last Week Tonight (HBO)- John Oliver

Artificial intelligence is increasingly becoming part of our lives, from self-driving cars to ChatGPT. John Oliver discusses how AI works, where it might be heading next, and, of course, why it hates the bus. 🦾 🚌

Barbenheimer - Curious Refuge

“She has become death, the destroyer of worlds.”

Grab your shades and sunscreen, gang! The summer of 2023 just got hotter with the release of... Barbenheimer! It's the mashup you’ve always wanted, but feared to ask.

AI MASTERCLASS (Prompt) 🦾

Shrink your friends: turn anyone into a kid with Midjourney – it's like time travel, but cuter!

Ever wanted to see your boss as a toddler? Now you can, thanks to Midjourney!

A Glimpse into Childhood:

Imagine turning your grumpy neighbour into a chubby-cheeked cherub or your favourite celebrity into a mini-me version of themselves. With Midjourney, it's not just possible; it's a probable!

Never used Midjourney? Take a look at this video to set it up!

The ultimate party trick – mini AI tutorial:

Want to spice up a birthday card or create the most unforgettable Mother's Day tribute? Midjourney's got you covered.

Here's how to turn anyone into a little kid, even if they still act like one:

1. Choose your victim (ahem, subject): pick someone you'd love to see as a kid. Maybe it's a self-growth guru or that guy from the coffee shop who always looks so serious.
   

2. Enter the magical prompt: Use the following ChatGPT prompt, and don't be shy about the details:

ChatGPT prompt

[Celebrity name] [age], [Type of shot], [Shot details], studio photography, volumetric lighting, [clothing], [facial expression], [trait], realistic, [Focal Length], expressive, iconic, 4k --ar 2:3

3. Watch the transformation: Midjourney will whip up an AI-generated image that's so spot-on, you'll swear it's a time-traveling photo.
   

4. Laugh, share, repeat: show off your creations and watch the reactions roll in. It's like having a photo album from an alternate universe!

Here's what I cooked up:

I tried this technique with Simon Sinek, and the results were eerily accurate. Jump below to see the mini-simon I created at the end of this newsletter. Happy shrinking!

WHAT'S NEXT: Unleash your inner child

After you've had your fun with Midjourney, why not:

• Create a gallery of mini celebs: Impress your friends with a collection of pint-sized stars.
  

• Send personalized greetings: Make birthdays and holidays unforgettable with custom kiddo cards.

Well Wired, where growing up is optional!

📸 AI IMAGE GALLERY 

Ever wondered what the giants of wellness and self-growth looked like when they were just knee-high to a grasshopper?

We're taking a wild ride back in time to meet the kids of motivational mastery!

From tiny Tony Robbins to a mini Marie Forleo, diminutive Deepak Chopra, and small Simon Sinek, these larger-than-life wellness warriors were once little legends with big dreams.

Join us on this nostalgic journey as we unveil the never-before-seen kiddo versions of your favorite self-growth celebrities.

Original art created by Cedric using Midjourney.

👊🏽 STAY WELL

That's a wrap on our AI and wearable wonderland tour.

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Be well wired every day,
Cedric

💡AI MEME OF THE DAY