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🤯 WOW! A guy in Longview, Texas, bought a 3D printer from a coworker to make toy dragons. Now he prints wheelchairs for toddlers, and families pay zero. Volunteers like him have built 1,400 of these chairs for kids in 49 countries. More than 1,000 families are waiting for theirs.

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Luke Saintignan got a 3D printer the way a lot of us pick up a hobby. A friend at work sold him one. (Seriously, that’s how it starts.)

He printed dragons. Jets. Chess pieces. Then in June, he found a design that changed what his printer was for.

It’s called the Toddler Mobility Trainer. Think of it as a wheelchair and a stroller rolled into one, built for little kids with mobility challenges. Luke’s two printers in Longview, Texas, take a couple of weeks to make one. The kids’ families pay nothing.

His first chair went to a girl named Lucy. “It really hit me when delivering the first chair and seeing that family and how grateful little Miss Lucy was,” Luke said.

I had Luke on my show, and that story got me. So I donated $1,000 to help build more chairs.

The design comes from MakeGood, a disability device nonprofit in New Orleans. The plans are free, so anyone with a home 3D printer can build one. Here’s how it works:

Volunteers have built 1,400 of these chairs for kids in 49 countries. More than 1,000 families are waiting to get one.

Store-bought mobility devices for kids cost more than many families can swing, and insurance denials are common. For a toddler, a few months is forever. Getting around on their own is how little ones explore, learn and keep up with their friends.

You don’t need to be an engineer. Pick your lane:

Luke started with dragons. Now he builds something a lot bigger: a kid’s first taste of getting somewhere on their own.

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Google shops along: I already have three browser tabs open for the same lamp, so Google’s Universal Cart feels embarrassingly targeted. It saves products from Search and Gemini across multiple retailers, then remembers them for later. It can also nudge you when prices drop or sold-out items return, find promo codes and weigh your credit card perks. I love the time savings. I’m less thrilled that Google is building a file on my seasonal throw-pillow weakness. 

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Pixels get papers: Get this. Instagram AI stars can reportedly get official digital IDs in China, because fictional people need paperwork before selling you garbage. Regulators are registering synthetic humans and virtual influencers, so a real person or company can be traced when the fake one lies, scams or causes harm. That matters beyond China. The next digital sweetheart pitching easy money or mystery supplements could cost an American family serious cash. At least somebody may finally have to answer for it.

🦞 AI’s island getaway: What does AI do with zero instructions? MIT researchers gave 13 AI agents virtual lobster bodies and set them loose on a digital island for 30 hours each. They bowled, built and made art. One constructed a memorial for blocks lost at sea. Another’s tower collapsed, so it turned the rubble into a sculpture called “Hubris.” Next time your chatbot takes a beat to answer, it might be daydreaming about bowling. Talk about shellfish ambition.

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One connection is enough, thanks: Your iPhone has a sneaky battery drainer in iOS 27. There’s a feature that uses Wi-Fi and cellular together to boost your connection. Handy, but your battery picks up the tab. Go to Settings > Wi-Fi and turn off Connectivity Assist. Faster browsing is nice. A phone that’s still alive at 6 p.m.? Nicer.

👍 Facebook without the popularity contest: When you post that birthday photo, you can skip counting the likes. Open Settings > Preferences > Reaction preferences to hide reaction totals on your posts and reels, plus other people’s. Everyone can react, but you won’t see the tally. The cake was good. It doesn’t need 50 likes to confirm it.

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iPad shortcuts you should be using: First, open Settings > Multitasking & Gestures and turn on Four & Five Finger App Switching. Swipe left or right with four fingers to switch apps. Swipe inward from the left edge with one finger to go back. Find apps by swiping down from the middle of the Home Screen, or hold an icon for quick actions. It’ll be muscle memory in a few days.

📎 Save it. Just not to your desktop: Gmail attachments can go straight to Google Drive instead. On your computer, open the email, hover over the attachment and hit Add to Drive. It lands in the Drive account linked to your Gmail, ready to organize or share later. One click and it’s filed. Your Downloads folder has enough “final” versions to start a trilogy.

Find your corner of Reddit: There’s a free map for that. Map of Reddit turns Reddit communities into a giant world map. Search for something you’re into, like gardening, and explore what’s nearby. Communities with lots of the same people tend to appear close together. You might discover a whole group obsessed with orchids. Your kind of people, basically.

North Carolina traffic came to a halt when a 30-foot inflatable pumpkin decided it was done being a lawn decoration.

Strong winds sent the giant jack-o’-lantern tumbling down a road like a runaway Thanksgiving parade balloon frantic to get back to its own holiday. An Uber driver pulled over to help the owners catch it, because the gig economy also covers pumpkin wrangling.

The orange fugitive was eventually captured and returned to its farm, where it’s now tied down to two tractors. Yep. Two tractors. Somebody get this thing an ankle monitor.

Watch the pursuit unfold here. How do you fix a cracked pumpkin? With a pumpkin patch.

🎓 What you learned today: Volunteers are 3D-printing free wheelchairs for kids, Facebook lets you fine-tune your algorithm, Google’s new shopping cart tracks products and price drops, and China is giving AI influencers digital IDs. Not bad for one email. Think turning off location tags keeps your photos private? Tomorrow, I’ll show you how AI reads the background like a map, and the clues are creepier than you think.

✅ The answer: C) Up to 25 gigabytes. Yep, McKinsey estimated a connected car can generate that much data an hour. That’s about the same as streaming eight hours of HD video.

Much of it helps your car run. But some automakers have shared driving habits with data brokers who sell to insurance companies. (That’s how a hard-braking habit can raise your rate.) Lock it down: Open your car’s app or settings, find data sharing or connected services and switch off what you don’t need.

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