CURIOSITY NEVER RETIRES

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We’ve always tried to do our best to pass on our passion for curiosity to our children and anyone else who shares our love of discovery. Now it’s the grandkids who are our focus and this is for them. You are welcome to join us as we celebrate the power of asking questions, pursuing knowledge, and embracing the amazing in the ordinary. Let's learn stuff, together! - Granny & Paw

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2026 • WEEK 31 • JUly 26 -AUGUST 1
MUSICAL LOLLIPOP LICK A SONG

What Happened:
What Happened:
At the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this past January, among all the robots and screens and AI-powered appliances, one item stopped people cold. It was a lollipop. Lollipop Star is a candy-on-a-stick embedded with bone conduction technology that plays music through your teeth when you bite down. Press a button, clench the candy between your back molars, and a song begins, traveling from your jaw directly into your inner ear. The sound is yours alone. Everyone nearby hears only a faint buzz. You are having a private concert, conducted through your own skeleton, while eating candy. It costs $8.99.

Why It Matters:
Bone conduction, sending sound through vibration in bone rather than through air, has been used in hearing aids for years. Beethoven, profoundly deaf by his fifties, is said to have clenched a rod connected to his piano between his teeth to feel music he could no longer hear. The jaw, the skull, the inner ear, the pathway was always there. It just took a few centuries and a candy company to turn it into something you could buy for less than a cup of coffee. Your own head, it turns out, is a concert hall. You just needed the right key. They make one with a classic rock track. — Granny & Paw


Source:
Interesting Engineering / CES 2026, "Lollipop Star musical candy," January 2026.

Read the article here: https://interestingengineering.com/ces-2026/musical-lollipop-lick-a-song

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