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It's getting cold

Hello oio friends! 🥶

We’re not really sure when or how it happened but we blinked and it’s December already???

The good news is that we've got time to think about resolutions and a whole bunch of oio goodies such as:

🥄 Spawns in the press

It’s been a few weeks since we launched the Spawns collection, one of the first products designed in collaboration with an artificial intelligence. A collection of three silver spoons in a limited edition of a hundred.

It turns out people were more than willing to catch them. Half of them have been sold, some already with their new owner and a few of them on their way, but all of them soup-ready! If you wanna scoop one for yourself go to oio.store c:

We’ve already seen them on display, hanging on studio walls, and even in use (cereal).

As with all shiny things, the Spawns caught a few eyes around the press, check out these lovely articles at Wallpaper* (EN), axismag (JP) and ELLE DECOR (IT).

Oh, but did I hear somebody say “FREE STUFF”? Yup, and it was ME, because we’re giving away one of the SPAWNS to a lucky human on our Discord server, so if you haven’t joined already, hop in and keep an eye on the SPAWNS channel for the details in the following days. c:

🏠 New oios in the house!

A warm welcome to Bjørn and Phalguni:

Bjørn Karmann

I like creating experiences that make you rethink how we should coexist with technology and nature. Sometimes they are large immersive exhibitions other times they are hardware hacks inspired by fungi.

Phalguni Deswal

Hi, I am Phalguni and am currently based in the UK. I love video games (both playing them and watching 7-hour long gameplay videos of these), light novels and fantasy anime. I started in healthcare, so don't be surprised if I give overly complicated explanations for everything.

🗣️ Join our Discord and stay updated on new open positions at oio

🔎 What do you mean searching with prompts?

"Attention all internet users! Tired of typing in keywords to search for what you're looking for? Get ready for the future of web searching - prompting! Check out our latest article on how this new method is set to revolutionize the way we search the web. #prompting #newsearchmethod"

🧠 text generated by chatGPT

Our futures director Simone Rebaudengo explored the concept of internet searching through prompting instead of keywords:

💬 "I always felt, like probably everyone, that I had a pretty efficient way of googling as I often find what I need. My mental model in searching is somewhat related to the way I think the algorithm works. It understands words, sometimes it does understand sentences, but it's more about whether I'm using the right word, rather than the right concept. It’s about the minimum viable amount of words that I need to jam in that box to get what I'm looking for."

📝 Read the whole thing here

🌐 Oio Community Links

Our Discord community is growing, we are now almost 600 people. Discord is where we announce things before any other channel - workshops, drops and job postings. If you want to stay tuned with the hottest news from oio, make sure to smash this JOIN link.

Here are some cherry-picked links for you:

🌽 cookie clicker but with corn and some AWESOME music

🐭 who composed the disney channel theme anyway?

💾 nothing to see here, just a couple hundred buttons from the 90’s

🌳 browser game about finding poetry and restoring nature

📊 cute pixels for data viz projects

🛠️ directory of on-demand manufacturers for your creative projects.

🧸 got any kids in your life? enter the toy matrix

☄️ asteroids simulator! big scary meatballs from outer space

Want more? Join our Discord, fool.