Designing a circuit board has long been a craft of patience: place the parts, route hundreds of copper tracks, check the factory can build it, then start over when something does not fit. On November 9, 2026, Anthropic published results suggesting an AI model can now handle most of that loop. Working with the board maker Diode Computers, it asked Claude to design three gadgets from short prompts, and all three prototypes ran without any fixes to their circuitry.
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Vessel – This cup tells you what it’s holding.
Vessel can identify the drink that is in it, along with the dietary content sugar, calories, protein, fat, caffeine and takes all the data and synchronizes it in your smartphone. The Vessyl mug created by Justin Lee has been designed to serve as a chic lifestyle product that is fashionable as well as functional, and it has a spill–proof lid, a non-stick interior, and comes with a charging coaster that provides enough power for the cup to work for a week with just one hour of charge time. It come...
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Pocket Breathalyzer for measuring blood alcohol content
The iBAC alcometer is a thumb-sized, portable, breathalyzer spectrometer that measures your blood alcohol content in a way that is similar to tests done at a laboratory.
It transmits the breathalyzer reading to your smartphone via Bluetooth where an application containing your bio data such as your weight and other physical characteristics analyzes the results in about a minute.
It will measure your degree of sobriety, your alcohol burning rate and will even forecast when you will have a z...
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