It’s not totally clear how Rhye makes all these songs with the same small set of musical tools, but here we are with a new one. This one’s different from the others because it puts the regular chord progressions and vocal tics over a piano, with claps holding the beat this time. And as the vocals repeat, “I wanna be needed,” there’s an extra dose of warmth and just the teensiest bit of foreboding in some minor chords. In keeping with that one new detail, the accompanying album, out next week, is dubbed a “piano project,” meaning we are in, again, for more of the same. But that’s the promise of Rhye: always pleasant, always predictable.

Breaking news: Huggies is here with smart diapers to tell you when your baby has shat, in case it’s not already abundantly evident. The setup comes with a bluetooth diaper attachment that connects to your phone, alerting you when the inner-diaper air quality dips– helpful, perhaps, to anyone without a nose. Make no mistake, this innovation isn’t coming because anyone wants it; it’s because the birth rate is in a steady decline, and fewer new parents mean fewer diaper sales, so they’re seeing if they can get a better bang for their buck on a fancy new thing. Kind of makes you want to just get a litterbox, doesn’t it?

Guess what else Snake People* aren’t buying? TVs. So to entice us, Samsung has invented a vertical screen that we can watch as if it’s a giant phone. Cause watching large-format phone video is exactly where a 28-year-old wants to put their $16,000.

*Millennials

There’s a bluetooth litterbox too. Kind of gives a new veneer to the “push notification,” doesn’t it? 💩