50+: Languages into which NYC’s The Theater Center can translate its performances in real-time thanks to a new live AI translation service. The off-Broadway venue has partnered with Wordly to make its work more accessible to non-English speaking and hard-of-hearing audiences. The first performance with the tech is comedic thriller Perfect Crime, NYC’s longest-running play.
$1.3m: Price paid at auction for a prototype of a rocket-firing Boba Fett toy, netting the record for most valuable vintage toy. Oddly enough, the record it’s breaking is the $525k someone paid for another prototype of the same Star Wars toy. What’s the diff? This one had an even rarer rocket mechanism. Only ~100 such prototypes exist, as the final release did not fire toy rockets, deemed to be a choking hazard.
$2.4m to $15m: How much you’d have to pay — not including maintenance fees — for an apartment aboard The World, a residential cruise ship. It has numerous amenities — a fitness center, bars, pools, etc. — and residents decide on its itinerary. The ship hits ~100 ports annually, staying for a few days at a time. Downside? No pets.
~57%: Share of US baby foods that failed to meet the World Health Organization’s nutritional standards, per a new study that analyzed 651 products. While ~93% were in compliance with total fat guidance, ~44% missed sugar recommendations and ~70% missed protein guidance. Nearly all of them contained “misleading” marketing terms — “organic,” “non-genetically modified,” etc. — that researchers say could misrepresent how healthy they are.
