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This $149 digital candle uses AI to accurately simulate a flickering flame

Global Published 29 October 2026, 18:37 · archived 29 Oct 2026

After engineering a flexible version of Tetris that could be wrapped around a magazine, Kevin Bates' latest creation is a digital candle that uses a custom AI model to accurately simulate the appearance of a flickering flame across a grid of LEDs. It's a far cry from the types of devices Bates is typically known […]

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