The Galaxy S22 will use plastic from recycled fishing nets

The Galaxy S22 has leaked extensively, but there’s only so much you can tell from renders. For example, it turns out that Samsung has created a “new material” to use in the product – one made from the plastic in discarded fishing nets. Samsung says it’ll soon “incorporate repurposed ocean-bound plastics” across its whole product lineup, and the first example were the Galaxy devices introduced at the Unpacked event on February 9th. It’s not yet clear to what extent the material will be used or in which parts of the products; Samsung isn’t explicit about how it fits into any of the devices’ construction. Citing a report from the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations that says 640,000 tons of fishing nets are discarded in the oceans every year, Samsung says these “ghost nets” pose a threat to marine life and coral reefs. “Collecting and repurposing these nets are vital first steps in keeping our oceans clean as well as preserving the planet and our collective future,” the company writes in a blog post.


Chrome is changing its logo for the first time in eight years

Chrome is changing its logo for the first time since 2014, and if you squint really hard, you might actually be able to see what’s different. Elvin Hu, a designer for Google Chrome, offers a first look at the logo’s redesign in a thread on Twitter, as well as some of the thinking behind the ever-so-subtle changes. Instead of incorporating shadows on the borders between each colour, essentially “raising” them off the screen, the red, yellow, and green are simply flat. And while not mentioned by Hu, the blue circle in the middle seems to be bigger and stares into your soul even more, but maybe that’s just my imagination. The colours in the logo do look more vibrant (probably on account of the design team getting rid of the shadows), but there’s another change that we would’ve never noticed if we didn’t read Hu’s Twitter thread. Apparently, Google’s design team discovered “placing certain shades of green and red next to each other created an unpleasant colour vibration.” To fix this and make the icon “more accessible,” they decided to use very subtle gradients to prevent any colour vibration.

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