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What can you do with AI? 10 useful things to try in everyday life

An older Finnish couple considering a menu and ingredients at a table in a summer cottage.

Recipes, trips, hobbies and making sense of a difficult letter. AI only becomes fun once you give it the right job.

  • Kone Mestari
  • 3 Nov 2026
  • Gadgets

HomePod mini 2 in Finland – €169 and a faster Siri, but Siri AI stays outside the EU

The HomePod mini 2 costs €169 in Finland. Siri got much faster, but the advertised Siri AI arrives in English only and not in the EU. Who is the speaker still for?

  • Kone Mestari
  • 2 Nov 2026
  • Cars, Gadgets

Reversing camera for an old car – what a 50-euro retrofit really takes

AI-generated image: rear bumper of a weathered silver hatchback in a snowy apartment-block car park at dusk, a small black reversing camera above a blank lit number plate, red tail light on the left, parked cars, apartment buildings and street lights in the background

New cars must have a reversing camera or sensors, but you can retrofit one to an older car for a few tens of euros. How to choose a kit and what surprises people during installation.

  • Kone Mestari
  • 2 Nov 2026
  • Gadgets, Weird & Wonderful

Two water pumps sent each other 2.2 million text messages – how to avoid the same as the 2G network ends

AI-generated image: red wooden pump house on a lakeshore at golden hour, two grey control boxes with antennas wired to a blue water pump inside, a smartphone on a cardboard box showing a long stack of message bubbles, and boxes full of paper printouts

In Mariefred, Sweden, two water pumps got stuck in a text-message loop and sent about 2.2 million messages in a month. What can Finland learn as its 2G network may close after 2029?

  • Kone Mestari
  • 1 Nov 2026
  • Film, Weird & Wonderful

Dune: Part Three gets a popcorn bucket with two sandworms – AMC did it again

AI image: Dune popcorn bucket with two sandworm heads on the lid, on a cinema counter

AMC has revealed a Double Sandworm popcorn bucket for Dune: Part Three, with two sandworm mouths. The previous film’s worm bucket was 2024’s big meme.

  • Kone Mestari
  • 1 Nov 2026
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  • What can you do with AI? 10 useful things to try in everyday life 3 Nov 2026
  • HomePod mini 2 in Finland – €169 and a faster Siri, but Siri AI stays outside the EU 2 Nov 2026
  • Reversing camera for an old car – what a 50-euro retrofit really takes 2 Nov 2026
  • Two water pumps sent each other 2.2 million text messages – how to avoid the same as the 2G network ends 1 Nov 2026
  • Dune: Part Three gets a popcorn bucket with two sandworms – AMC did it again 1 Nov 2026
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