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How we chose the 2026 World Changing Ideas honorees f-st.co/pFRcW3C

How we chose the 2026 World Changing Ideas honorees

Under the hood of the process for assessing and moving forward applicants for World Changing Ideas 2026.

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Accessibility is more than a design problem f-st.co/X9KcCOX

Accessibility is more than a design problem

From adaptive iPhone grips to a $3,500 headset, Apple’s latest crop of assistive products shows why inclusive design depends on more than the technology itself.

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Genesis AI is betting against the tech industry's obsession with bipedal humanoids with Eno, a foldable robot with a minimalist geometric design. f-st.co/HMTBzNL

The anti-humanoid: Why Genesis AI’s new robot design isn't a fake human

Genesis AI is betting against the tech industry's obsession with bipedal humanoids with Eno, a foldable robot with a minimalist geometric design.

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A pair of comedians designed fake tech ads that skewer the medium simply by amping up its tropes: AI industry gobbledegook and design minimalism. The result shows just how real the problem of "slop voice" has become. f-st.co/7FUtbFZ

These fake AI ads are perfectly soulless

These ads might be fake, but they skewer a real problem: AI 'slop voice' that made nonsense the new normal.

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What happens when a crucial source of your income disappears? You get crafty and find partners to help distribute life-saving food to underserved areas. f-st.co/ePZaVAO

USAID disappeared. She built a coalition to feed Gaza and South Sudan

Navyn Salem, founder and CEO of Edesia Nutrition, is one of Fast Company's 2026 Visionaries of the Year for her efforts to fight malnutrition.

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The design and engineering behind Disney's park has a new AI model specifically attuned to the Disney brand. f-st.co/1c7OoYO

Disney is about to get AI-generated theme park designs

Disney Imagineering partnered with Adobe to create a custom AI model that will help them move more quickly from concept to asset.

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These World Changing Ideas honorees are focused on making the world more accessible for everyone. f-st.co/nLFgVds

How 5 companies are centering accessibility and social equity

These World Changing Ideas honorees are focused on making the world more accessible for everyone.

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By deploying private cabin communities on borrowed land, DignityMoves cuts shelter timelines from decades to eight months, pairing residents with case managers and three daily meals to bridge them to permanent housing. f-st.co/Ua1Ichw

This organization’s blueprint for ending street homelessness is as obvious as it is effective

With 12 sites across California and nine more planned, DignityMoves is doing something obvious—housing the unhoused—with positive results.

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Projects from businesses operating for 15 or more years are tackling housing affordability, cancer screening, and climate change. f-st.co/NGL5Ccd

Meet the long-standing businesses still bringing fresh, meaningful ideas to the world

Projects from businesses operating for 15 or more years are tackling housing affordability, cancer screening, and climate change.

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"This auction represents the full spectrum of entertainment history." f-st.co/hnoTdJf

Luke Skywalker’s saber and Rocky Balboa’s boots will be for sale at this upcoming auction

Bidding for the light saber used by Mark Hamill opens at $1 million.

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PopSockets’ new ultrathin grip is the product its founder wanted to make all along f-st.co/UVfGpIp

PopSockets' new ultrathin grip is the product its founder wanted to make all along

The PopSockets Low-Pro Grip is the company's thinnest product yet, and will initially be sold only at Apple stores.

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Jimmie Drummond's work on Washington, D.C.'s Barry Farm redevelopment makes him a 2026 Fast Company Visionary of the Year. f-st.co/oqNcVtY

He’s designing affordable housing with the actual needs of future residents in mind. It's rarer...

Jimmie Drummond's work on Washington, D.C.'s Barry Farm redevelopment makes him a 2026 Fast Company Visionary of the Year.

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These World Changing Ideas honorees are solving big problems by putting people at the center of solutions. f-st.co/BcqG4nB

From tech platforms to parks, these companies are putting humanity and community first

These World Changing Ideas honorees are solving big problems by placing people at the center of solutions.

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These internet-enabled phones modeled on old-school landlines are helping kids connect with each other, no smartphone required. f-st.co/HMlODxR

How Tin Can is reinventing the landline for Gen Alpha

With internet-connected, old-school phones, Tin Can is helping kids connect with each other, sans screens.

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The chain’s Kyoto-style cold-extracted espresso is a total overhaul of how it makes iced espresso drinks. f-st.co/HK0mzbY

Blue Bottle's new drinks are taking the espresso machine out of iced espresso

The chain’s Kyoto-style cold-extracted espresso marks a total overhaul in how Blue Bottle makes its iced espresso drinks.  

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From a region covering a large part of the world, these projects are displaying fresh thinking that could reach the whole world. f-st.co/yQY9Ng3

These 6 companies show that Europe, the Middle East, and Africa are still cradles of innovation

From a region covering a large part of the world, these projects are displaying fresh thinking that could reach the whole world.

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This bold public–private partnership transformed a former Walgreens into a subsidized market that serves as a blueprint for New York and Baltimore. f-st.co/fZPYOkV

Atlanta’s city-owned grocery store is an oasis in its downtown food desert

Azalea Fresh Market is a public–private partnership between the city of Atlanta, grocery operators and wholesalers, and creative agency Cohere.

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'Apolitical' brands got political again at Trump's UFC fight. f-st.co/qPkUS4w

Bud Light, Monster Energy, and the hypocrisy of sponsoring Trump's UFC event

'Apolitical' brands got political again at the President's birthday bash on the White House lawn.

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Taking a page from the dotcom boom, today's hottest IPOs like SpaceX and Anthropic, are as much a launch party as they are a financial lever. f-st.co/VHHkubn

How the IPO announcement became a publicity ritual

Taking a page from the dot-com boom, today's hottest IPOs like SpaceX and Anthropic, are as much a launch party as they are a financial lever.

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Ben Blumenrose, the cofounder and managing partner at Designer Fund, says the path to innovation starts with tinkering. f-st.co/Aollkws

'Your best mind energy is right in the morning and right after lunch': Ben Blumenrose on how to...

The cofounder and managing partner at Designer Fund says the path to innovation starts with tinkering.

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