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When Wendy’s redesigned its logo earlier this year, the company insisted the word “MOM” in the collar was unintentional. But plenty of other logos contain messages that were very much intended. Here are some examples, some more obvious than others.

The classic! As Matthew May said in The Laws of Subtraction, “Nearly every design school professor and graphic designer with a blog has at some point focused on the FedEx logo to discuss the use of negative space.” I recently pointed out the arrow to my five-year-old daughter and blew her mind.

There’s a Facebook group called Best Day of My Life: When I Realized the Brewers Logo Was a Ball and Glove AND the Letters M and B. If for you that day is today, this must be very exciting. Soak it up!

Look! There’s a bear in the mountain! There’s also something hidden in the candy’s name: Toblerone is a portmanteau of its creator’s name, Theodor Tobler, and “torrone,” an Italian word for a type of nougat.

It’s a tree! And a lion! And a gorilla! And now it’s no longer hidden.

The ‘R’ is a cyclist.

As David Vik says in The Culture Secret, “That’s a subtle reminder to employees and customers alike that Amazon has everything from A to Z.”

See that “31,” for the “31 flavors”? Yeah. In case it comes up, Burt Baskin and Irv Robbins were brothers-in-law.

Two Ts sharing salsa! The logo has changed slightly, but that element remains.

The Big Ten likes adding extras into logos. Notice the ’11’ in the previous logo on the bottom, back when 11 schools were involved. When Nebraska joined, the subtle 11 had to go. The conference explained exactly what it was doing: “[The logo’s] contemporary collegiate lettering includes an embedded numeral ’10’ in the word ‘BIG,’ which allows fans to see ‘BIG’ and ’10’ in a single word.”

The pharmaceutical company’s logo is made up of a capsule and two pills. In a very scientific poll of the two people next to me, 50% were surprised, while the other 50% said that’s the only thing that logo could possibly be.

The coffee chain refreshed its logo in 2010, and the caribou’s body is now made of coffee beans. But that’s not the only change. “While the Caribou in the previous logo was leaping left,” the company said, “the caribou now leaps right, signifying the direction the company is heading.” You probably picked up on that already.
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Scientists in Shanghai have developed a wifi-emitting LED lightbulb that can connect as many as four computers to the internet at once
As many as four devices near the lightbulb can connect to its signal using light frequencies rather than radio waves, according to Gizmodo.
The bulb itself is embedded with a microchip that produces its signal, which at 150 megabites per second, is considerably faster than the average wifi connection in the country.
Next month researchers will unveil 10 sample lightbulbs and their accompanying kits at the International Industry Fair in Shanghai.
Experts suggest that this faster, cheaper and more energy efficient way of connecting to the internet could become common practice in Chinese homes, where more and more people are abandoning traditional lightbulbs in favour of LEDs.
Li-Fi reportedly only uses five per cent of the energy required to power other wifi-emitting devices which rely on cooling systems to supply internet to cell towers and stations.
Though the new technology is well suited to the country’s changing technological trends, developers have encountered problems in its design and manufacturing, with particular difficulty being found in the design of the microchip.
Moreover, the connection is lost if the light is turned off or if its bulb becomes blocked, according to technology experts Dvice.
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