Abstract: A system for creating highly personalized stories can receive location information associated with a user, which can be used to help identify one or more points of interest (POIs). One of these POIs can be manually or automatically selected. A user can select or the system can auto-select a host, which can represent a personality (e.g., a true crime podcaster, a documentarian, a comedian, an art historian, and the like). The POI and host information can be used to generate a custom prompt that can be fed into a large language model (LLM) generative AI to generate an output used to create a story transcript. The story transcript and host information can then be fed into an audio synthesis engine to generate synthesized audio used to create story audio content. The story audio content and optionally the story transcript can then be presented to the user.

Abstract: A device for removing moisture from a rug or other item, such as a tent or a tarp, etc. in a short time while preventing compression of the rug or the item and the resultant crushing of fringe comprising a shaft disposed on a horizontal axis having a large diameter with a rotatable smaller diameter inner tube therein, the smaller diameter inner tube having apertures therethrough, the smaller diameter inner tube being open at both ends, the inner tube being driven to rotate, and fluid removal means connected to the larger diameter tube for removal of fluid from the device, whereby when a wet rug is loaded into the smaller diameter inner tube, and rotated the moisture in the rug is spun from the rug through the apertures into the larger diameter outer tube and the moisture is drained from the device. A wet item can be loaded from either end and the item can be unloaded from either end after the moisture has been removed.