It Grows on You. Literally: Sweekar’s AI Pocket Pet Hatches at ShowStoppers Berlin

Sweekar is a palm-sized AI pocket pet that arrives as an egg, hatches in your hands, and then does the one thing gadgets never do: it grows up. Across four life stages it physically gets bigger, from a 6.1 cm egg to a 7.1 cm adult.

No two turn out the same. Sweekar starts with no personality at all — how you feed it, play with it and talk to it is what it becomes. Its language grows with its age too, from single words as a baby to full sentences as an adult, and it remembers your name, your routines and the things you tell it. There is no camera: it senses the person in front of it rather than watching them.

Then it leaves. Once grown, Sweekar heads out through your pocket for a few hours and comes home with an AI-generated photo of the trip, plus postcards and souvenirs to collect.

At ShowStoppers Berlin we will have Sweekar at all four of its life stages on one table — so you can hold the difference instead of reading about it.