Honda’s ASIMO humanoid robot continues to thrill

We’ve been fascinated by Honda’s incredible ASIMO humanoid robot project, and find its tantalising glimpse of the future irresistible. We want one!

We’ve been fascinated by Honda’s incredible ASIMO humanoid robot project, and find its tantalising glimpse of the future irresistible. We want one!

With Apple’s first iPad video commercial now doing the rounds, something has become rather apparent – it’s going to be a tricky beggar to hold.

We guess we’ll be seeing a lot more of this as Apple unleash their enormous advertising budget to persuade us about the joys of their latest product, the iPad.
Their first iPad TV commercial debuted during a break in the 82nd Annual Academy Awards and serves up a 30 second demo showing the tablet device doing its thing.

Hey, how do you fancy watching a video of a bloke wearing a techie jacket over-populated with pockets doing a slow striptease in the snow?
Curious to see how many Apple products you can wear about your person in the the winter chill of the “Canadian wilderness”?
Then be thankful for Rene Ritchie, who has decided to film himself standing in his garden showing off the contents of his SCOTTEVEST Quantum Jacket, Fleece 5.0 Jacket and Ultimate Hoodie combo.

Apple has announced that the iPad will be launching in the US on Saturday April 3rd, and mustard keen punters and high-fiving fanboys will be able to start slapping down the cash for the Jesus tablet from next week.

To the accompaniment of whoops, slapping sweaty palms held aloft and champagne corks bouncing off unsuspecting exec bonces, Microsoft has revealed that its latest operating system, Windows 7, has sailed past the 90 million sales mark.

With numerous examples of loose-lipped Twitterers blabbing themselves into tricky situations, social media site NewCommBizz has compiled a handy list of Twitter Ye Nots.

Bosh! Apple’s over-worked lawyers are off again, this time laying down a massive suit against HTC, claiming that the company is infringing 20 patents “related to the iPhone’s user interface, underlying architecture, and hardware.”

Vast legions of iPhone fart app developers may be be quaking in their parping shoes today at the news that Apple has just turned down an app because it only offered, “minimal user functionality.”

It looks like there may be delays ahead for Apple’s iPad, with a ‘manufacturing bottleneck’ said to be pushing the launch date into April.
It’s been lagging behind mobile versions on Facebook on other platforms, but Microsoft’s updated Facebook app for Windows Mobile finally adds a sorely missed feature: the ability to add comments to posts made by friends.
The updated app – now hitting v1.2 – also lets users “like” their friends’ posts.
Shuttle’s new HD-compatible Shuttle Barebone XS35 Mini-PC looks like it might fit rather nicely into your oh-so-stylish lounge, measuring a mere 3.3 cm wide and kept nice’n’ quiet, thanks to passive cooling.
HD-compatible when hooked up to a monitor or TV, the Barebone XS35 manages to squeeze in some half decent specs into its bijou dimensions.
Onboard there’s an Intel Atom D510 1.6GHz processor and NM10 Express chipset, backed by a Nvidia GT218 graphics card.
App store analytics firm Distimo has been rummaging through every major app store in town, producing an interesting set of comparison figures.
Want to know which store has the highest percentage of freebies? Read on…

There’s no shortage of bloggers and tech websites knocking out endless news reports claiming to know something about what the next gen Apple iPhone is going to look like.
There’s been rumours, claimed leaks, shady insider statements and fuzzy photos supposedly snapped at a top secret factory somewhere or another. But we know the inside story…

Currently being teased on its own page is the new Sigma SD15 dSLR, a delightful looking piece of kit that has yet to see the light of day, despite being announced way back in 2006.
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