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Geminoid Summit puts robots and their masters together, weirdness follows

Thursday, Apr 7, 2011Thursday, Apr 7, 2011 - by mike s

Frankly, we can’t get enough of the spooky, lifelike humanoids being created under the Geminoids banner, and last month the robots – and the humans they’re based on – all gathered …

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computing / gaming

The Commodore 64 is back in full-on retro guise

Thursday, Apr 7, 2011Thursday, Apr 7, 2011 - by Tony Fletcher

Hoping to trade in on the tremendous goodwill felt towards the Commodore brand from old school gamers, the relaunched brand has returned with an awesomely retro ‘Commodore 64’ computer, freshly …

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Android / Google / mobiles

Google Maps 5.3 for Android adds location history dashboard

Tuesday, Apr 5, 2011Tuesday, Apr 5, 2011 - by Pete Railton

The team at Google have just released Google Maps 5.3 for Android, which lets you see your Google Location History dashboard, check in at ‘home,’ and add your own aspects …

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computing / open source / web

Firefox slowing to a crawl? Check out the bad boy extensions here

Monday, Apr 4, 2011 - by Tony Fletcher

We got so fed up with Firefox getting slower and slower that we switched to Chrome, but Mozilla’s now gone on the offensive and pointing the blame at the developers …

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Android / computing / portable

Acer offers dual core 7″ A100 Honeycomb tablet A100 for just £299

Monday, Apr 4, 2011 - by Lee J.

Just arrived on Amazon is Acer’s new Aspire ICONIA TAB A100 7 inch tablet, a fully spec’d dual core Android 3.0 Wi-Fi only tablet retailing for a very reasonable £299.

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Android / Apple / business / Google / iPhone / mobiles

Android’s growth leaves iPhone ‘dead in the water,’ Apple fans should be ‘scared to death’

Monday, Apr 4, 2011Monday, Apr 4, 2011 - by Tony Fletcher - 4 Comments.

It seems like every week we’re posting up news about the continuing growth of Google’s Android OS, and the latest figures reveal that it’s leaving Apple behind in the dust.

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computing / Google

Google wows with GMail Motion – type without hands!

Friday, Apr 1, 2011 - by Lee J.

Everyone knows that clattering away a little keyboard appears almost medieval next to all the cool spacial aware stuff that’s been going on with the likes of the Wii and …

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Apple / video

Woman makes interactive iPad out of plasticine [vido]

Friday, Apr 1, 2011Friday, Apr 1, 2011 - by Lee J.

We think this one should perhaps be filed under “slightly obsessed,” but this clever stop motion animation shows a plasticine iPad being put through its places.

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Apple

PLAYMOBIL Apple Store Playset for junior fanboys

Friday, Apr 1, 2011Friday, Apr 1, 2011 - by mike s - 2 Comments.

Man, we love this – and what  a perfect toy for those folks sitting in long iPad2 queues to play with while they wait!

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Android / computing / portable

Asus Eee Pad Transformer tablet hits the UK in April

Wednesday, Mar 30, 2011 - by Tony Fletcher

Coming hot on the heels of its launch in Taiwan, Asus will be unleashing the Android 3.0 Honeycomb-powered Eee Pad Transformer on the great British unwashed next month.

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Android / computing / portable

Motorola Xoom Android tablet goes on UK sale next week; review round-up

Wednesday, Mar 30, 2011 - by Pete Railton - 1 Comment

Motorola has confirmed that their Android Honeycomb-based 10.1in Xoom tablet will be shimmying on to UK shop shelves next week.

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computing / Windows

Lenovo ThinkStation E30 and ThinkCentre M81 – serious business indeed

Tuesday, Mar 29, 2011Tuesday, Mar 29, 2011 - by Pete Railton

There’s no denying that the scoot-stick motorin’, Frapucinno-supping fashionistas aren’t going to warm to these bad boys, but when it comes to no-nonsense, getting-on-with-the-job prowess, things don’t get much better …

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photography / video

Lumix GH2 timelapse video of London 26 March demo

Monday, Mar 28, 2011Monday, Mar 28, 2011 - by Pete Railton

A fascinating time lapse video of the half-million strong ‘March for the Alternative’ in London on Saturday has been uploaded.

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Apple

London Apple store hit by protesters, fanboys scatter

Monday, Mar 28, 2011Monday, Mar 28, 2011 - by mike s

Apple’s shiny, cash-scooping prestigious Regent Store in London didn’t escape the attention of rampaging protesters at Saturday’s huge March for the Alternative demo on Saturday.

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Google / web

Avoid catastrophic email blunders with Gmail Undo Send

Friday, Mar 25, 2011Friday, Mar 25, 2011 - by mike s - 1 Comment

Have you ever fired off an angry reply, told the boss to shove it or shared an wildly inappropriate joke with all your colleagues in a moment of madness – and then immediately regretted what you’ve …

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