The HP Touchpad. It’s cheap, it runs the cult favourite Web OS, it can be ported to Android and sporadically comes on sale for $99 (£63). You want it? Sure you do. Good news, then; it’s going to come back on sale for a very brief period of time. Read more
The uncanny valley is the idea, posed by a Japanese robotics professor, that as humanoid robots start to resemble us more and more, we warm to them. But there’s a point where sudden repulsion kicks in: the more they look like us, the more we realise they don’t.
It’s like playing Fallout 3, and being grossed out by the NPC’s freaky frown lines, or LA Noire and wondering why every female character’s hair appears to be made of papier mache. It isn’t human.
It’s precisely what’s wrong with Android tablets like the Motorola Xoom 2. Honeycomb is starting to resemble a viable tablet option, but it still doesn’t feel quite right.
Acer has just announced that it’s going to ditch netbooks and focus on Ultrabooks, citing that making cheap tat isn’t getting it anywhere. Ultrabooks could well be its saviour, but it’s completely insane that it’s taken Intel to tell manufacturers how to make them. Read more
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Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) has been hitting our headlines nearly every day for the past couple of weeks, due to word coming from hither and thither that it’ll be landing on this handset or that tablet soon. It’s been a lot to take in, so let’s try and answer the ‘is my device getting Android Ice Cream Sandwich?’ quandary once and for all. Read more
Steve Jobs probably wasn’t a fan of Spotify. Or at least that’s what we can glean from a previously buried interview from 2003. The talk, which has only just been published, reveals the late Apple CEO’s thoughts on subscription music services. Read more
Long time readers of the site will know that we really don’t like RIM’s BlackBerry Torch line of hybrid QWERTY sliders. The knowledge that another one is on the way leaves us with mixed feelings: on the one hand, the BlackBerry Milan looks little like its predecessors. On the other, RIM could just muck it up again.
