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At the beginning of next month Apple will launch the iPad 3. It’ll be new and shiny and full of faster processors and what have you, but it will still fall short on one major point: you can’t type at length on a touchscreen. For that you need a keyboard.

While Apple keeps its touchscreens and keyboards separate in the name of keeping its different products from eating each other, has the rest of the market got it right already with the influx of hybrids? And if so, will that mean that the iPad will become a relic in the market it invented? Yes. Read on to find out why. Read more

JVC has just announced the new Everio X hybrid camera. It is also known as the Everio GZ-X900, but good luck remembering that next time you’re in Jessops. Here’s something that might stick in your mind though: it can record at 600fps. That’s not a typo – that’s your ticket to recreating The Matrix in your back garden.

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Panasonic Lumix GH1 launched

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The Panasonic Lumix GH1 hybrid camera has just been launched, and it shoots full HD video too! All the details after the jump.

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UPDATE: Turns out the Samsung NX series doesn’t use the Micro Four Thirds technology Panasonic and Olympus are using, but the DSLR tech inside makes it just as desirable.


Samsung has just announced the NX series of hybrid cameras, packing DSLR technology in something much smaller. Looks like Samsung just knocked the Panasonic Lumix DMC-G1 off its half DSLR, half point and shoot perch. All the details after the jump.

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PS3 gamers who have yet to make use of their Blu-ray player to actually watch movies might soon change their minds if Sony comes through on its latest bright idea – stuffing both a film and a game onto the same Blu-Ray disc.

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Honda’s prototype Numo hybrid scooterBikers aren’t known for their eco-friendly image, but Honda reckons there’s a huge un-tapped market for greener, hybrid bikes.

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Honda’s hybrid rally carHybrids don’t just mean low emissions. In the hands of Honda’s crack team of eco engineers, they’re also some of the fastest rally cars around.

The company’s rally team, Oaktec, is dead set on cranking up performance to the limit, using a special Civic hybrid rally car to highlight performance to crowds at the Green Car Guide Live show in Liverpool.

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Jaguar: soon to be really, really greenLand Rover and Jaguar have both begun development of hybrid engines to power their next-generation run-arounds. They’re late off the starting block, but thanks to a cash boost from new owner Tata Motors, they’ll have eco-friendly models in five years.

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