No, we’re not joking. NASA has just revealed details of a satellite “the size of a bus” due to collide with the Earth’s surface sometime tomorrow. The worst bit? It could land “almost anywhere”. Time to don your tinfoil hat and head to the cellar.
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Toshiba has blazed a bit of a trail with powerful, but dinky laptops ever since the dawn of its much-lauded R500. So how does its latest little lappie, the Toshiba Satellite T110, stack up? Does its size mean its just a beefed up netbook? Or does it point to a future of specced up size zero machines? Read our complete Toshiba Satellite T110 review now and we’ll reveal all.
Toshiba has just unveiled its Satellite A350, its first laptop with a 16:9 widescreen to make watching movies on the move much easier on the eye.
What’s better than HD TV? 3D TV, that’s what! Sky has been indulging in a spot of digital one-upmanship, touting the power of its HD set-top boxes by using them to receive 3D telly signals, despite the fact nobody’s got a compatible telly. Yet.
First a flotilla of robotic fish for ocean reconnaissance, then the threat of bikini clad beauty replacement robots for those in bother in the briny. Now the latest droid taking to the high seas is set to seek out much more of our murky underwater expanse.
BAE Systems plc have been showing off their rather clever robotic warfare concepts at the Farnborough Air Show this week and the main event to send the competition into the corner sulking is this droidplane named Mantis.
Fancy a dose of HD telly without the wallet wilting price tag? There’s always Freesat, for the really stingy, but now Sky’s an option too, since it just dropped the price of its all-singing, all-dancing box.