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We asked you what the best Android UI is: if you had a choice, would you choose HTC Sense, Motoblur, or stick to Android pure and simple? To our surprise, HTC Sense completely floored the competition, and even beat pure Android. The HTC Sense Android UI scooped 66 per cent of the vote, with pure Android trailing miles behind in second, with 28 per cent of the vote. 5.6 per cent of you liked Samsung TouchWiz Android UI, and a handful of votes came in for the Motorola Android UI, Motoblur, and for Sony Ericsson UX.

What’s the best Android skin?

Is Android better with a skin? If so, what do you think is the best Android skin? Would you always plump for Android with HTC Sense, or are you in love with TouchWiz on the Samsung Galaxy S? Tell us what your favourite Android skin is, or whether you’d rather ride bare backed with a pure Android experience. Click and tell!


Swiss scientists have identified a new gamer condition in the British Journal of Dermatology. Christened PlayStation palmar hidradenitis, its symptoms include sweaty palms, painful lesions and an overpowering urge to use caps in internet forums. Okay, not that last part. The disease was discovered after a 12-year-old girl attended hospital with painful sores on the palms of her hands.

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Rash risk to mobile phone users

Anyone using their mobiles for long periods (i.e. most of us) now run the risk of developing an allergic skin rash according to a scary report just out from the appropriately acronymed British Association of Dermatologists or BAD.

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rubber skinJapanese researchers behind the development of this new rubber say it can conduct electricity pretty well and makes the stretchable material the ideal “e-skin” for robots to enable them to feel both heat and pressure.

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