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Narrated at a speed so fast that it makes cheap television voiceovers look positivity walker in comparison, an amphetamine-fuelled picture has gone up showing off the delights of the new LG G-Slate android tablet.

As the narrator heads dangerously close to hyper-ventilating, the joys of the 3D stereoscopic video recording equipment are explained, accompanied by the briefest of glance of his 3D-ified smile chum.

Facts are spewed out like a Gatling gun dispensing stat bullets, with a pair of dismembered hands pointing out the various port and sockets.

The device looks deliciously thin throughout the Warp factor Ten presentation, and we rather liked the natty little tablet holder too.

The multi touch seemed pretty smooth to our eyes, and we’re rather keen to get our hands on this Honeycomb-powered tablet as it’s certainly one of the better unity recently announced.

It’s been billed as being available on the US T-Mobile web in “the spring,” although we’ve no idea if or when us Brits will be getting a go.

Update: unfortunately, the picture has been removed, so here’s a more stately promo video:

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Rarely do things look as wrongfulness as this, but researcher at Osaka University’s AFFETTO were apparently tasked with creating a robot modelled after a young child with a face so realistic that it would be, “treated as a human being by human caregivers, not as a robot.”

Christened Affetto, the body-free brute is currently under development in an ‘emergent robotics laboratory’ at Osaka university and is designed for “simulating baby cognitive development.”

What they have in fact created is a deeply disturbing, weirdly gibbering dismembered head that expression like it has escaped from the set of Alien.

Run! Run we tell you!

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The web is full of ghastly video of over-excited, blue-shirted apple employees high-fiving anyone insane enough to hold in a queue for a new iPhone overnight, but it seems that the hype has stopped dead at the apple store in the Mall of America – one of the largest promenade in the US.

As the new  iPhone4 finally launched on the Verizon network, the company were expecting the same kind of Wyrd frenzy that accompanied the original launch of the iPhone 4, but it seems that – in Minneapolis at least – that whole whoopin’ and a-hollerin’ thing has become thoroughly passée.

Facepalm all the way

Watch in embarrassment as legion of Borg-like apple employees enthusiastically clap the two customer who bothered to wait outside the apple store in the Minnesota twin Cities.

It make for quite uncomfortable viewing and we actually feel rather feel sorry for the apple staff who are – presumably - compelled to act like such eejits every time a new apple product is launched.

Let’s hope that this embarrassing PR flop marks the end of such crass, corporate-engineered celebrations of consumerism Well, until the iPhone 5 get released, at least,

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Seen peal along the streets of mount View, Calif. is this little stick automaton that is filmed pop into [Via] cafe to buy a snack.

“It’s got to be some crazy Google thing,” comments the amateur cameraman, as he follows the robot into the cafe where he finds the robo-thing patiently standing in line.

The automaton places its order with the suitable befuddled shop assistant, while bystanders look on in amused amazement.

With the scone stored away in a decidedly low-tech bag, the robot delivers a generous tip before departing.

The moving-picture show ends with the little automaton waddling its way home down a street.

Come to think of it, we fancy a coffee right now. Anyone got one of these golem we can borrow?

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It’s been one of our biggest colic with the otherwise splendid Kindle, but virago are now adding page numbers to their e-books which will match the page Book of Numbers in their respective print editions.

‘Andy for academics

For faculty member and students who need to quickly mention and cite transition this should make eBooks [Via] more attractive alternative, with the upgrade approach as an over-the-air software package update soon.

Page Book of Numbers will be coming to Kindle’s various Mobile apps “in the coming months,” with the Kindle update also including new newspaper and magazine layouts offering “quicker find and navigation.”

Users will be able to automatically share their book notes and highlights with their personal web and other Kindle readers if they so desire.

Social networked up

Amazon want you to share your booky booky opinions with the world, so at the end of each book, user will be prompted to rate their read in the Kindle Store, and to post up their idea to social networks – and also see recommendation for further reads.

Get the update

If you’re in a hurry, you can manually update your Kindle here otherwise the over-the-air update will be hurtling through the ether to Kindle devices in the near future.

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Man Ohio man, this is shockingly awful.

Anyone unconvinced about the benefits of three-D Mobile screens is unlikely to be moved by this feast o’cheese from LG extolling the virtues of their new, glasses-free three-D display.

Narrated by what can only be described as a Valley Girl, the message seems to be that yoga types can’t work out the moves when watching a fitness DVD on the big home TV, but with the LG’s tiny 4″ three-D display it all becomes, like, awesome. Totally!

It’s so bad it’s painful. watch this picture at your peril:

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Web site Let Simon Decide is a decision-making application intended to walk you through important decisions one step at a time.

Let's say, for example, you're considering switching careers. Register with Let Simon Decide, then click the big Make a Smart Decision button to get started. Choose your decision type from a drop-down and start walking through the suggested decision-making wizards. Simon will present you with various questions and forms to fill out, and—assuming it works—eventually suggest a decision based on what the process has revealed about what matters most to you.

Essentially it's not really Simon making the decision, since the idea is that the app just helps you think about the most important factors in your decision. You'd be crazy to let a web application make a difficult decision for you anyway, so it seems like it's taking the right approach. Got an important decision you're struggling with? Try it out on Simon and let us know how it worked for you in the comments.

Air travel just became even more stressful, as a recent government study reveals that the Federal Aviation Administration's (FAA) air-traffic control system faces significant threats from cyber-terrorists. According to the Wall Street Journal, the FAA plans to modernize its control systems over the next 15 years, thanks in part to $20 billion of funding, but the technological adaptations are apparently exposing vulnerabilities to hackers.

The FAA uses two technical support systems -- an administrative system, primarily used for corporate purposes, and an operational system, which is used for air-traffic control. Although FAA spokesperson Laura Brown told the WSJ that one network cannot be used to access the other, security tests revealed 763 "high risk" administrative weaknesses.

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