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Google has launched its belated Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich OS which will enable it to make a stronger push into the tablet market where Android is currently running on 6 million devices (compared to iOS running on 25 million). Android 4.0 is clearly designed to unify the Android experience and while there are plenty of details lacking, we know that Ice Cream Sandwich has: New User Interface taking a cue from the Honeycomb tablet operating system, Ice Cream Sandwich sports a sleek... Read Full Story

At it’s ‘Let’s talk iPhone’ event Apple has announced the launch of the iPhone 4S which will be available from October 14th. The new iPhone will come equipped with a dual-core A5 processor, dual CDMA / GSM and will include Siri voice control. Prices after the break. Tim Cook started off the show with some interesting statistics: There have been six million Lion downloads to since it’s launch “the MacBook Pro and iMac are the number one best selling notebook and desktop in the United... Read Full Story

Designer Joseph Dumary has come up with this striking design for a Samsung 3DTV system with a variety of interchangeable screens according to the space available or the use to which you’re putting it. The screen uses the latest generation of transparent AMOLED+ panels making this the thinnest and lightest screen ever. Each sub-pixel is a diode of red,  green or blue. Therefore, instead of displaying the usual black areas, they allow light to pass which allows the viewer to see through the... Read Full Story

If your current audio set-up isn’t ‘real-world’ enough for you LG thinks it has the answer: the HX906TX cinema sound system. Its ten speakers, it is claimed, deliver ‘truly 360-degree sound’ that’s designed to make you feel as if you’re in amongst the audio (even if you’re huddled in a chair that’s crammed in a corner of the room). LG has used a ‘DSP algorithm’ to push the sound vertically and horizontally using ’3D reflectors’ extending the audio in a way that fills in the gaps in the... Read Full Story

Long ago, in Dutch Fairy Land, there lived a young mermaid who was very proud of her good looks. She was one of a family of mere or lake folks dwelling not far from the sea. Her home was a great pool of water that was half salt and half fresh, for it lay around an island near the mouth of a river. Part of the day, when the sea tides were out, she splashed and played, dived and swam in the soft water of the inland current. When the ocean heaved and the salt water rushed in, the mermaid floated... Read Full Story

This jet-powered rescue suit uses pressurized water to manoeuvre the wearer into position to carry out rescue missions. The suit is inspired by the JetLev concept (pictured below) which uses three high-pressure columns of water to generate thrust. The Rescue Pack is comparatively smaller and lighter but more manoeuvrable and the designer, Jurmol Yao speculates that it could be used to carry out rescues where conventional lifeboats are not practicable. As you can see from the images... Read Full Story

Microwave ovens, on the whole, still suffer from in-the-box thinking and as a result they compromise kitchen design in numerous ways: They occupy counter top space, it can be difficult to find one that matches your kitchen design and even more space is required to accommodate the opening front door. Anoush Mortazavi has redesigned the traditional microwave to occupy a standard 600mm wide draw which keeps the device clear of the work top even when opening the door. The unit has a glass... Read Full Story

As buildings employ more intensive engineering they become more dangerous to demolish. Enter stage left the Cynomy demolition vehicle designed by S. Dogan Sekercioglu who has taken the human out of the bulldozer in order to make demolition safer. Such a remote-controlled dozer could be useful in the decommissioning of nuclear power stations, chemical plants and sewers. But what makes the Cynomy particularly useful in these environments is the array of tools that can be added to the... Read Full Story

The Celox, Samsung’s 4G LTE version of its Galaxy S2, while superficially resembling the S2 differs in many ways, represents a serious beefing up of the spec for the Galaxy family. And this may be a problem for Apple, currently gestating the iPhone 5 and with existing models about a generation behind current Android super-phones, because it looks like the competition is about to get a lot tougher. Screens The Samsung Celox will sport a 4.5-inch Super AMOLED display with a resolution... Read Full Story

Golden Antioch lay like a jewel at a mountain's throat. Wide, intersecting streets, each nearly four miles long, granite-paved, and marble-colonnaded, swarmed with fashionable loiterers. The gay Antiochenes, whom nothing except frequent earthquakes interrupted from pursuit of pleasure, were taking the air in chariots, in litters, and on foot; their linen clothes were as riotously picturesque as was the fruit displayed in open shop-fronts under the colonnades, or as the blossom on the trees in... Read Full Story