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Laptop Buying Guide 2012: How To Find The Right Laptop For You At what point does a supposed ereader become a tablet? When it has a colour screen for viewing photos and YouTube videos? Built-in MP3 player? Someone needs to have a quick word with Paradigm Shift’s marketing department.
Motorola hasn’t exactly been shy with telling people how many Android phones they’ll be releasing in 2010, so it’s no surprise to hear that they’ll be showing off “a pair of new phones” at next week’s CES.
You just can’t find affordable sick leave cover these days. Turns out that while Steve Jobs was off sick for six months of the year, COO Tim Cook received $US12.3 million in stock for stepping into his shoes. [TUAW]
With the “biggest, most powerful helicopter ever to have gone into production” – Wikipedia says – that’s how. Here you have the mythical Russian Mi-26 sling-loading and taking away a NATO AS532 Cougar, hit in battle in Afghanistan.
I’ve found a new hero. His name is Mark Greenawalt and he uses liquid latex and body paint to turn naked people into Star Wars characters, superheroes and various fantasy creatures. Oh, and he paints lingerie onto Playboy bunnies. Lucky bastard.
The holiday hangover days between Christmas and New Year’s are sort of the year’s remainders to begin with, so it’s a perfectly appropriate time to check out these remainders: Google phones, space probes, misspellings, and one serious party popper.
After his seven Tour de France wins, I thought my man-crush on Lance Armstrong couldn’t get any bigger or creepier. But that’s all changed – today I learned that Lance is an iSlate-obsessed gadget-head just like me.
The early ’00s saw a lot of breathless reporting about the Segway. Steve Jobs endorsed it and Time magazine ran a massive piece with the humbling title “Reinventing The Wheel” – the conclusion of three months of in-depth reportage.
Even as Netflix adds Criterion movies (yes!) to its burgeoning Watch Instantly library, the studios eye their intentions ever more suspiciously, worried Netflix may be sowing the seeds of Hollywood’s destruction. Which could mean fewer movies for us.
