Ashton Kutcher Must Be Stopped (Before He Corrupts Our Laptops)

Ashton Kutcher Must Be Stopped (Before He Corrupts Our Laptops)

It’s a little-known fact that celebrity Ashton Kutcher a kickstand here, a bigger battery there. But now, the chisel-cheeked entrepreneur has twisted Lenovo’s latest tablets to his own foul aims: the new Yoga Tablet 2 Pro has a built-in projector. And a subwoofer. And a 13-inch, 2560 x 1440 screen. It’s a goddamn miniature movie theatre, complete with a tiny Ashton to show you around the place.

Ashton Kutcher Must Be Stopped (Before He Corrupts Our Laptops)

Ashton Kutcher Must Be Stopped (Before He Corrupts Our Laptops)

Sure, it’s only a run-of-the-mill Android tablet otherwise, with a quad-core 1.8GHz Intel Atom processor, 32GB of storage, and a 9600mAh battery rated for 15 hours (or three in projector mode), but it doesn’t take much to corrupt impressionable youth, no? Would you want Ashton to babysit your kids with a movie beamed from this $US499 portable projector? I thought not.

Ashton Kutcher Must Be Stopped (Before He Corrupts Our Laptops)

And that’s before you consider that the Yoga Tablet 2 Pro isn’t alone: it’s merely the flagship for an entire new series of Ashton-inspired machines. Each of the four additional Yoga Tablet 2 devices has a hole cut into the kickstand so you can hang it on the wall like the world’s most awkward picture frame. Each has USB-OTG so you can use them to charge your phone.

Ashton Kutcher Must Be Stopped (Before He Corrupts Our Laptops)

(Why four models? Because you’ve got your choice of Android or Windows on either an 8-inch or 10-inch screen, and because the $US399 10-inch Windows model comes with a snap-on magnetically attached Bluetooth keyboard in an attempt to seem all Surface Pro-like. $US249 for 8-inch Android, $US299 for 10-inch Android or 8-inch Windows.)

Ashton Kutcher Must Be Stopped (Before He Corrupts Our Laptops)

Who knows what horrors Ashton might come up with next? I don’t even want to imagine what he might do with our precious ThinkPads. And remember: it’s only a matter of time before Lenovo owns Motorola too. Sure, the company will tell you it’s all based on user research, but we know the truth.


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