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| Top 10 Tech This Week [PICS] | | Saturday, December 10, 2011 5:38 PM | Charlie White |
|  If you'd like to fly like a bird, swim like a dolphin, play drums on your chest and own a robot that might someday own you, you've come to the right place. It's time for the Top 10 Tech This Week, blowing you away with the best and brightest, the craziest and scariest, the most innovative and unbelievable technology introduced in the world over the past seven days. Buckle up, because here we go. |
| 8 Best New Apps This Week [PICS] | | Saturday, December 10, 2011 2:28 PM | Sarah Kessler |
|  With about 500,000 apps in the Apple App Store and an estimated 300,000 apps in the Android Market, finding the gems among the virtual haystack can be full time job. The good news is that it's our full time job. We've trekked through the overly frivolous, the ugly and the downright impractical in our search for the 8 best new apps this week, and we've gathered them together in the slideshow above. We hope you enjoy this week's top picks. Thumbnail image courtesy of Flickr, Jorge Quinteros |
| Motorola DROID4 Spotted on DroidDoes Site [PICS] | | Saturday, December 10, 2011 1:51 PM | Pocketnow |
|  It seems that Verizon is preparing its DroidDoes minisite for the arrival of the RAZR-esque Motorola DROID4, although as far as we can tell, the content is not actually live yet (the screenshot is purportedly from the mobile site). While not much about the 4 remains unknown save for a price and release date, the near-final looking appearance of the alleged promo page would seem to at least indicate that a launch is close at hand. Coming just about six months after the DROID3's debut, the Gingerbread 2.3.5-powered 4 offers a sleeker form factor along with LTE connectivity, and steps up the rest of the internals somewhat as well: the dual-core processor has been bumped a few hundred megahertz to 1.2GHz, while the DDR2 RAM clocks in at 1GB. We'll almost certainly see the DROID4 hit stores before the end of the month, but as with the Galaxy Nexus, rumored ship dates keep coming and going. The latest leak from Droid-Life points to a release on the 22nd, so we can't really be sure if there are delays at play here or not. Thanks, Anonymous |
| iScreen: Apple TV Imagined with Magnificent Curved Screen [PICS] | | Saturday, December 10, 2011 1:09 PM | Charlie White |
|  Whenever CiccaresDesign dreams up a mockup of an upcoming Apple product (as it did with the no-show iPhone 5), the results are invariably interesting. Federico Ciccarese's fantasy of what he calls the "iScreen" is no exception, showing a spectacular curved glass display whose design tips its hat to the iMac but adds a couple of design flourishes that might be the envy of Apple itself. Let's emphasize up front: This is not a leak of an Apple design, but it's a concept of what the rumored Apple TV might look like by the time it becomes reality, possibly sometime between now and 2013. It was created by CiccaresDesign for MacRumors. However, it's not entirely based on fantasy. Given Steve Jobs's tantalizing aside to author Walter Isaacson as the two worked on the late CEO's biography -- where Jobs boasted that he had "cracked" the secret to television, envisioning an integrated, wirelessly synched TV set with "the simplest user interface you could imagine" -- an Apple television could very well be in the offing. Beyond that, another one of the latest obsessions of Steve Jobs was with curved glass, as seen in his plans for Apple's spectacular flying-saucer-like HQ. As you can see, that idea was worked into this design to maximum effect. Click through the gallery, and you'll see an imagined embedding of the Apple iPhone 4S's new digital assistant, Siri, where the new TV might be able to respond to your voice commands, and perhaps even anticipate what sorts of shows you'd like to watch. These designs are fun to admire, but let's keep in mind that Apple hasn't announced any such products. Even so, if Apple were to release a TV packed with computerized goodness, lorded over by some kind of advanced Siri goddess, do you think it would look sort of like this? |
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