This is the purported Zune 2 collection. Sure it is, as in: no it is not. Here is why:With a steady stream of sexy touchscreen PMPs rolling in likes waves lapping the pacific coast of the US, going this way is more yawn-inducing than the original Zune. Just check out a few contenders.We […]

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Humans aren’t perfect, therefore human waiting staff aren’t perfect—as you’ll know if you’ve ever had hot soup spilled on you, or the wrong meal brought out. To err is human, after all. However, diners in Nuremberg, Germany, won’t have to put up with imperfection anymore because a new restaurant there is staffed entirely by robots. Check out a video of the future of dining after the jump.

You select your meal from touchscreens that are installed on every table, and it arrives via a spiral slide a few minutes later. Is it more convenient? Perhaps. But it’s only a matter of time before we just arrive at a restaurant and have a drip installed, or pop a food pill. I’ll stick with tradition here, I think, and fight the growing trend for ever faster food. However, if bipedal robots were to swagger around a restaurant, wearing little bow-ties and talking in ludicrously stereotyped French accents, that would be another matter. [Sci Fi Tech]

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Hewlett-Packard has presented a low-budget laptop named Presario V6500Z, it has an affordable price tag of $500 after $200 in instant savings which are automatically processed while making an order on the HP online store.Besides the 3 choices available for the operative system: Windows Vista Home Basic, Home Premium, and Vista Business, there are a […]

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The silent, yet eerily palpable rivalry betwixt LG and Apple continues, secretly, growing subtlety with every new phone release (as you can see in the Windows Mobile-based KS20). Or maybe these two companies just love this design — certainly Nokia is fond of it. It’s hard to say really, but what isn’t hard to say is that these phones do look alike, and there’s no way around it. Please forgive the German showgirl for the upside down iPhone handling — they haven’t had the fortune of holding them here. After the break, be sure and note the UI of LG’s KU990 — the company’s other widescreen touch phone — and its familiar look. One thing’s for sure: they all smudge the same.

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