by Jay Garrett on May 25, 2009
The Palm Pre is believed to have been nabbed by O2 as an exclusive when the smartphone arrives on these shores later this year.
Which clever caller you choose is up to you, some gorgeous person has already staked her claim, but it looks like the network is already settled.
The Palm Pre, will be making its debut appearance in the US early next month – if you’re thinking about being the first to own one in the UK don’t even think about getting your import on: even an unlocked one won’t work on a UK network.
You’re gonna have to wait ’til later in the year, when O2 will be bringing a GSM flavoured Palm Pre to the table as an exclusive – just like they did with the iPhone all in time for the crimbo rush.
O2 has refused to confirm the reports – but if it has managed to bag the Pre as well as keeping the iPhone it should be a bumper year for O2 indeedy!
A very clever Palm and the 3rd Generation iPhone makes O2 look very good it should be well prepared to do battle with all the Android phones lining up for rivals.
There’s still no word on pricing, but with US cost coming in at $199 (£130) up front for a two year contract.
I don’t think that the Palm Pre is going to exactly be the cheaper alternative to the iPhone.
More when I get it 
by Jay Garrett on November 26, 2008
Wakamaru is soon to become household name rather than a household servant.
The domestic droid designed and built by Mitsubishi Heavy Industry stands 3 feet tall, and weighs about 30kg. It was released in 2005 and costs around £9,000. It can greet guests and provide information like weather forecasts but soon will be tredding rolling the boards.
Tuesday marked the theatrical debut for the bot, which appeared onstage alongside really-real actors in a play that’s being billed as the first robot-human artistic collaboration.
Hataraku Watashi (“I, Worker”), by playwright Oriza Hirata, focuses on a couple who own two housekeeping robots, one of which loses its motivation to work.
The 20 minute production took place at Japan’s Osaka University (c’mon – where else?) where Hirata is also a visiting professor at the Centre of the Study of Communication-Design.
The performance was played in front of the media ahead of a possible full-scale public run in the next year or so.
Hirata and the rest of the project team wrote special software that lets the robots move and deliver the right lines.
The robot is primarily meant as a companion for seniors and the disabled. Using a combo of a laser and cameras it’s able to track and identify people, and recognises approximately 10,000 words necessary for daily life and now possibly an acting career.
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