It feels like the whole world is holding its breath for the Apple tablet. But maybe we’ve all been dreaming about the wrong device. This is Courier, Microsoft’s astonishing take on the tablet.

Courier is a real device, and we’ve heard that it’s in the “late prototype” stage of development. It’s not a tablet, it’s a booklet. The dual 7-inch (or so) screens are multitouch, and designed for writing, flicking and drawing with a stylus, in addition to fingers. They’re connected by a hinge that holds a single iPhone-esque home button. Statuses, like wireless signal and battery life, are displayed along the rim of one of the screens. On the back cover is a camera, and it might charge through an inductive pad, like the Palm Touchstone charging dock for Pre.

How rather cool! No doubt there will be those that 'diss' the product because it imitates a book, but hell, its different and kinda cool!

And it would seem the Microsoft backrooms have outdone Apple - with the rumoured for how long now? Apple Tablet. The Courier has some very neat features, and comes as part of the novel concepts Microsoft have been developing, including the Tabletop. Yet to prove itself technically and to the market, this might be an interesting bun-fight between the two monolithic organisations.

I guess, if nothing else, Apple, as they sometimes do, could always take a look at Courier and then start work on the MacTablet! ;)

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FACEBOOK makes you sharper but Twitter makes you thicker, a psychologist has said.

The social networking site boosts a part of intelligence that is vital to success in life, while tweeting away may have the opposite effect.

Keeping up to date with Facebook may have the same effect as playing video war games and solving Sudoku, said Dr Tracy Alloway of Scotland's University of Stirling.

It hones the ability to remember information and to use it, known as "working memory".

So it appears that I am just little bit thicker than a whole lot of other people! Facebook has never really been my thing - heck - I still only have about 5 people connected! As for the multitude of websites, images and quips my few hundred connected twitter-friends often share - I guess it just doesn't add up.

Consider me the dummy my Facebook Smartypants's!

Sylvestor
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Third dimension ... Sony's 3D TV prototype at the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers conference and exhibition in Sydney / Courier-Mail

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BREAK out your TV-watching goggles. The next big thing in home cinema is 3D and it could arrive in a big way next year.

With more and more feature films being made in 3D, Hollywood studios are lobbying to bring the full immersive experience into lounge rooms, and TV manufacturers are striving to meet those demands.

What are we? Back to the Future of 1955??? 3D is just a tad passe' in my view and until holographivision becomes a reality - really, what is the point of this?

The basic premise of the technology has not changed in 50 years. This is not a good thing. Money should be invested in projected vision entertainment for the home, not just a means of bringing cinema into the home the same way it is delivered in theatres.

Why do our bigshot entertainment and tech houses insist on focussing on reinvention...where is the new stuff? where is the future?? Stop taking us back in time please.

Sylvestor
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