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All technology turns up devices that rather than being just nuts and bolts they become friends and the boxy old HTC Advantage is just one of those.

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Satnavs have stripped the idea of being lost from the language

 

When the UK’s mainstream media dwell, hesitantly, upon technology (in between its worthier deliberations on the weighty issues of the day – such as which football player has slept with who, or its first hand knowledge of the working of the minds of politicians and princes) it is only to remark on which technology you must have.

You will seldom hear the mainstream stop to ponder on the significance of a device like a mobile phone or the Satnav – or what an unusual thing a international conference call is.

Which is a shame because the field is rich.

Now its easy to know your way around

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A handheld mixing desk

Fifty years ago the road to pop super-stardom started with a practice session in a pub, soon it will happen in a studio on the internet and we could all be doing it.

Rather than coming from towns like Liverpool or London according to some of the music industry’s top gurus the Beatles and Rolling Stones of the future will be drawn via the internet from all corners of the world and could even use their mobile phones as mixing desks.

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The system, which uses autostereoscopic display technology, will be the first time that 3D technology has made it to a mobile for commercial use, and is capable of full resolution, according to Bill Bryan, technical manager of 3M’s St Paul, Minnesota-based Display and Graphics lab.

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JAPANESE electronics giant Sharp is to unveil the world’s first commercial use of 3D technology on a computer screen – a development that could bode well for Britain. Sharp plans to launch a notebook computer later this month with a screen that can use conventional 2D technology and a new system showing 3D images.

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