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If that cheap Android tablet seems too good to be true, it probably is. CNET’s Donald Bell shows you what to look for when evaluating whether a budget tablet is a good deal, or a lemon.

Well, Shibuya has its own banana vending machine. How about a banana building?

Ginza’s Sony Building is currently hosting its annual Art Wall event. Every year since 2007 it has hosted the results of a public competition to decorate the side of the showroom with something dramatic and fun.

2010 was won by Yumiko Kanda, whose banana was recently adorning the whole building and injecting some much-needed positivity into these grim retail times. The next of her creations is a roast chicken, which replaced the fruit a few days ago and will be exhibited until Christmas Day. Shame it’s not a turkey.

It’s been almost two years since the XIM2 finally became available, letting Xbox 360 gamers bring some additional inputs to their gaming — namely a keyboard and a mouse. Now its successor is nearing availability and its final form has been unleashed to the world. This version is considerably more advanced than its predecessor, sporting a little LCD for easier programming and some very advanced game-specific tuning called “Smart Translators.” These handle various settings for various games, automatically deleting the various sized and various shaped dead zones employed by various shooters, demonstrated in a video below. No price has been announced yet, but we’re guessing it’ll cost a good bit more than the (now discontinued) XIM2’s $149.99.

[Thanks, K. Green]

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Sam Cohen conceived of the neutron bomb as a way of morally killing large populations during warfare, while leaving everything else intact. It didn’t work. He later claimed to have been inspired by traumatizing motherly hygiene. And now he’s dead. More »

Wonder why Motorola’s set-top-box business got bundled in with the phones? If we had to guess, it’s probably because Motorola Mobility is making a device that will wirelessly join both. Speaking at the Reuters Global Media Summit, company president Daniel Moloney said that Motorola’s working on a standalone device that will wirelessly sling video to tablets and phones in the home, and will later be integrated directly into new set-top-boxes the company rolls out. “It’s one consumer proposition that will come sooner rather than later,” he told the crowd, suggesting that the device would be available through “service providers” rather than sold off the shelf, and that said providers might charge an additional service fee for its use. Here’s hoping not. Perhaps Qualcomm finally found a buyer for that FLO TV spectrum, though?

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