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Intel has managed to make Moorestown-based phones do an awful lot of things on stage. Multitask, scale photos sans lag, and automatically correct your grammar before it comes out of your mouth. But believe it or not, one thing we haven’t seen the Aava Mobile-built reference design do is play the full PC version of World of Warcraft and / or Quake III (from within Moblin) for over an hour on a full charge. Well, until this week’s Computex event. Peek a couple of videos just past the break if you’re in disbelief, and trust us when we say that it had no issues keep the frames flowing at a comfortable clip. The future is bright, people.

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Aava Mobile’s Intel Moorestown prototype plays World of Warcraft beautifully (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 05 Jun 2010 10:02:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Despite its mobile prowess, Apple sucks at the internet. But surprisingly it’s Microsoft—not Google—that’s best positioned for Our Future in the Cloud. Here’s why. More »

Though the future of the nascent tablet market is anyone’s guess, this year, the main rivalry is between Apple’s iPhone OS and Android, analysts say. pOriginally posted at a href=”http://news.cnet.com/8301-13924_3-20006770-64.html” class=”origPostedBlog”Nanotech – The Circuits Blog/a/p

It may look like a lobotomized coconut and a stray bit of tin foil, but Maurizio Porfiri’s robot fish is something we don’t see often: an attempt to naturally control wildlife. With an electroactive polymer locomotion system designed to mimic the powerful motions of fish leaders, his fake fish can trick schools of real ones to follow. The idea is to one day steer helpless creatures away from dangerous objects like turbines, but there’s still loads of work to do before then — presently, the robot can only swim in two dimensions, and requires a battery to operate. Porfiri’s team at NYU Poly is already researching ways to harvest energy from the water itself, though, and he expects to have his fish powered by waves before long. Watch an early prototype in action after the break.

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If researchers at the University of Leeds, Durham University, and GlaxoSmithKline have their way, some drugs will be custom printed for you at the pharmacy in the near future. Prescription drugs are usually about 99.9 percent filler and 0.1 percent actual medication, so the new method they’re working on would involve printing the active drug onto the surface of a pill in the pharmacy — meaning that drugs could be customized for each person, and multiple drugs could potentially be included in one pill. The process currently only works with about one percent of prescriptions on the market, but they’re moving toward expansion in the near future.

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