Hasta La Gadget!

Tweet a message @talayrobot and something magical happens. An ST Robotics arm whirs to life inside Sony Music’s London HQ and starts transcribing your words of wisdom unto a glamorously lit whiteboard — in the finest handwriting font its designers could find! Best part is that the whole thing gets filmed and the video is sent back to you within a matter of minutes, equipped with an audio clip from Sony’s Talay Riley. Yes, it’s a promotional stunt, but it’s also undeniably one of the coolest intersections of robotics and social networking we’ve yet seen. Skip past the break for some video examples or get tweeting and create your own.

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If the name UberTwitter sounds familiar, that’ll be because it’s one of the more popular mobile Twitter clients, accounting for 10 million tweets each day from BlackBerry users around the globe. And now it’s also available on the iPhone. Citing the “growing dominance” of Apple’s one-device-to-rule-them-all mobile platform, the UberTwitter crew has decided to expand its offering with a new open beta, which is available to download now. The major distinguishing feature being touted is something called UberView, which allows access to links within tweets without exiting the app or opening up a new window within it. Looks a pretty slick idea, but there are still some early issues to be ironed out — as with all beta iterations — and a final v1.0 should be ready to do battle with Twitter’s official app by the middle of December.

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This week in Twitter news revolved around a lot of dudes. We had Prince William proposing to his fiancée, Harry Potter being all dark and mysterious, the Beatles making their music available on iTunes, and People Magazine announcing its Sexiest Man Alive. If you missed out on all of this bro-tastic gossip, we’ve rounded up some of this week’s top trends on Twitter so that you can act like you know what your friends are talking about this weekend. 

Here are the top trending Twitter topics for the week ending on November 19:

1. Prince William / Royal Wedding
Prince William, the second-in-line-to-the-British-throne hunk, announced his engagement to Kate Middleton. Millions of Tiger Beat readers’ hearts were broken with this news. Also, the wedding day may even be called a public holiday. Only time will tell. #RoyalWedding (Photo Credit: NYTimes.com.)

2. Slap Yourself
This week, people were explaining situations that should result in people slapping themselves. For example, #SlapYourself if you’re following this meme.

3. Harry Potter

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 1, was released today. The thousands of people that waited online last night for the midnight showing might be interested in some of these Harry Potter-themed gifts. #HarryPotter

4. Ryan Reynolds
People Magazine dubbed Ryan Reynolds the sexiest man alive–well, at least for 2010. #RyanReynolds

5. The Beatles / Apple / On iTunes
Lucy in the Sky with Steve Jobs? Apple finally announced a deal to offer the Fab Four’s music collection on iTunes. #Beatles

Check out the next five Twitter trending topics after the jump!

Perhaps it’s no secret that the world’s greatest golf player
has joined the world’s most popular micro-blogging service. He actually signed
up for an account on June 26^th. On that day, he tweeted twice, once
to plug his Facebook account and once to plug his Twitter profile–you know, the
one he was tweeting from.

But now, after more than four months, it seems that the scandal-ridden
golfer is finally ready to make a go of it. About an hour ago, Woods tweeted, “What’s
up everyone. Finally decided to try out twitter,” from his @TigerWoods account.

Of course, as celebrity and non-celebrity users alike have
discovered, people sometimes end up revealing way more about themselves on the
site than they ever intended. I wouldn’t be too worry for Woods. After all,
what’s he got to hide?

The ultimate sign of celebrity in 2010? When your Twitter mistake causes a minor pop cultural sensation. About halfway through the summer, three-quarters term Alaskan governor Sarah Palin made a linguistic mistake on the micro-blogging site–something politicians have been doing since well before Twitter became something more than a nonsense word itself.

In July, Palin tweeted the following,

Ground Zero Mosque supporters: doesn’t it stab you in the heart, as it does ours throughout the heartland? Peaceful Muslims, pls refudiate.

Critics quickly pounced on the made up word “refudiate,” which it seemed was something of an amalgamation of “refute” and “repudiate.” Palin pulled the word, replacing it with the former–which, honestly, didn’t make all that much sense in context either.

Supporters, on the other hand, embraced the made up word. Vindication, it seems, is theirs. The Oxford English Dictionary has deemed “refudiate” its “Word of the Year.” The Twitter-friendly word joined such terms as retweet, Webisode, crowdsourcing, gleek, and nom nom.

That’s what you get for misunderestimating the Shakespeare of our time.

Last year’s Word of the Year went to another tech-friendly term: unfriend.