It’s finally here! The new season of Your Brain on Tech has arrived. We’re talking about the best smart phones, playing MAG on PS3 at GameGo Computers, checking out some winter tech, mess around with Google Goggles and offering our take on the infamous iPad!

Check it out, we’ve made some visual changes for each segment and we think you’ll like it. Also we replaced our more dry news segment with a more loose “Current Events” segment which should help keep things moving more quickly. Give us your feedback, what do you think of all the changes we’ve made?

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Apple announced their new tablet computer today, called the iPad. Dubbed as a “magical and revolutionary device,” it somehow manages to be exactly the opposite. The iPad is essentially an oversized iPhone that doesn’t do anything a normal computer — or an iPhone — can’t, except maybe allow the user to read books more conveniently. Apple should change “magical and revolutionary” to “old, rehashed, yet still somewhat convenient under very specific circumstances.”
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