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Digital Planet: 22/06/2010

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22/06/2010

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3D TVs at CEDIA; COMPUTEX in Taipei; Children, learning and Yoocasa; Afridoctor

One of the biggest 3D televisions goes on sale; Tablet PCs wow punters in Taiwan; Technology allows multilingual pupils to learn a single language together; Afridoctor – the doctor in your pocket

Gareth Mitchell visits the CEDIA Home entertainment conference and resists the temptation to purchase one of the world’s biggest 3D televisions, whilst a tiny projector catches his eye.


In the aftermath of the COMPUTEX TAIPEI festival in Taiwan, Cindy Sui reports from Taipei on the growing excitement over Tablet PCs.


Jonathan Kent reports on the latest development in tools to help children communicate with parents in another country, and yet another tool that is helping teachers teach a single unifying language in a class of multilingual pupils.


Gareth Mitchell visits the team behind a new mobile device called Afridoctor – an application that is being described as the doctor in your pocket.

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