Transforming Robot Is More Than Meets the Eye, Turns into a Car

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Remember when playing with Transformers took something called “imagination?” No more! Soon Transformers — err, I mean Brave Robots — will do all the work themselves.

Orangutans at Miami Zoo Use iPads to Communicate

Jungle Island

The 8-year-old twins love their iPad. They draw, play games and expand their vocabulary. Their family’s teenagers also like the hand-held computer tablets, too, but the clan’s elders show no interest.

Virgin Mobile and Boost’s Not-Quite-New 4G Android Phones Make Prepaid More Palatable

Virgin Mobile's Evo V 4G -- formerly known as Sprint's Evo 3D

Sprint’s prepaid brands get two of Sprint’s 2011 phones at a reasonable price.

Doro Makes a Smartphone for Seniors

Jared Newman / TIME.com

Tech specs and fancy features take a backseat to oversized buttons and a dead-simple interface in the Doro PhoneEasy 740, a phone built with older folks in mind.

HP Introduces New Ultrabooks and Sleekbooks (But Let’s Just Call Them Notebooks, Shall We?)

New HP Ultrabooks and Sleekbooks

HP has a thin-and-light notebook for almost everybody. But you can’t tell the Ultrabooks from the Sleekbooks from the notebooks.

Android Update Delays: AT&T CEO Passes the Buck...to Google

AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson

Who’s responsible for slow updates for Android phones? AT&T’s head honcho says that Google ultimately calls the shots.

Move Over, Roomba: Multilingual Cocorobo Can Vacuum and Talk

Sharp

Cocorobo is the new robot from Sharp that will finally allow you to become friends with a household appliance.

WatchESPN Comes to Comcast’s Video Customers

ESPN

WatchESPN, the online and mobile version of Disney’s popular sports TV network, was activated Tuesday for most of Comcast’s 22 million video subscribers.

Droid Incredible 4G LTE for Verizon: A Smartphone for Normal Hands

Jared Newman / TIME.com

There’s nothing cutting-edge about HTC’s Droid Incredible 4G LTE, a smartphone that’s coming to Verizon Wireless in a few weeks. Yet the new Droid Incredible might become one of Verizon’s most desirable phones, simply because you can hold it comfortably in one hand.

Samsung Focus 2 Continues AT&T's Windows Phone Love Affair

Jared Newman / TIME.com

At a time when no other wireless carriers are launching Windows Phones, AT&T has announced the Samsung Focus 2, the carrier’s third new Windows Phone in less than two months.

Color’s Video-Sharing App: Now Optimized for Verizon

Color

The company best known for being well-funded and getting off to a bumpy start is partnering with Verizon to deliver better live video from smartphones.