An article by John Gapper in the Financial Times argues that US tech companies ignored the netbook as they didn’t want to cannibalize the market for larger laptops and PCs. As he charts the rise of the hardware, Gapper says they ignored signals of netbook use in Japan and the early indication…

As part of its promotion of the Core 2 Duo processor, Intel has released a series of viral videos in China under the slogan: “If You’re Going to Play, Play Big” (玩，就玩大的). One of the more recent videos features a gamer imagining himself using a construction crane to play a massive real-life game of Tetris.

Another viral video in the series plays on the same larger-than-life theme, but this time with the game Puzzle Bobble.

[via Youku Buzz]

The following video is absolutely mind blowing. Intel and a group of academic researchers are is working on a programmable matter, a shape shifting material that can take on any shape, physical property or color that will rapidly transform into literally anything. It works by moving around microscopic glass spheres called catoms that have processing power and electricity generating capabilities built in. And although they have created small working prototypes in the lab, unfortunately, the video is an animation, a concept design of what they are hoping to achieve. If and when programmable matter becomes a reality, it will be [...]

China who?