Comprehensive video overview of Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 emerges

The Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 is still a little way from launching but that doesn’t mean we will have to wait for a comprehensive video overview of the device to emerge.

AndroidHD had the chance to spend a day with the Galaxy Tab 10.1, putting together a twelve minute video that demonstrates the Tab’s features and the powerful Android 3.0 (Honeycomb) operating system.

Samsung has admitted that the tablet may be “inadequate” when it launches in the Summer, coming up against the Xoom and the recently launched iPad 2. From what we can see, the Galaxy Tab 10.1 looks to be a good looking and powerful tablet that will ensure Samsung continues to enjoy significant returns from its Galaxy Tab range.

Xbox Live gamers have amassed 4 billion playing hours since launch

We knew that Microsoft’s Xbox Live platform was popular, but not quite as popular as new figures released to Kotaku reveal.

The online service, launching in 2002 on the original Xbox, has helped many a teenager burn through many hours of gameplay. Boosted by popular franchises including Halo, Gears of War and Call of Duty, Xbox Live users have amassed a total of over 4 billion hours of multiplayer gaming in the nine years across two generations of the console.

In 2005, when Microsoft launched the Xbox 360, the company introduced Achievements. Users then gained point-based rewards for completing specific in-game and multiplayer tasks. Since the first achievement was earned, Xbox Live users have now unlocked 6.3 billion achievements from their Xbox 360 games.

The average Gamerscore is 11,286, a number that I am hovering over despite owning an Xbox Live console since launch, and the total number of gamer points amounts to an incredible 176,802,201,383.

Over 20 million people, logging into Xbox Live every day, have helped Microsoft solidify its position as the premiere online gaming platform. With the Kinect flying off the shelves, Xbox Live is only set to grow, providing the company with even more revenue.

[Video] The world’s most uncanny humanoid robot

Prepare yourself for the most uncanny humanoid robot I’ve ever seen.

According to IEEE Spectrum , “It’s not a fake. This is the latest iteration of Geminoid series of ultra-realistic androids, from Kokoro and Hiroshi Ishiguro. Specifically, this is Geminoid DK, which was constructed to look exactly like Associate Professor Henrik Scharfe of Aalborg University in Denmark.”

As my colleague Martin Bryant points out, “The uncanny valley’s being scaled. Slowly.”