More details emerge on Google’s plans for its mystery barges

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Although Google’s mysterious barges right now look like large floating metal slabs, the company envisions eventually turning them into “unprecedented artistic structures” that will have around a dozen “fish fin” sails and will float majestically through city harbors. SFGate has uncovered some documents filed with the city of San Francisco that explain how the Google barges will be “temporary technology exhibit spaces” that will help drive foot traffic to the city’s waterfront area. Google even envisions the barges as being sort of metaphysical spaces that will inspire “conversation about how everything is connected — shorebirds, me, you, the sea, the fog and much more.” An artist’s rendering of what the magical barges will look like when completed follows below.

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HTC Sense 5.5 Screenshots emerge

 

The next version of HTC Sense seems to be leaking out onto the web quite a bit, and yet more screenshots have now made their way onto servers across the planet. The new version contains a lot of features that already in version 5 but are currently disabled. The new version will let you enable or disable features like BlinkFeed, plus there’s an improved keyboard, more camera options, additional BlinkFeed categories and additional topics.

Bugs have also ben fixed and it’s expected that this new version will arrive at about the same time as the HTC One Max.

More shots in our gallery below..

HTC One tablet photos emerge… Or maybe not..

HTC have never really succeeded when it comes to tablets. The mildly successful HTC Flyer was getting long in the tooth when it got it’s update from Gingerbread to Honeycomb (Android 3.0), and there hasn’t been a lot to speak of since. This morning we spotted what appeared to be a leaked image of an all-new HTC tablet.

It looks just like the brilliant HTC One has morphed into a tablet and our hearts were all aflutter. We really want to see HTC re-enter the tablet market, and this looked like a great device to do that with…

..however..

Although it is a real device, it’s not actually made by HTC at all. It looks like this might all be a case of mistaken identity, or possibly a website somewhere looking for hits. It is in fact the Ramos K1, and you can buy one if you want. They’re not too pricey and it can be yours for a little over $159..

Via – SIM Only Radar