Samsung ATIV Q, Video on Instagram and Microsoft backtracks on

Just what the heck is the Samsung ATIV Q? Well, it’s a bit of everything: a 13.3in laptop that can swiftly convert to a tablet or sort-of desktop and runs both Windows 8 and Android Jelly Bean 4.2.2. Powered by Intel’s new Core i5 Haswell chip, the ATIV Q will purportedly deliver nine hours of on-the-go battery life, which is mighty impressive when you consider the screen boasts an incredibly high resolution of 3200 x 1800 pixels. This screen works with multi-touch, of course, but there’s also a Galaxy Note-style S-Pen smart stylus thrown in. There’s 128GB of SSD storage and 4GB of RAM, all squeezed into a package 13.9mm thick and 1.29kg in weight. Instagram has made the move into video clips with Video on Instagram, an option that’ll be integrated directly into the mobile app. It’ll allow you to take up to fifteen seconds of video, apply one of thirteen special new video filters to it, then select your own “cover photo” from any point in the clip. So there are some differences to Vine, the Twitter-owned mobile video app that this new development seems intended as a reaction to. When Microsoft announced that the console would require users to connect to the Internet once per day in order to play any games at all, and that used or borrowed games would likely require a fee to play, the public (and to a large extent the press) reacted with horror and bemusement. Microsoft baking such a system into its console seemed a move designed to solely benefit money-grubbing publishers. Developed by a team of researchers from Harvard University and The University of Illinois, the battery is made of a nanoparticle-filled paste, which is printed into two interlocking comb-like shapes by a custom 3D printer with a millimetre-wide nozzle.  Every time you see Don Draper cheerfully hop into his car after downing a whiskey or several in Mad Men, it’s a reminder of just how far we’ve come – drink driving is totally beyond the pale nowadays. Now Tokyoflash has come to the aid of the inebriated with its latest bonkers timepiece – a breathalyzer watch that lets you check just how much you’ve imbibed.