Toshiba’s Android Chihira Aico is Ready to Work and Play

With delicate mannerisms, and an even tone, she explains her origins and goals. She’d like to be a newsreader one day. Or a cheerleader. Perhaps dabble in counselling. The crowd before her is transfixed, studying her every facial expression. It is because these facial expressions and her bodily movements are created using 43 actuators and are the result of a Japanese technology company’s research. Her name is Chihira Aico and she is Toshiba’s Communication Android.

The 5 Best Smartphones Right Now

Thanks to some intense competition in the smartphone space, upgrading your handset isn’t as easy as it used to be. Not too long ago it was iPhone, Samsung or bust. But with compelling hardware efforts from Google, LG, and others, there are a ton more great options when it comes time to choose a new smartphone.

19 of the Best Android Apps From April 2015

April was a busy month for Android apps with the first proper arrival of Meerkat for Android devices, several new ways to navigate your presentation slides, the Chrome Dev browser and a number of other new arrivals to the Play Store, it can be hard to keep up.

Luckily for you, we’ve pulled together a list of the best new and updated apps from across the whole month. It’s split across a few pages to make it easier to read, but if you’d rather view it on one page, you can do that here.

Yallo

Yallo’s Android app is for people who make a lot of phone calls, but need a little extra functionality, like automatic redialling if the call drops and recording and transcription options.

You get 400 minutes for free to get you going, but will need to pay for call time beyond this if you want to make non-Yallo-to-Yallo calls.