Good news for fans of new tablets that look a bit like iPads but which are slightly different to existing ones: Toshiba has a new tablet, and it’s slightly different to another Toshiba tablet that also looks a bit like an iPad. The new one is the AT300SE

Some tech firms look at the iPad and think: “if this were a bit smaller and a lot cheaper, it’d be great”. Not Toshiba, for whom size clearly matters: faced with a market of seven- and ten-inch tablets, including some of its own, Toshiba decided to go even bigger

Toshiba’s also going for the lucrative mermaid market: it’s built a waterproof tablet that you can drop into a fish tank without killing all the inhabitants – and you can charge it without making anything go all explody

At just 7.7mm thick and 558g it makes the iPad 2 look like it needs a trip to the gym, but is its beauty more than (thin) skin deep?