"These aren't the droids you're looking for, move along." No, not that type of voice control – we’re talking artificially intelligent gadgets rather than Jedi mind tricks here.

The tech developers of the world would have us believe...

So you want an iPad, you're not into games and all that jazz, but you need convincing that it's going to help you get things done. You've got to justify it somehow, and if you really can use it for "work" then you might just be able to expense it.

We've...