Motorola’s Moto X smartphone will delight you something you don’t say about smartphones too often. When was the last time you were truly delighted by your smartphone?I mean, when was the last time your smartphone did something so surprising that you smiled? Or you discovered a feature and actually thought, “Okay that was awesome?”

It’s been a while, right? That’s because today, most smartphones are exactly the same. They are all lightning-fast. They all have great screens. They all have the same apps. They all have good cameras. They all have 4G connections. They’re all easy to use. Heck, they all pretty much look the same.
That’s what makes the new Moto X so wonderful -it’s not just another smartphone. It’s your smartphone. You can make the Moto X fit your needs.
Do you want your phone to be quiet during meetings and automatically respond with a custom text? You can do that. Or maybe you want it to automatically detect when you’re driving and read your texts aloud? It’ll do that if you want it to.
You can even set your Moto X to detect when you’re home and then announce who’s calling when your phone rings. That means you can leave your phone charging on the kitchen counter and you don’t have to get up from your comfortable living room chair when your phone rings if you’re screening your calls.
And the Moto X will look exactly the way you want too. With Motorola’s online Moto Maker tool, you can mix and match any number of combinations of colours and materials. You want leather back and a white screen? How about your laser-etched signature on a sea-foam green back with a black front? Or maybe you want your phone to be made out of wood. All those options are available with the new Moto X.
My favourite Moto X feature lets you set a unique name for your phone. Mine is “munchkin,” which is some crazy name my two-year old niece suggested. (Why not?) So I just yell “munchkin,” and my phone will do whatever I tell it to. It’s fantastic while driving-I don’t need to touch anything. Beyond letting you customize it, the Moto X also comes with a handful of smart extra features.
When you take the phone out of your pocket, your phone will display the time-you don’t have to hit any buttons. When you get a call, just wave at your phone to silence it. To snap a photo, just shake your phone-even if it’s locked. And when you get a notification, you can tap your phone to get a quick glance at who’s trying to bug you.
Other phones have better cameras (the Moto X’s is fine but not outstanding like the Samsung Galaxy S5, Microsoft Lumia or the Apple iPhone. Other phones have better speakers the Moto X’s are loud and clear, but no one beats the HTC M8. There are better sized phones to the Moto X’s 5.2-inch screen is a bit too big for my puny hands.
But other than the iPhone, the Moto X is the only phone that will delight you on a consistent basis.
That’s why the Moto X is the best Android smartphone ever made.

LASER PROJECTORS PROMISE TO DELIVER BRIGHTER 3D FILMS
This week for the first time ever a cinema audience watched a laser-projected 3D movie at the same brightness as they would have seen the 2D version.
Christie’s new, 6P digital light projection system may cost 10 times more than traditional 2D projectors, but it sports one projector for each eye.
Recent box office figures indicate that audiences in theatres preferred to see the 3D version of a movie back in 2009, but now favour 2D. The new system aims to make the 3D experience brighter, crisper and clearer.
Christie also claims the new system is more comfortable to watch because it has got rid of the polarisation used in 99% of 3D cinema systems.
The old technique involved using a single projector to beam two rapidly alternating video streams, each captured at a slightly different perspective to the action.
Polarisation filters in the 3D glasses worn by the viewer then separated the streams so that each eye saw a different one, delivering a sense of depth.
But a side-effect of this method was that the film appeared darker than it would do in 2D.
By contrast, the new system uses two projectors to send the separate images at the same time, allowing both versions to be brighter before they are separated by a new type of glasses. An added benefit is that there appears to be fewer flickers.
Rather than using polarisation to separate the images, the new system depends on lasers that use different mixes of light wavelengths to create each colour seen on screen. Each of the glasses’ two lenses is customised to only allow the wavelengths shown by either one or the other projector through.
Thus each eye gets a full projector’s worth of light at the same time.