An alarming article about the human costs of our gadget lust. While we won't pretend that we'd stop buying gadgets anytime soon, this investigative piece is an urgent reminder that we should demand higher labor standards from Apple & Co.

“In the next six months, we plan to market a tablet of the highest quality", says Google chairman Eric Schmidt. So far, real alternatives to the iPad have been rare, or rather non-existent. Let's see if Google can pull it off.