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www.techradar.com Week in Tech VR headsets close to reality as Google Wear arrives for your wrist Morpheus: the god of dreams, a faintly annoying character in The Matrix and soon, something you strap to your face. We're talking about Sony's Project Morpheus, a VR headset for the PS4 that might just change gaming forever. It's a bit rough, says Alex Roth, and there's no sign of a price tag as yet, but the 1080p display has a lot of potential. As for Oculus Rift, it's tantalisingly close to being A Thing You Can Buy. We've had a go on one of the latest developer kit, and we reckon it's "the coolest product in the world right now, and it gets better every time we see it." Rumours suggest a Christmas 2014 launch. We've sent our letters to Santa already. Google had some news for us this week too. The Chromecast TV streamer has hit the UK, and Patrick Goss was quick to put it through its paces. That's not all. Google also took the wraps off Android Wear, its version of Android for smartwatches and other wearable devices. If Samsung's gear-related tomfoolery had convinced you that smartwatches are ugly, think again. The incoming Moto 360 is a genuinely pretty watch that just happens to do the Google Now stuff too. We won't have to wait long to find out more: as Swider says, we can "expect to hear more about Android Wear and see the unveiling of the first Wear apps at the Google IO conference in June." More details will be "on hand", so that's one to, ahem, watch. Read the full story     In this week ■ Week in Tech: VR headsets close to reality as Google Wear arrives for your wrist ■ Talking points: Samsung Galaxy S5 vs Sony Xperia Z2, Chromecast UK release, Project Morpheus, why the new iPhone 5C is a bad buy ■ Competition: WIN! An Xbox One and BT home entertainment package worth over £1,000! ■ The week's best buys: iPad Air, LG G Pad 8.3, Olympus OM-D E0M1 ■ Top 10: Android tablets   Talking points 1 Samsung Galaxy S5 vs Sony Xperia Z2 We're feverishly awaiting our review samples of the Samsung Galaxy S5 and Sony Xperia Z2 – so to help keep you going in this barren period we've pitted these two phones against one another in our early look. Read more       2 Chromecast launches in the UK with iPlayer and Netflix support Google has finally rolled out its Chromecast media streaming device to the UK, streaming the likes of the BBC iPlayer, Netflix and Google's own Play Movies and YouTube to your television for £30. Read more       3 Project Morpheus: what you need to know about Sony's PS4 VR headset Sony took motion controlled gaming to the next level when it unveiled a slick-looking Oculus Rift competitor at its GDC 2014 press conference. Project Morpheus is the name of the electronics company's long-rumoured VR headset for PS4. Read more       4 The new iPhone 5C is a really bad buy Imagine. You're buying something exciting and expensive. The sales person makes you an offer. You can have 1/8 off the sticker price if you agree to just one thing: from time to time, the sales person would come round to your house and punch you in the face.  The new iPhones and iPads are a bit like that. Read more       Competition WIN! An Xbox One and BT home entertainment package worth over £1,000!   To celebrate BT’s new range of products that make it easier to connect your gadgets to the internet, BT has teamed up with TechRadar to give away a full entertainment packag. BT’s range of connectivity products allows you to connect your devices to the internet anywhere in your home. Enter competition   WIN! A Canton DM50 soundbase worth £399 Enter competition       WIN! WIN! A Lytro Field Camera Enter competition       Your tweets this week       The week's best buys iPad Air Want the best tablet on the market? Then get the iPad Air. It's got a stunning design, powerful innards and a superb suite of apps. It's as near to tablet perfection as you're going to get. View offer Read review       LG G Pad 8.3 With a metal body, full HD display and decent innards the G Pad 8.3 is strongest rival to the iPad mini 2. While battery life could be better, LG's tablet doesn't let the side down. View offer Read review       Olympus OM-D E-M1 This camera delivers high quality, correctly exposed images with plenty of detail, good colour and well-controlled noise. The feature set is also impressive the touchscreen well implemented. View offer Read review       Should Twitter drop the @ sign? @Cat_E_Ellis That's going to really mess up browser add-ons like Twitbin that don't show conversation threads.     @OleIChristensen Sounds like a terrible joke!.     @esmith_SA Let's hope this is an early April Fool's joke.       Top   Android tablets If you're looking for a tablet and don't fancy an iPad, then Android is currently the way to go. Here's our ur list of the best Android tablets in the world - regularly updated.   Google Nexus 7       Google Nexus 10       Amazon Kindle Fire HDX 7 View top 10           TechRadar Promotion TechRadar free download: CCleaner 4.09 The longer you use your PC, the more clogged with data it becomes and the slower it performs. You need a dedicated system cleaner to analyse your computer, diagnose problems and optimise your system for improved performance. CCleaner is one such system optimiser, a free download that promises to make your computer faster and more secure. 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