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Thought Google TV was dead in the water? LG disagrees. The company has announced a raft of new connected TV sets will be on show at CES in a couple of weeks

LG has lifted the lid on some of its televisual plans for CES 2013 by confirmed that seven new connected Google TV sets are on the way.

The company, which unveiled its first integrated Google TV offerings at CES last year, will launch the flagship GA7900 series in 47 and 55-inches, which features an LG Cinema Screen display with a super slim 0.4 inch bezel for near edge-to-edge viewing.

Alongside the GA7900 series, LG will also show off the GA6400 series in 42, 47, 50, 55 and 60-inch incarnations.

The sets will arrive with the newly-redesigned Magic Remote, which now features a full keyboard and a greater array of voice commands. As well as Google TV, the LG goggleboxes will also being access to the OnLive cloud gaming service.

Last year the South Korean company also introduced the mightily-impressive 55-inch 3D OLED set. Will the comany have anything equally delicious to show when the worlds biggest tech show returns to Las Vegas in the second week of January?

Wed hope that its something a little more exciting than the Google TV platform, which continues to be on live support.

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Select ThinkPad owners may be making online purchases simply by tapping a compatible credit card to an embedded NFC reader before 2013 is through. Lenovo reps confirmed that the tech would be coming to a yet-to-be-announced array of NFC-enabled ThinkPad tablets or Ultrabooks sometime this year -- processing partnerships are still in the works, so we dont have any details to share there, but if all goes to plan, you could be submitting your card details securely and with ease very soon. The company shared the news during todays Expand conference in San Francisco, shortly after unveiling two new ThinkPad models, including the T431s Ultrabook. Lenovo hasnt confirmed whether that model will offer tap-to-pay support, too, but we certainly wouldnt rule it out. Weve seen contactless payments in plenty of smartphones, of course, but widespread tablet and laptop implementation has yet to arrive.