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Lidl launches £12.99 tablet

BUDGET supermarket Lidl has unveiled a tablet computer costing under thirteen pounds.

The tablet, called the LiPad, has dispensed with an expensive touchscreen interface in favour of knobs which control the horizontal and vertical axis of a moveable cursor.

Users can draw their own entertainment on the screen, which uses magnetic aluminium technology.

A Lidl spokesman said: “The kids want a tablet, Granny wants a tablet, but we all know it’ll be gathering dust in a cupboard in a month.

“With the LiPad you can still enjoy movies, games and surfing the web while exercising your imagination and creativity.

“For example, instead of boring old watching Die Hard 4, now you can create it yourself, frame-by-frame, then shake it away when you get bored.”

Eight-year-old Tom Booker said: “I played with it for about 20 minutes, got bored, smashed it over my younger brother’s head and broke the screen.

“Which is exactly what I would’ve done with an iPad Mini.”

Your astrological week ahead, with Psychic Bob

Libra (23 SEP-23 OCT)
Never go to sleep with an argument unresolved. Resort to arm-wrestling if necessary, although she does have the weight advantage.

Scorpio (24 OCT-21 NOV)
On Saturday, you will mention you’re doing something mundane then highlight its mundanity with a contrasting sarcastic statement. Rock & roll!

Sagittarius (22 NOV-21 DEC)
Your boyfriend reveals he has a foot fetish, but at a push he would like you to dress as any ex-leader of the Labour Party.

Capricorn (22 DEC-19 JAN)
On an evening out, you suspect the Latour ’70 is corked. And by ‘corked’ I mean ‘flat’. And by ‘Latour ’70’ I mean ‘half-empty bottle of White Lightning you found in a bin’.

Aquarius (20 JAN-19 FEB)
Your romance has a fairytale ending this week as your boyfriend locks you in your own oven and murders your grandmother.

Pisces (20 FEB-20 MAR)
You will spend an engaging 45 minutes on Thursday listening to Velvet Underground’s ‘Heroin’ then imagining what Lou Reed would actually look like in ‘a sailor’s suit and cap’.

Aries (21 MAR-19 APR)
Haters gonna hate. Potatoes gonna potate. Christian Slater’s gonna Christian Slate. And so on.

Taurus (20 APRIL – 20 MAY)
You shouldn’t still be using the word ‘boobies’ aged 30. Not for the finals of your medical degree, certainly.

Gemini (21 MAY-20 JUN)
Your final bid of £200 for a rare Italian Star Wars poster sees you win the ebay auction, as well as bringing a whole new definition to the word ‘win’.

Cancer (21 JUN-22 JUL)
Your insecurity and alcoholism may well be attributable to your mum not showing you much love as a child, but in her defence you are pretty unloveable.

Leo (23 JUL-22 AUG)
Might as well face it, you’re addicted to love. And crack.

Virgo (23 AUG-22 SEP)
A Stitch In Time Saves Nine, But Dozens More Feared Dead In Sewing Machine Factory Blaze.

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