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This is not the new mini iPod
Ok, so this obviously a fake, but while we're obsessing over the topic, we couldn't resist posting up this photo of what the new "miniPod" might look like.

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Toyota's new robot

It's still a while off, but Toyota's planning to introduce a new humanoid robot at the Aichi World Exposition in 2005 that will be able to assist workers in factories and provide help in nursing homes. The best part, though, is that Japan Today says that the robot will also "likely play a horn instrument." Gotta love that.
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1:45 PM on Wed Dec 31 2003
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First OLED handheld coming from Sony

A Japanese newspaper is reporting that sometime early next year Sony is going to come out with the first PDA with an OLED, or organic light-emitting diode, display. The Clie handheld is supposed to have either a three or four inch screen, but otherwise little is know about it. The big deal about OLEDs is that they're supposed to be brighter, thinner, lighter and consumer less power than LCD screens, though because they're so hard to build in larger sizes so far they've only turned up in a few smaller gadgets like digital cameras and cellphones.
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1:36 PM on Wed Dec 31 2003
By gizmodo
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Jon Fortt says: there is no miniPod

Attempting to deflate the recent hype, Jon Fortt of the San Jose Mercury News says that we shouldn't count on seeing a "mini-iPod" introduced next week:
For Apple Chief Executive Steve Jobs to introduce such a product during his speech Tuesday at Macworld Conference & Expo, Apple would have to either unveil a breakthrough hard-drive technology, begin selling iPods based on the same flash-memory storage cards that many digital cameras use, or adopt a new small drive made by Cornice, a Longmont, Colo., start-up. Apple does not typically focus its engineering efforts on hard drives. Just last month, an Apple vice president told the Mercury News that the Cupertino company has no plans to make a music player based on flash storage cards. And a spokesman familiar with Cornice's business said he is not aware of a relationship with Apple.
Guess we'll know for certain in just a few days.
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1:00 PM on Wed Dec 31 2003
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First external USB HDTV tuner

In a way we're amazed it's taken this long, but the first external USB high-definition TV tuner for PCs is coming out. The OnAir USB HDTV from SASEM uses USB 2.0 to connect to a PC (it'd have to, USB 1.1 is too slow for high-definition broadcasts) and comes with a built-in encoder chip for recording live analog TV as DVD quality video files.
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12:49 PM on Wed Dec 31 2003
By gizmodo
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The fax machine: not dead yet

BBC News article about the lowly fax machine and how it hangs on in the face of email, text messaging, and the everything else that should have rendered it obsolete by now. Of course, the most obvious explanation for why faxing is still around is because the whole digital signature thing hasn't caught on yet, but the article looks at some of the other reasons why the number of pages faxed increased by 40% last year.
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11:47 AM on Wed Dec 31 2003
By gizmodo
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Medical smart bracelet

A Turkish doctor has invented a "smart bracelet" that the elderly and infirmed can wear that can automatically alert a family member or a nurse via text message if their body temperature, heart rate, or blood pressure become abnormal.
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10:31 AM on Wed Dec 31 2003
By gizmodo
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Is the $100 iPod a bad move for Apple?

With rumors flying that Apple is about to introduce a $100 iPod at MacWorld next week, CNET asks analysts whether a miniPod would help the company compete with cheaper MP3 players from Creative and Rio, or just end up cannibalizing sales of more expensive iPods. We, on the otherhand, are less interested in whether or not it's a good business decision for Apple, and are just curious to see what the damn thing looks like.
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2:16 AM on Wed Dec 31 2003
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Gizmodo on the go

The one man editorial team that is Gizmodo hits the road tomorrow (well, we're already on the road, but now we're heading to another stop on our West Coast tour). Anyway, the reason we bring this up is to mention that while posting should be more or less about normal, for the next few days we might be a bit slower than usual at responding to email. Something's got to give, you know.

1:46 AM on Wed Dec 31 2003
By gizmodo
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Nokia goes bling Anyone else out there fascinated with those new Nokia television commercial featuring Snoop Doog?

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Gametrac due out in April

It almost sounds too good to be true, but apparently the Gametrac — that portable video game console that will play MP3s and MPEG-4 video files, send and receive text messages, and have a built-in digital camera, Bluetooth for wireless multi-player gaming, and GPS — is set to come out here next April with a retail price of just $200. They're also supposed to be showing it off at CES next month, so hopefully we'll get a sneak peek at it then.
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12:04 PM on Tue Dec 30 2003
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LG won't let go

Despite Microsoft having decided to kill it off, LG says they're going to keep making Smart Displays. Though they do concede that Microsoft's decision might make it difficult to develop a "next-generation product." You think?
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11:54 AM on Tue Dec 30 2003
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Laptops / PCs

The coming year for Apple

AppleLust.com has some predictions for the coming year, among them there will be a G5 iMac, a G5 PowerBook, a new line of flat screen displays (including a 17-inch Cinema Display, and possibly a 30-inch model), discount iPods, and maybe, just maybe a Mac tablet computer.
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11:25 AM on Tue Dec 30 2003
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Panasonic's WiFi phone

Following in the footsteps of Mitsubishi, Cisco, and others, Panasonic says it is going to release a wireless Voice over IP phone that works with WiFi hotspots. Ok, but why aren't they just putting WiFi into regular cellphones and saving everybody a lot of trouble?
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10:18 AM on Tue Dec 30 2003
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Samsung's wearable mouse

An unusual new wearable mouse from Samsung called the Scurry that's worn either as a glove or a ring and controlled just by moving your fingers through the air. Samsung says they have no plans to sell the mouse, at least not anytime soon.
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9:55 AM on Tue Dec 30 2003
By gizmodo
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Astronaut's little helper

NASA is working on a canteloupe-sized "Personal Satellite Assistant" for astronauts designed to follow them around during space walks and record their activities via streaming video and perform basic tasks for them while on space walks.
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1:29 AM on Tue Dec 30 2003
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LCD TVs from ViewSonic? There's word that ViewSonic, which jumped into the flat-panel game earlier this year with a plasma television, will announce at least two new LCD TVs at the big Consumer Electronics Show next month.
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Asus A716 Pocket PC coming next month

Bargain PDA reports that the Asus MyPal A716 Pocket PC, the one with WiFi and Bluetooth, a 400MHz processor, 64MB of RAM, and both SD and CompactFlash memory card slots, is going to come out here in the US next month. Normally not such a big deal, except that this will be the first Pocket PC to be sold in the North America to have dual memory card slots and both Bluetooth and WiFi.
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2:27 PM on Mon Dec 29 2003
By gizmodo
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