So, the way I see this, everyone and the mailman is trying to sell me a Portable Media Player. The choices are vast, and the feature combinations, endless. That being said, this little one does seem kind of cute. Be forewarned though, I know next to nothing about these toys.
Now, the m:robe 500 isn’t exactly a PMP. It doesn’t play video. What it is exactly though, isn’t clear. It’s either a digital camera that plays mp3s. Or, it’s an mp3 player that takes pictures. Seeing as the picture quality tops out at 1.3MP, maybe we should see it as the latter. The nice thing is, it comes with a touch-sensitive 3.7inch LCD display.
It weighs in at 7.4 ounces (210g). Not featherlight, but not heavy either, only an ounce heavier than an iPod Photo. Finally, and perhaps most importantly, it comes with 20GB of storage.
So, um… in other words, for the same price as an iPod Photo, you get half the storage… and twice the screen size. Except the iPod doesn’t actually take the pictures. But, and this is a big but… It’s not an iPod. Hmmm, now tell me, why am I evaluating everything in relation to the iPod?
Good work, Mr.Jobs, you’ve iPodified me.
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So let’s see…. How many battery dependant something or others do I own? Remote controls (one for the TV, the DVD, the satellite), digital camera, camcorder, waterproof shower radio… Man! The battery business is a good one to be in. With so many batteries around, it would stand to reason that you’d want to get some of the rechargeable kind. Enter the Mach1 Fusion.
This one comes from Sweeden, where newly formed company Rotundus has an interesting prototype of a ball-shaped roving robot. Originally desgined with planet (as in, not ours) exploration in mind, there are plans now to market the robot for security purposes.
So this is a really special one. It’s really just a clock, but one that breaks out of the mold and goes where no clock has gone before. 
This is probably old news. But it’s news to me. If you’re one of those that likes to make neat CDs, or DVDs, with labels and all, your life just got easier. An outfit called Lightscribe is licencing technology to hardware companies (such as LaCie, HP, and others) that allows you to burn your labels directly to your DVD. No need for sticky labels, or even fancy label printers.
Oh Apple, Apple!… What are you going to make us do next? You jettison the display on one of your products, and what happens next? Everyone drops them. Well, at least two that I know of: 
DAPreview has an interesting post on a product from Hong Kong company Citiwide Technologies. It’s a Portable Media Player with swappable drives: the MP4-010. I say: it’s about darn time!
I’m a big fan of SMS. I’m in the middle of something, cant make a call, but need to get in touch now: SMS. Of course, the annoyance, is the way you have to enter your text. I never gave T9 predictive text input a chance, it drove me nuts. I always craved qwerty keyboards, but they only came in bigger, more ungainly phones, like the Sidekick.