Some rumours won't go away. A smaller, cheaper iPhone - the so called 'iPhone nano' - is now being tipped for a mid-2011 debut.

The Defense Sciences Office of DARPA is developing a robotic hummingbird it calls the Nano Air Vehicle that one day will provide indoor and outdoor reconnaissance and surveillance capabilities for the United States within urban environments. No, it is definitely not a bird-brain scheme!

There have been rumours and stories in a variety of news sources about an iPhone Nano over the past few months.  As we saw at the recent MacWorld, none came to fruition.  Unfortunately, that tiny detail caught the cloners entirely off-guard.

Two iPod related news stories stopped and made us think today. First there are Japanese trousers catching fire as iPod batteries allegedly overheat. Then there is the murder involving Indian iPod porn...