Interoperable Remote Controls. Lord Prox writes "From the HAVi website: "Ever dreamed of how your ideal home could function in the new millennium? A TV with voice recognition capability? Or ... [Slashdot]

A better robovac?. There's a new robotic vacuum cleaner coming from Hanool Robotics that the company claims will be smarter and better at cleaning rooms than the Roomba and the other robovacs that are out now. Instead of moving around a room randomly, or in ever-expanding concentric circles (like the Roomba), the OTTORO uses cameras and sensors to plot out the most efficient route for vacuuming a room. Also improving on the Roomba, the OTTORO can clean corners using a special section port and automatically return to its base station for charging. Read... [Gizmodo]

SanDisk's SD WiFi card. Brighthand review of one eagerly awaited gadget, SanDisk's miniscule new WiFi card for PDAs and cellphones that fits into an SDIO card slot. Even more exciting, a version of the card with 256MB of memory storage should be out in December. Read... [Gizmodo]

The week in Gizmodo. As usual, in case you missed any of them, some highlights from the past week in Gizmodo: Yamaha's MusicCast wireless digital audio system Samsung's overstuffed Pocket PC Phone The big deal about Sony's new Clie The WebStation It's official: Nikon's new D2H digital SLR camera Pocket full of MP3 players Chinese province bans sexual text messages Motorola's new Smartphone Creative's Nomad Jukebox Zen NX Toshiba's 17-inch Media Center laptop This Sound Machine has nothing to do with Gloria Estefan Sony vs Sony Ericsson The Corporate Fallout Detector... [Gizmodo]

P2P Desktop Manufacturing.

Advances in printing technology may enable desktop manufacturing in the future.

(Thanks, Rob!)

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Mustek's new all-in-one. We were plenty impressed by Mustek's all-in-one gadget, the DV3000, but apparently they're already prepping its successor for release this November. The palm-sized DV4000 combines a tapeless digital camcorder that records to SD memory cards with a 3.1 megapixel digital still camera, an MP3 player, a digital voice recorder, and a PC webcam. The video quality isn't the best (the frame rate is a choppy ten per second at highest resolution), but for $199 what do you expect? Read... [Gizmodo]