World's smallest five megapixel digital camera. This might just make us forget all about the Exilim: There's a new superslim digital camera coming from Sony that will be the smallest five megapixel camera ever made. The DSC-T1 is just eight-tenths of an inch thick, 2.4-inches tall, and has a 2.5-inch LCD viewfinder and a 3x optical zoom Carl Zeiss lens. Comes out in January, which seems awfully far away right now. Read [Thanks, Marcel and Kakyou]... [Gizmodo]

Toshiba PDA to offer VGA screen. Quadruples traditional Pocket PC screen size [The Register]

Direct to stereo. Sony, Sharp, Pioneer, and Kenwood are working together on a new line of stereo systems with Ethernet ports that can download music directly from the Internet without requiring a PC. The joint-venture is called Any Music Planning, and right now the stereos only connect to a Japanse online music service called LabelGate that charges about a $1.90 per track, but there's probably no reason why these things couldn't hook up to Apple's iTunes store or the new Napster 2.0. Read... [Gizmodo]

Review: D-Link Central Home Drive. Network attached storage goes consumer, as D-Link ships a low-power, Universal Plug-and-Play hard drive that plugs into your home network. While speed is not its strong suit, it's convenient and compact. [Extremetech]

Postage-stamp-sized wireless phones.

Motorola (MOT) rolled out a new design that it says will allow postage-stamp-sized wireless phones within two years.

"Mobile Extreme Convergence" will make equipment smaller, use power more efficiently and will make it easier, and faster, to develop programs that run on phones and other wireless devices, the company said at a trade show in Las Vegas.

"The MXC architecture rethinks mobile technology design for mass market deployment".

The tiny unit could be embedded in other devices, like MP3 players or digital cameras, to make almost any gadget into a wireless phone, Motorola said.

The first chips using the MXC architecture are expected to sample in the second half of 2004

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The march of the mini music drives. More portable music players like the iPod are expected to hit the market soon, thanks to hard-drive makers that are churning out small-sized drives. [CNET News.com - Front Door]