It weighs 11 grams and has dimensions of 45 x 18 x 9 millimeters. It uses lithium polymer battery which provides up to 10 hours of music play to the player with the charging time of 3 hours (80% charge is reached in 2 hours). It also supports charging from the USB and you can use your player as a USB drive too. Despite the lack of display and a minimum of controls, the new iPod Shuffle is capable of cunning tricks to perform only with the help of a small remote control on the wire with 3 buttons. Two of them manage the volume and the length, located between the two, works as a mouse One. Short click initiates playback or pause. Double click quick launch next song. Triple click rapidly for the previous page. If you press and hold the central key, the player says the name of the song and artist name aloud. Further more, keeping the button pressed distributes audio signals and the player begins to transfer play lists. To select the desired song, its enough to press the button. iPod Shuffle has been marketed and sold in Apple shops at a price of $79 for a single 4 GB version.

The company CSR announced a BlueCore Chip “BC7830”, united on a single crystal module are GPS, Bluetooth 2.0 + EDR, FM receiver and transmitter. Manufacturer claims that the product is the smallest in the world with smart navigation module. Area of circuits does not exceed 11mm2, and low power consumption chip corresponds to the upcoming standard Bluetooth with low energy. BlueCore BC7830 will be used in different mobile technology equipments from mobile phones to media and gaming consoles.

According to a representative from CSR the integration of “BC7830” in mobile GPS receivers costs only one dollar. Similar solutions of competitors costs more, they are bigger in size, or consume more energy. According to the forecasts of analysts low energy Bluetooth technology will be used in 428 million devices by 2010 and BlueCore BC7830 is another step towards the smart low cost gadgets.

We have never heard of the company IMOVIO, but we would like to move our thoughts. Recently, IMOVIO presented the iKit, a miniature laptop, which will fit on the palm of your hand. Perhaps you saw the other Pocket PCs or mobile devices, which are smaller then iKit in size, but only iKit may be the smallest leptop compliance form factor. Its size is 95 x 65 x 15.5 mm and the weight is 113 grams. The device is equipped with a full QWERTY keyboard and a 2.8 “QVGA screen. Operating system here is Linux, with Marvell PXA270 312MHz processor and 64MB of RAM can be considered an excellent choice, as well as Windows XP here would not be very appropriate.

Among the communication capabilities iKit conains Bluetooth 2.0, 802.11b/g Wifi and the ability to use HSDPA based mobile internet services. It also contains removable micro-SD card for data storage and a video camera for VoIP video meetings.  Batteries should be sufficient for 3 hours. Frankly speaking, the device is so small that its hard to believe in some practical applications. But perhaps it will find its buyers. Moreover, the cost of iKit in the United States should be in the range of USD $170.

Z-Nano - a tiny mouse, which, at its example demonstrates, to a point of absurdity can reach the desire to create gadgets are getting smaller and smaller. The manufacturer calls it the smallest optical mouse in the world (its size is 42 x 21 x 17,65 mm), This USB mouse amazingly, includes functional left- and right-click buttons and up and down scroll buttons, but I can hardly imagine how to work with it at all … In a word, to make something done, but what’s next? If you’re still interested, the value of this mouse is USD $60.