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Vincent Padois, head tutor at the Pierre and Marie Curie University who teaches robotics and is babysitting the Paris ICub, makes a demonstration with ICub robot, a ?hybrid embodied cognitive system for a humanoid robot" about 1 metre (3.2 feet) high, at the Pierre and Marie Curie University in Paris September 4, 2009. Six versions of ICub exist in laboratories across Europe, where scientists are painstakingly tweaking its electronic brain to make it capable of learning, just like a human child and hoping it will learn how to adapt its behaviour to changing circumstances, offering new insights into the development of human consciousness. REUTERS/Philippe Wojazer

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    Apple iPod Touch named T3's gadget of the year

    Peter Griffiths
    Thu Oct 9, 2008 8:30pm EDT
    Apple's iPod Touch is seen in an undated handout photo. REUTERS/Courtesy of Apple/Handout

    LONDON (Reuters Life!) - Apple has swept the board at Britain's T3 technology magazine's annual awards, winning four top prizes, including gadget of the year for its iPod Touch.

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    The touch-screen music and video player beat the Asus Eee Pc budget laptop, TomTom's GO 920 car navigation system, Sony's HDR-TG3 compact camcorder and six other devices.

    T3 Editor Michael Brook said Apple had "nailed the mix of style and usability" with its latest crop of gadgets.

    "The iPod wasn't the first MP3 player, but it was, and is, by far the best," he said. "The iPhone clearly wasn't the first smartphone, but it was the first one that every man, his dog and his dog's ticks would sell limbs to own."

    Apple won three other awards: best commuter gadget (iPhone); best music gadget (iPod Touch 32GB) and a prize given by the magazine's blog, Gadget Candy (MacBook Air).

    The magazine's second annual awards ceremony was held in Park Lane, central London, on Thursday evening and was hosted by "Cold Feet" actor James Nesbitt.

    Readers cast more than 54,000 votes to pick 11 of the prizes, including the gadget of the year award. The others were chosen by T3. Details are on their website, www.t3.com/.

    * Here is a full list of winners:

    Gadget of the year: Apple iPod Touch

    Best music gadget: Apple iPod Touch 32GB

    Best imaging gadget: Nikon D60

    Drop dead gorgeous: Audi R8

    Best new media: BBC iPlayer

    Gaming gadget: Nintendo's Wii Fit

    Toy of the year: Guitar Hero, music video game

    Commuter gadget: Apple iPhone

    Gadget Candy: Apple MacBook Air

    Retailer of the year: Dixons.co.uk

    Innovation of the year: Sony XEL-1 OLED television

    Green gadget: Honda Civic Hybrid

    Hi Def award: Sony PlayStation 3

    Home gadget: Sky+ HD, digital television

    Gadget you can't live without: TomTom GO 930

    (Editing by Steve Addison and Paul Casciato)
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