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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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    HTC buys design house to accent smartphone style

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    Thu Dec 4, 2008 9:12am EST
    A woman holds a Google T-Mobile G1 mobile telephone at a T-Mobile store on the day the new phone went on sale in New York City, October 22, 2008. REUTERS/Mike Segar

    SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - HTC, maker of the new Google Android G1 smartphone, has bought design consultancy One & Co to tap its fashion expertise in everything from furniture to snowboard boots.

    Financial terms were not disclosed.

    "We want to keep it as a design consultancy. One & Co has a whole breadth of ideas that could translate to a phone," said Horace Luke, chief innovation officer at Taiwan-based HTC.

    One & Co, housed in one of the many converted warehouses in San Francisco's high-tech district, employs designers from around the world to create innovative products such as furniture made of silver-plated timber.

    The Android G1 phone went on sale last month in the United States at Deutsche Telekom's T-Mobile.

    (Reporting by David Lawsky; editing by Richard Chang)


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