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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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    LG Electronics launches first premium camera phone

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    A South Korean walks past the logo of LG Electronics at its headquarters in Seoul July 18, 2005. LG Electronics announced its first premium camera mobile phone on Thursday and an executive told Reuters the company aimed for 10-15 percent of this market segment within about a year. REUTERS/You Sung-Ho

    BERLIN (Reuters) - LG Electronics (066570.KS) announced its first premium camera mobile phone on Thursday and an executive told Reuters the company aimed for 10-15 percent of this market segment within about a year.

    The "Viewty" will go on sale in Europe in mid-October, priced somewhere between its hit "Shine" phone, which sells for about 400 euros ($547), and its LG Prada fashion phone, which sells for about 600 euros, Chang Ma told Reuters.

    Ma, who is in charge of design strategy at LG's mobile communications division, said the phone was designed for ease of sending, sharing and viewing pictures and video.

    It has a touch screen, a 5.1 mega pixel camera and a hot key for uploading video to YouTube (GOOG.O).

    Ma said the Viewty would go on sale worldwide within a month or two of its European launch.

    LG also launched a new smartphone, the LG-KS20, with touch screen and high-speed HSDPA Internet access. The KS20 is the first device based on Microsoft's (MSFT.O) Windows Mobile platform LG has launched in Europe.

    The announcements and interview took place in Berlin at IFA, Europe's biggest consumer electronics trade fair.


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