Sony Ericsson’s new eye candy includes the K850, W910, and W960. The K850 has a 5 megapixel cam, NetFront browser, and tri-band HSDPA and quadband GSM plus EDGE.

The W910 and W960 are outfitted with 3G data, 2 megapixel and 3.2 megapixel cams respectively, and — in the case of the W960 — UIQ 3.1 and a full 8GB of onboard storage; no official pics of that one just yet, but keep checking the gallery for updates. Also-rans in today’s lineup include the not-for-US-consumption K53
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Those reports of Safari bugs were accurate. (I think its a plot!) Apple issued a new version of the public beta of Safari for Windows today — highest on the list of fixes were patches for three separate security vulnerabilities that were uncovered just hours after its first launch.

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If the $750 Nokia N95 is too much for your wallet, consider the latest Chinese knock-off E-PDA V16. It’s a bit larger, but sports a three-inch QVGA touchscreen, three-megapixel camera, Bluetooth, and a multimedia player. It also supports microSD memory cards.

For a third of the price, it looks good to me!

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Eleksen Group announced a new electronics module for FM radio and updated electronics modules for iPod and Bluetooth. Sounds like yet another electronics gadget, but these are for wearables!

Controlled by their Common Interface technology, sensors are embedded in a garment or accessory items making an electro-conductive fabric touchpad optimized for the creation of flexible, durable, and rugged fabric touch screen interfaces.

Several companies have already integrated ElekTex sensors into their clothing and backpack lines to enable their customers to control a variety of mobile entertainment and consumer electronic devices. With ElekTex, the electronic gadget is stowed safely away in a backpack or pocket, and is controlled from the sensor on a jacket sleeve or backpack handle.

Continuing the robot news this week, Japan’s latest creation, called Kansei, is capable of 36 facial expressions triggered by word associations from a self-updating online database of 500,000 keywords. That means it will react with appropriate expression to certain words with its 19 movable parts within a silicon face mask.

If someone asked me (though no one has), it’s just too weird.

Earlier in the week, the Japanese Science and Technology Agency, unveiled CB2, child-sized robot, which moves as a toddler would – a human toddler, that is.

It can turn over and be helped to its — um, feet, has 51 compressed air-powered actuators, and has 200 tactile sensors in its "skin." Check it out.

"What we are trying to do here is to create a flow of consciousness in robots so that they can make the relevant facial expressions," said project leader Junichi Takeno, a professor at Meiji University’s School of Science and Technology.

This whole thing is creeping me out.