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Suitable for one-handed operation - the new video iPod "will be huge in porn" -

It's Adam Curry we have to thank for this stray packet. Curry does a regular podcast: his latest predicts a big boom in what we might call "pocket podcasts." That is, assuming the vibrating iPod comes onto the market and turns out to be legal (in California) as well.

Normally, Curry's own weblog gives nothing away; you have to listen. This time, he's startled the guys at Investors.com into describing his rant: "Porn is just going to be huge," he told listeners to his Daily Source Code podcast this week. "The porn guys are just going, 'holy moly,' -- in gratitude for the new market that's opened up to them," is how Investors reported the news.

And is that it? No! - "A week ago, Apple requested a trademark on the term 'Vingle,' " -possibly as a contraction of the words "video" and "single," according to AppleInsider.com. In three filings with the United States Patent & Trademark Office, Apple described a video version of the iTunes Music Store business as well as a line of computers, terminals, handhelds, and electronic notepads branded under the Vingle name.

Stimulating? Well, yes. And you simply won't believe The Toy...