I can cope with most of the issues I'm finding with my touch till the next update but theres one issue that I can't copy with which is the scrolling through the podcast list is slow and jerky

Scrolling albums / audiobooks is nice and smooth, but the jerky podcast menu only becomes smooth when I remove my 1000 song tracks from my touch

I recon Tesco (UK) will start putting RFID chips in their Clubcards to track you as you walk round their stores. Hover round a certain food section but don't buy anything from that section, they're workout from the recieved RFID data that you were interested but didn't bite, so lets send the card holder a voucher to get them the bite next time.

They already do it with you purchases, I buy crisps every few months, as they know this they send me a voucher to temp me to buy for often. With RFID they'll be able to detect good I've not bought but have a good chance of having an interest based on my movements round the store.

The big question will be whether an hd boxes will be on sale in the UK in time for December, I don't know of any manufacter yet to announce whether they will have boxes

I had one of these 5 years ago, they were very popular in the UK one xmas, they cost £4 ($8), you gave the car a 30sec charge by attaching it to the remote control and that gave you about 5mins runtime, the car had a range of about 15 foot and you could buy cars on different freqencies so you could race each other, although they were more fun for doing tricks.

The big thing at the moment is these pocket size PicoZ R/C Helicopters

An insurance company here in the UK have been doing a trial of this technology for the past 2 years, it was aims at high risk drivers (ie youngsters), you got charges different rates per mile traveled depending on the location and time of day. Well two weeks ago the canned the trial as a complete failure as they stuggled to get the customers to make it a long term goer.

I'm already watching movies / recorded tv off SD Flash cards, my £20/$40 dvd player accepts all types of flash inc SD Flash, memory stick or usb flash (I've even had a my 320Gb external harddisk hooked up).

So much easier and quicker than waiting for the dvd to spin up, plus the price of flash memory is coming down very quickly, I think it'll be a good replacement to blu-ray if the price of blu-ray's don't fall alot quicker