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Monday, December 2, 2002
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Sony presents the limited edition Aibo entertainment robots

Sony presents the limited edition Aibo entertainment robots as they perform during a demonstration in Tokyo. The limited Aibo robots come in two colours, burgundy red and snow white.

A Chinese woman rides a bicycle past a giant inflatable mobile phone model in Beijing

A Chinese woman rides a bicycle past a giant inflatable mobile phone model in Beijing. The number of mobile phone users in China, the world's biggest cellular market, grew 2.84 per cent to 195.8 million people from September to October, according to the Ministry of Information Industry. China had 190 million mobile users and 207 million fixed-line subscribers at the end of September.

The WRIST PDA from watchmaker Fossil and handheld software company Palm

 

The WRIST PDA from watchmaker Fossil and handheld software company Palm represents one of the new styles that gadget makers are unveiling coinciding with the 2002 Comdex trade show opened in Las Vegas. The watch, which starts selling mid-2003 for $200 to $300, features a tiny stylus stored in the band, can swap data with a PC, and must be charged once or twice a week.

Employees work on a production line manufacturing hard disk drives

Employees work on a production line manufacturing hard disk drives for the Hong Kong company SAE Magnetics (HK) Ltd in the southern Chinese city of Dongguan. Many foreign companies have established factories in China to take advantage of the low cost of labour.

— Reuters