It seems like this technology will not be available for mass production for a couple years yet, so the first generation iWatch may look more like a souped-up iPod Nano or a slimmed-down screen iPhone on a strap than a snap bracelet.

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The runner-up is the waste-reducing plastic shell enclosing the second-generation iPod nano .

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In nearby Greensboro, International Textile Group, a collection of rolled-fabric makers bought out of bankruptcy by financier Wilbur Ross, is coming up with new products for affiliated company Nano-Tex, which develops textile applications on the nano scale.

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The other seeks start-up funds for a device that converts an iPod Nano into a wristwatch.

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We can't really see Apple going it alone on this one for hardware's sake, and their partnership with Moto, which once seemed so promising, now appears rocky at best after the nano quasi-betrayal (his namely evidenced by Moto's wandering musicphone eye, lining up some seriosu musicphones without iTunes left and right post ROKR E1, like the ROKR E2).

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His futuristic concept is called the Nano Vent-Skin (NVS) and the design -- to wrap buildings in an organic lattice skin made up of micro wind turbines -- is radical.

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