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The Pirate Bay loves to be controversial --how could it not be, with its very existence an affront to much of the political mechanisms of American government?

Swiss manufacturer ABB has revealed a prototype robot called Frida that's designed to be dexterous enough to replace a human being on a production line.

Two intriguing rumors have popped up at almost the same time: A number of photos of an assumed iPod Touch that has no physical home button, hinting at the iPhone 5, and a keypad-less HP device that could be the webOS clone of Apple's invention. Website PreCentral , which secured early images of the Verizon Pre 3, has published images of what seems to be a keyboard-less Pre smartphone, with a screen slightly larger than earlier Pre devices and what seems to be a front-facing camera set off-center at the top of the phone. According to earlier leaked data, the device could be codenamed the Stingray (the Pre 3 was codenamed Mantaray).

Empty mailboxes be damned, these elegant and whimsical designs make letter openers as desirable as ever. Paper mail may be going the way of the dodo, but thanks to some major design upgrades, letter openers are here to stay.