Filed under: Analysis / Opinion , Hardware , iPod Family , Multimedia , Odds and ends , iPod nano , iPod touch If the rumors are to be believed, then cameras and the iPod are getting it on lately, because in about nine months (or whatever the gestation period is for gadgets — you’re welcome for that mental image) we’ll be seeing lots of iPods with lenses in them. First up is the fine folks at iLounge, who claim they’ve seen the newest iPod nano, and it’s got a camera right where your finger usually is. They also say the new version has a lower click wheel and a smaller action button.

Slide-a-ma-jig is advertised as a “sliding mix-n-match character creation activity with 7,962,624 possible combinations” They claim it can keep you busy for 37 min, I spent about 5 min with it but I can see how some people would enjoy this app.

Filed under: iPod Family , Odds and ends , iPod classic What’s nicer than to come back into a nice, cozy space shuttle after a hard day fixing the Hubble Space Telescope, taking off your sweaty space suit, and the listening to some tunes on your iPod? TUAW reader Brandon pointed out a photo (below) from the latest mission that showed Astronauts John Grunsfeld and Andrew Feustel grinning in the shuttle mid-deck after the third extravehicular activity (EVA). Plastered to one wall with Velcro are an iPod and some sort of speaker system

Do you play the lottery? How would like an app that helps you pick lottery numbers, stores you’re saved numbers and also makes it easy to find winning numbers from every state in the US including Puerto Rico. If you answer yes then Space Lotto is the app for you

Filed under: Analysis / Opinion , Hardware , Multimedia , Odds and ends , iPod classic Andrew sent us this great story — he found an iPod classic in the melting snow of Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada. It had apparently been there “since early winter,” and was frozen solid…