These days, the past is increasingly less predictive, the future is almost unimaginable, and the present exists for about a nano-second.

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Red Bull seems to have nailed this one to the nano-second.

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

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The Apple maestro is expected to announce a second-generation iPod Nano, with enough storage for video.

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