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Living with Tech: Extremely Thin Gadgets
Most mobile gadgets need to be compact and lightweight enough to carry around. Some have answered this requirement by making their devices extremely thin. These are just a few of the thinnest gadgets we've seen.
At 0.25 inch, the iPod Nano is the thinnest of all MP3 players.
The Samsung T10 is an MP3 player with a built-in FM radio, and is only 0.3 inch thick.
The Sony Walkman NWZ-A728 is really thin at 0.4 inch and sounds great too.
If you want a really beefy MP3 player, the iPod Touch comes with 32GB storage in a slim 0.3 inch package.
The Creative Zen is available in 16GB and 32GB, plus it's quite slim at 0.4 inch.
The Helio Mysto is the CDMA version of the Samsung U600. It clocks in at around 0.43 inch, which is one of the thinnest slider cell phones around.
The Sony Ericsson W880i is one of the thinnest Walkman phones around at only 0.4 inch deep.
The Motorola Q9c is a rarity in smart phones -- it is a svelte looker that only measures 0.4 inch thick.
The Samsung Armani is a sexy brand-name touch screen phone that is a svelte 0.41 inch thick.
The Nokia 5310 Xpress Music is a slim cell phone with a built-in music player, and it's only 0.41 inch thick.
The Samsung SGH-A727 is quite possibly the thinnest phone we've ever seen at an astounding 0.35 inch.
The MacBook Air is one of the slimmest laptops around at only 0.76 inch thick at its thickest point, and at around 0.16 inch at the tapered edges.
The Lenovo ThinkPad X300 is a super-thin laptop at only 0.73 inch thick, and it's so great it earned an Editor's Choice award.
The Canon PowerShot SD1000 Digital ELPH is a nice 0.8 inch thick, which fits easily in a pants pocket.
The Sony Cyber-shot DSC-T70 is a slim 0.8-inch thick digital camera with a slide-out cover.
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