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Sony has introduced the Qualia line of goods for people with more money than God. The Shinsaibashi Sony Tower has the 6th floor devoted to this new line of technophile goods. The most impressive item so far is the Qualia 016, a 69 x 24 x 17 mm (2.7 x 0.9 x 0.7 in) camera. It is apparently the realization of a 2000 prototype.

I'm reminded of the only funny line in the "I SPY" movie trailer, where Owen Wilson exclaims something along the lines of, "In the spy world, size is everything! Except it's the opposite of the penis thing; for spy stuff you say, 'o! my god, that's so sexy; it's so small!'"

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