Yup, It’s around the time of the year where Apple hits the new lines of iPods to the consumer for the holiday season. The new iPod Shuffle features a design quite similar to the 2nd generation except smaller.  It only comes in a 2gb model which costs $49 USD ($89 NZD).

Scientists have created a product which is 95% water in a powdered form. They had actually discovered it in 1968 but hadn’t found a use for it until now. It turns out to be extremely effective at absorbing CO2 gas which is thought to contribute to the greenhouse effect.

The powder is known as “dry water” because it is 95% water but is a dry powder. Each particle contains a droplet of water encased by chemically modified silica, the material that sandis made of. the coating of silica stops the water from combining with other droplets and becoming a liquid.There’s also several other uses for dry water like, as jumpstarting reactions and providing a safe way to transport and store harmful waste and chemicals.

Love Vinyls? Well now you can become one with a new company called Vinyly offering to press your charred remains into a vinyl for 2000 UK Pounds. With this package you get 30 vinyls, 24 minutes of music of your choice, £3500 gets you a cover portrait, £500 gets a song written and produced just for you, and £1000 gets your record distributed to stores all over the world. And they can also provide a £10,000 FUNeral, where you can be sure the DJ will be playing your record. They can also Vinylfy your dead pets!

25.94 seconds.  Thats how long it takes Melissa Thompson from Salford, England to type “The razor-toothed piranhas of the genera Serrasalmus and Pygocentrus are the most ferocious freshwater fish in the world. In reality they seldom attack a human.”

This record was broken on a Galaxy S but the model is not known.  Before Thompson, Franklin Page of Seattle held the record, having typed the above sentence in 35.54 seconds earlier this year.

Please Note: This has not been officially confirmed Guinness.

As some of you may have heard, There is a new Apple TV due to hit the market sometime next Fall (Spring in NZ). It will sport internals similar to the iPhone 4 (A4 CPU, 16GB of flash storage) and will probably cost around $99USD. The new Apple TV will not support 1080p because it is not possible to crank out video of that definition using the processor that will be used in it, so the video will be limited to 720p.

Apple will also be officially renaming the device to iTV to match their current range of iDevices.

But it’s not all bad news… That’s right the Apple TV is getting an app store!

It is not yet clear whether it will run off (and share apps with) the current iPhone, iPad and iPod app store or have separate apps but we will find out at the full unveil sometime in Fall (Spring in NZ)

We will keep you posted on any new information we hear of.

September has always been Apple’s iPod refresh month since 2005, and has been held at the Yerba Buena Center For The Arts. A couple of members of the TechBitus team emailed the Yerba Buena Center For The Arts and attempted to make a booking for the 9th September 2010 for the Theater room. What do we expect to see ? This event has always been an iPod event but there maybe be an exclusion this year. Read the predictions after the jump:

Update: Apple have announced this event for September 1