I would think you would say "llevo mi iPod" becouse you are taking it away from your current location, but I am not sure.  Sorry.

Muy buena tu explicación.

andrechartrand

En este caso las dos formas se pueden usar:

¿Traigo mi I Pod? (Tú traerás tu I Pod al lugar donde estás ahora)(¿ Traigo mi I Pod a....aquí?)

¿Llevo mi I Pod? (Tú llevarás tu I Pod al lugar a donde vas)¿ Llevo mi I Pod a ... allá?)

Yo comí con buen amigos -- comimos demasiado por supuesto.  Después jugamos el juego de palabras Apples to Apples y reímos muchísimos.

Me comi 'Tofurky' con mi novio y los otros vegetarianos en mi familia.  El resto de mi familia piensa que es extrano y repugnante! jeje....

Estaba bromeando con mis companeros de trabajo en espanol y la llamamos tofu-pavo! 

I guess 'pavo de la soja' would be more accurate! 

I was wondering..."llevo algo?" is in the present form. Literally translated it's like "I bring something?" Could you also say, "Debo llevar algo?" o "llevaría algo?" or are those phrases awkward?

That's a great question. English usually doesn't tolerate naked present tense verbs except in very specific contexts.  For example: I bring something = habitual action. 

Whenever I travel, I bring something to read. 

Even here, if I want to turn it into a question, I need to add a dummy "do":

When I travel, do I bring something to read?

When we hear someone say in English 'I bring something?' we know immediately that the person is a non-native speaker.

English demands a modal construction -- Do I have to bring... Am I bringing.. Should I bring...Would you like me to bring... for something that Spanish accomplishes economically with a single word: llevo.  I'm guessing that when you choose to say:

¿Debo llevar algo?

you are emphasizing the obligation: Do I have to bring something?

Personally, I get tripped up in this issue all the time; I've only recently become aware of how easy it is, in general, for us, as speakers of English, to impose our complicated modal verbal structures on Spanish.  I've come to appreciate the simple present tense in Spanish and how context and intonation can modulate its meaning.

I remember the first time a mexican friend of mine said to me que hago?  And I knew he meant what should I do but it was just the simple present.  

You'll also hear it used when something almost happened.  In English we would say I almost crashed.  A friend of mine told me once casi choco and I had to have him repeat it to understand that he was talking about something that happened to him on the way to work, something in the past.

Like you, I've gotten used to it and really like it.  Lots of situations can be made easier using the simple present.  Remember the DTAT with Sigor when he said something like...Yo no sé porque hace nueve años que estoy aquí...

Or like this...

I've been going there for a long time and never had a problem.

Yo voy allí desde hace mucho y nunca he tenido ningún problema...

I hadn't really thought about present as past, but yeah, you're right.  And of course, we express futurity with present tense forms in Spanish all the time.

The fact is you can express yourself pretty well in a wide range of circumstances armed with the simple present.

Lo hago después.  I’ll do it after.   Also depending on context, this could be I do it after.

Lo haré después.  I’ll do it after.

You can use either for the immediate future.