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Best of What's New 2005

Posted by Zonk on from the toys-and-loot dept.

mmoyer writes "Begin the onslaught of year-end roundups. Popular Science takes the early lead with their Best of What's New awards, a roundup of what they consider the top 100 products and technologies of the year. In addition to the obvious awardees like the PSP and perpendicular magnetic recording, there's interesting asides like the world's first programmable wave pool and colored toy bubbles made from disappearing dye."

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  1. How about the worst of what's new? by tcd004 · · Score: 4, Interesting
    Why don't people ever do these kinds of lists?

    I can think of a few. Cellphone spam, Sony DRM, the EU trying to take over the internet, T.O. What else?

    And of course Small Town Misfit (plug for my website)
    tcd004

  2. Re:Greatest device by AKAImBatman · · Score: 4, Interesting

    actually, the Xbox360 gets the Grand award for Home Entertainment ... getting accolades before it's out and tested by the masses.

    No kidding. Could they have written a more sensational piece?

    the Xbox 360 easily maintains the cred the original Xbox earned in 2001 when it crushed rival PlayStation with superior graphics and performance.

    *Crushed* the Playstation? I hope someone told Sony, because last I heard they were still dominant.

    Its one-teraflops processing speed, fueled by three 3.2-gigahertz processors (think: three desktop computers), may make the 360 the most powerful computer you've ever used.

    Do these guys need to work on their copy, or what? 3.2 GHz is impressive, but hardly "three desktop computers". And what's this "fueled by"? Is a processor a consumable? If so, can I turbo-charge it with silicon aditives? I mean, these guys have been writing way too many car reviews.

    Besides, the only reason why the X-Box is on top is because they beat Nintendo and Sony to market. Which is kind of funny, because it's sounding more and more like all the console makers will be using many of the same technologies. Which suggests that this could be the least impressive lineup of game consoles ever to hit the market. We'll see how it pans out, though.

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  3. It's not "What's New" without Phil & Dixie by The+I+Shing · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I mean, c'mon, how can you call it "What's New" and not have Phil & Dixie hosting it?

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  4. as was pointed out here before... by YesIAmAScript · · Score: 3, Interesting

    2.88MB 3.5" floppy drives used perpendicular recording.

    Although they were done by Toshiba also, there's no way this 2005 patent is the canonical patent for perpendicular recording, as there is obvious prior art.

    http://www.intel.com/design/archives/periphrl/docs /7281.htm

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