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The Year's Best Gadget Ideas
valdean writes "David Pogue, the influential personal technology columnist for the New York Times, has chosen what he calls '10 of the year's best small, sweet improvements in our electronic lives.' Rather than your average pseudo-commercial list of branded devices, it's a list of improvements. As Pogue puts it at the end of his column: 'Come New Year's Eve, raise one tiny toast to the anonymous engineers whose eccentricities or idealism brought these sparkling developments to life.' They are (sans explanation): the folding memory card, the voice mail VCR, the front-side TV connector, the bigger-than-TV movie, TV à la carte, the outer-button flip phone, the free domain name, the modular DVD screen, the family-portrait burst mode, and the hybrid high-definition tape.'"
If I had mod points I'd give you some!!
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Just fucking suck it up and sign up already. You will never have to do it again and its the fricking new york times...they arent going to try to steal your identity or report you to the FBI for reading to many terrorist articles. It's not like its a link to some unknown source thats not worth your time. Think of it as what you need to do for the priveledge of reading one of the premier papers free...if you dont agree, walk down the street and buy a copy (dont even think about subscribing, then you not only give them your email and some bogus info but you give them your real address and credit card number...GASP)
Bottles.