Top 10 Gadgets of the Year

Near-vaporware keyboards, gaming towers, little laptops, terrific tablets and a hacked iProduct are the gadget champs of 2007.
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other things in the vaporware stakes. This $1,536 beast of a 'board isn't the most expensive thing in our Top 10, but it's not far off.
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. And good Lord, what a box! Even if similar specs are offered by a dozen other boutique outfits, none can match that sexy etched case.

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Photo: Daniel Salo
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, the one with free internet wins. Though its primary functionality is designed to funnel you into spending money at the Kindle store and is hampered by nickel-and-dime fees, skip to the web browser, and the unit shines. The e-ink display is, as ever, fabulous.

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and the Nanobook, it's the one we like best.

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is the pocket-sized computer an entire generation of geeks has dreamed of owning. So what if it isn't a phone? Phones suck. This is the wired life given to you wirelessly. And because the operating system is built on Debian Linux, you can hack it any way you like.

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, a 47-inch beast packed with inputs, features and a picture that smokes sets that cost twice as much.

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. Solid, powerful and pricey, it is to everyday MP3 players as Porsches are to Pintos.

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that bring this formerly sub-$1,000 model into the sub-$500 bracket. Sharp pics, top-notch image stabilization and 10 fashionably unfashionable megapixels make it the camera to have.

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