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From Publishers Weekly

Starred Review. Philosopher and motorcycle repair-shop owner Crawford extols the value of making and fixing things in this masterful paean to what he calls manual competence, the ability to work with oneÖs hands. According to the author, our alienation from how our possessions are made and how they work takes many forms: the decline of shop class, the design of goods whose workings cannot be accessed by users (such as recent Mercedes models built without o (more…)

Here is a product, and here is a question. The product is a steadicam for the iPhone and Flip.

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Steadicam for your iPhone? Looks like it works, but… why?

Like them or not, e-books are here to stay. Personally, I don’t like them — but that’s mainly because e-book readers have been ugly, clumsy, and limited in function and selection

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French Retailers Revolt Against E-book Hegemony

See the photo there? That’s just ONE of the items in the $450+ prize pack that Energizer will be giving to one of our lucky readers. The rules are simple, here’s how to win: 1

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Contest: Win a prize pack of Energizer ‘Energi to Go’ chargers worth over $450

When Daniel Raffel emailed and asked if we’d be interested in publishing his list of favorite stuff from 2009 we quickly agreed. He has worked on some of the more interesting projects in Silicon Valley over the last couple of years, and has his finger on the pulse of new technology. His post is below

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From A Geek’s Geek: Daniel Raffel’s Favorite New Projects, Products and Features of 2009

Between CES and Google’s press event , next week is bound to be a torrential mess of press releases. Looking to sneak onto the radar before every tech writer in the lands is pulled into cranking out post after post on the latest and great from the industry’s big guns, iPhone accessory maker Mophie has gone ahead and put their upcoming wares on the table

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Mophie To Take On Square With Their Own iPhone Credit Card Reader

Even though developement started in 1997, the year of Clinton was inaugurated a second time, Duke Nukem Forever never came out. It’s dead dead

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Sorry, dude, Game Stop won’t be able to fulfill that Duke Nukem Forever pre-order

Curious what Peter Ha is up to after he left us ? Well, he’s chilling at Time where he’s writing about comic books on Techland and making lame videos like the one above

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Laugh at Peter Ha while he counts down Time’s Top 10 gadgets

I’m sitting on a darkened patio of a club called Viva in the Futian district of Shenzhen. It’s not too late - about 1am - and the place is busy but not full.

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CrunchGear In China: The Ex-Pats

Whenever companies do something inexplicable, the nerd in me always comes back to that scene in Close Encounters of the Third Kind when Richard Dreyfus keeps building models of a mountain, culminating in a huge, muddy mess in his kitchen. Throughout it all he keeps saying “This means something.” Well, the latest molehill into a mountain is the move by Time Inc.

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“This Means Something:” Why the Magazine Industry Is Suddenly Crowing About Tablets