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Submission + - Ten gadgets that defined the decade (engadget.com)

Corpuscavernosa writes: As 2009 winds down and we try to come up with new and clever ways of referring to the early years of this century, there's really only one thing left to do: declare our ten favorite gadgets of the aughts and show them off in chronological order. It's arguable that if this wasn't the decade of gadgets, it was certainly a decade shaped by gadgets — one which saw the birth of a new kind of connectedness. In just ten years time, gadgets have touched almost every aspect of our daily lives, and personal technology has come into its own in a way never before seen. It's a decade that's been marked the ubiquity of the internet, the downfall of the desktop, and the series finale of Friends, but we've boiled it down to the ten devices we've loved the most and worked the hardest over the past ten years. We even had some of our friends in the tech community chime in with their picks on what they thought was the gadget or tech of the decade — so join us for a look back at the best (gadget) years ever!
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Submission + - Company Produces THC Tomatoes (thecrit.com) 2

Corpuscavernosa writes: Scientists at Montsaint Genie Tech Inc. announced today that they have successfully transferred the gene segment that produces the psychotropic chemical THC in cannabis plants to many other common garden plants, including tomatoes, cucumbers, lettuce, carrots, and more.

But is it legal? "Actually, yes," says Vale. "Our research qualifies as GMO 'intellectual property', as does the process itself. Since tomatoes and other plants are not illegal, a person would be well within the law to grow them and use them as they please."

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Submission + - 7-inch Android powered netbook from GNB (netbooknews.com)

An anonymous reader writes: Netbooknews.com has scored a video of a 7-inch Google Android netbook from a company called GNB during Computex.
The device is powered by a Freescale iMX31 CPU. The design might not be to everyone's taste, but it could turn out to be a super cheap Android netbook.

Comment Re:IMAP (Score 2, Insightful) 220

While this feature isn't for those well versed in POP3 and IMAP, people like my parents/grandparents would love something they could just download, didn't have to configure with "scary" pop3 info, and just worked. I won't use it, but I certainly see a portion of the population that would enjoy such it.

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