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The Most Wonderfully Unrealistic Gear from CES 2013

The Five Best Phones of CES 2013

The Best New Vaporware

It's the product that will never be. Like that sixth season of The Wire, we hope that it happens, but we know deep in our hearts that it won't. Intel's Nikiski ultrabookand its see-through-trackpad-display falls into that category.

The Biggest Surprise of CES

Wait, is this right? RIM's update to its PlayBook OS is actually good? High fives are currently flying in meetings across the nation.

The Best Booth at CES

Samsung doesn't build a booth at CES. They build a small town. A small town with knowledgeable citizens and a beautiful Main Street. Really, the kind of place you want to take your family to for the summer. And they do it Every. Single. Year.

The Best New Camera

It's beautiful, simple to use, and elegant. And the Fuji X-Pro1 is rightly going to end up in a lot of camera bags when it hits the streets.

The Best New Speakers

Bang & Olufsen is known for two things: high quality sound and high quantity price tags. The AirPlay savvy BeoLit 12 Wireless Speaker don't disappoint in either regard. Oh, and it looks like a pic-a-nic basket!

Best Ultrabook: Dell XPS 13

Engineers at Dell must be on aFast and Furious kick too! They've clearly decided to live life a quarter-mile at a time, and swaddled their XPS 13 with carbon fiber.

Apple's Best of 2011 Picks Are In—and Kinda Weird

It's about that time of the year that the Best of the Year lists start rolling in, and you realise what a horrible, uncurated existence you've led over the past twelve months. Here's Apple's year in review of the best music, books, apps and everything else in iTunes—and we have no earthly idea where some of these come from.