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Best in pocket: Hard to believe that we’re getting ready to close the book on an entire decade. What will define it (once we figure out what to call it)? Will it be 9-11? Entourage? The inexplicable popularity of reality TV? Maybe it’ll be the gadgets. Paste Magazine has compiled a list of the top 20 gadgets of the past decade, and there are some surprising choices (the Xlerator Hand Dryer), some douchebaggy ones (Bluetooth headsets), and some surprising omissions (wherefore art thou, iMac?). But you’ll agree the top 10 changed your life for the better at tinyurl.com/top20gadgets.

Pippin: If you’re nonplussed with 10 years of gadgetry and only care about what comes next, then the prognosticators at Maclife have a bunch of made-up crap with your name virtually written all over it. They got together with some top gadget reporters and invented five products they swear Apple will someday introduce, including an e-book, an exercise-pedometer doohickey and an augmented-reality HMD to turn you into a nerdly Terminator at maclife.com/article/feature/apple_their_eyes.