When this year began, you were feverishly speculating about an Apple tablet, seeking deliver to 3-D TV sets, and optimistically watchful is to finish of the line companies' vicious hold on our wallets.
We had to choose a out of three. While manufacturers did let go a handful of 3-D TVs, there's only not sufficient calm (either on line or Blu-ray) to clear purchasing a yet. The heavy, costly eyeglasses you must be purchase do not make the tender any more attractive, either.
And as for getting all our video from the sweet, ever-flowing annuity of the internet? Sure, you still do that " when we're at work. But at home, internet TV is still struggling to mount on its own. The device we'd pinned our hopes on, the Boxee Box, is uncompleted and buggy. Google TV is hampered by the rejection of the TV networks to fool around ball. Apple TV waste sealed in to its own small iTunes-centric world.
So that leaves the Apple tablet. If you'd told us in December 2009 that we'd be using the word "iPad" every day without giggling, well, you would have giggled at you. But there it is: There's no getting around the fact that the iPad, ridiculous name and all, has entirely and successfully redefined what a "tablet computer" could be.
But the iPad was far from being the only large device headlines of the year. E-readers, cameras, and even exoskeletons done outrageous strides in 2010. Here, then, are the 10 gadgets that were many poignant in 2010.
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