Wired's 2012 Gear of the Year — wired.com

One of the coolest things about working at Wired is we get to use and review a ton of new gear. One of the worst things about working at Wired is we have to use and review a ton of new gear. The law of averages demands that most of the stuff we get will be lame. For every Kindle Paperwhite, there's an uninspired Android smartphone, iPhone case with a bottle opener and a rushed-to-market Windows 8 tablet. Too much of the gadgets and gear that cross our desks are iterative improvements or blatant ripoffs and hardly worth our time. But they only make us appreciate the good stuff that much more.

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