The latest gadgets and tech toys.

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• The Super Phone You Can Get for Free Ditch your Treo for a dirt-cheap Nokia.
  Paul Boutin Dec. 15, 2004
  
• HD-DVD Must Die Sony's Blu-ray is the better next-generation DVD.
  Paul Boutin Dec. 8, 2004
  
• Voom Times Finally, some HDTV that's worth watching.
  Fred Kaplan Nov. 23, 2004
  
• XM vs. the iPod Will XM's new portable satellite radio make the iPod obsolete?
  Paul Boutin Oct. 26, 2004
  
• How To Hack Your Head A buyer's guide to recreational brain scanning.
  Steven Johnson April 23, 2004
  
• The Valet You Don't Have To Tip The mesmerizing extravagance of mechanized parking.
  Josh Levin April 1, 2004
  
• On the Road, Again? The best ways to listen to MP3s in your car.
  Peter Rojas March 30, 2004
  
• Local Motives Why the FCC should scrap its absurd rules for satellite radio.
  Thomas Hazlett March 16, 2004
  
• Tomorrow's Soldier Today Robot soldiers! Bird-sized airplanes! The Phraselator! At DARPATech, the military shows off its coolest gadgets.
  Phillip Carter March 11, 2004
  
• Player, Attack Thyself Why Japanese gamers love avenging Pearl Harbor.
  Clive Thompson Feb. 25, 2004
  
• Requiem for the V-Chip A relic of the last battle over indecency on TV.
  Thomas Hazlett Feb. 13, 2004
  
• Avert Your Eyes! High-definition porn has arrived. That's bad news for HDTV.
  Brendan I. Koerner Feb. 2, 2004
  
• Dispatches From CES HDTVs hit the mass market.
  Fred Kaplan Jan. 9, 2004