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You think Apple was an innovator in the world of personal media players? Think again.
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The Bold 9700 was a premium cellphone from a company at the top of its game. Does it merit the fawning reviews it collected in 2009?
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The Cowon D2 DAB was a media player ahead of its time. There was nothing like it in 2005, and there still isn't.
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What's the real reason that cellphone manufacturers stopped fitting this simple, robust connector?

Despite its low initial price, the Shield K1 continues to put modern Android tablets to shame.
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There was a time when we didn't hate printers. Unfortunately, it was forty years ago.
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One of the earliest mass-market car satnav units, the Garmin Nuvi 300 still has features that modern devices lack. Why is that?
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The Pronto offers a salutary lesson in how an excellent product can die, leaving a gaping hole in the market that nobody wants to fill.
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In a market dominated by the Amazon Kindle, it's easy to forget that Sony, not Amazon, made the first commercially-successful e-book reader.
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The elegant simplicity and serviceability of this compact power ampliifer has given it an enthusiastic following for nearly forty years.

The REX was the world's first, and last, credit-card-sized personal computing device. Why did it fail?
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This simple analog computer has served humanity for more than four centuries. Shouldn't we try to preserve it?
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How worried should we be, that we're wasting electrical energy for no benefit?
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Why half a million people learned to program in Pascal, when you'd think they had no earthly reason to.
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The Vectrex used an entirely novel display technology that was superior to the TV-based displays of the time. Why didnt it catch on?
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Why are sales of vinyl records increasing, when digital streaming services provide access to almost any recording ever made, in superior technical quality?

In praise of an iconic laptop computer.
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