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Globe and Mail - Most Evil Gadget: GZ PC-Sport The obsession with desk-bound exercise continued unabated this year. The worst piece of office exercise equipment was the GZ PC-Sport, a step machine that connects to your computer and fits under your desk. If you stop Take me there..

Chicago Tribune - The gadget searches for Bluetooth devices where users haven’t changed the manufacturer-provided default passwords. The machine then enters the default password and accesses information through the now-open Bluetooth connection. “You’ll walk through Take me there..

Daily Telegraph - Stumped by a gadget gift? Try Digital Life agony uncle Rick Maybury’s seven-step recovery programme Youngsters of today cannot begin to imagine the devastating effect a forgetful parent and the words “batteries not included” could have on a Christmas Take me there..

Pocket-Link.co.uk - 1 January 2008 10:48 GMT - In the latest Pocket-lint reader poll, we decided to take a look at the shopping habits of our tech-loving readership. When asked “Will you be buying gadgets in the January Sales?”, 64% of the Pocket-lint readership said Take me there..

Pocket-Link.co.uk - If you live in the UK, get ready to be talk about the Zune. It might have been launched in the US for some time now, but that isn’t going to stop Microsoft bringing its iPod wannabe to Great Britain in 2008. As for other manufacturers, Creative is Take me there..

News.com.au - We took stock of this gadget uprising and picked out the best and worst technology and trends of the year. The best technology of 2007 iPod Touch TIME magazine called Apple’s iPhone the greatest invention of 2007 and humorist Dave Barry commented that Take me there..

Chicago Tribune - Get organized Looking down your list of New Year’s resolutions, you’re bound to come across ‘Get better organized.’ The Web has a few ingenious — and free — programs ready to help bring order to your daily life. Eric Gwinn: Gadget Adviser January 1 Take me there..

Yakima Herald Republic - Although the mailings are regulated by a congressional commission to guard against overt political appeals, they are a handy gadget to keep an incumbent’s mug and positions before voters on a regular basis. They’re not always noted for depth of debate Take me there..

Boston Globe - Workers are rethinking gadget addiction, and asking whether constantly chopping up and switching tasks is all that efficient. “Americans value efficiency, achievement, success, busy-ness, and it makes our society very rich but deprives us of an Take me there..

Bridgeton News - Don’t the Web’s whiz kids ever take a break? Don’t they sleep? Eat? Apparently not. Though a gadget, the iPhone, was hands down the most noteworthy personal technology development of the past year, but 2007 also saw a veritable avalanche of Internet Take me there..

The Independent - In a society where we think of so many things as disposable, where we expect to be constantly discarding last year’s gadget and replacing it with this year’s model do we end up tempted to think of people and relationships as disposable? Are we so Take me there..

Los Angeles Times - His entrance Sunday, a “Mission Impossible”-style descent from the theater’s rafters, cast him as a gadget-wielding superhero. But most of his dance routines showed how adept he is at vintage skills such as popping and locking or head spins. His own Take me there..

Christian Today - In a society where we think of so many things as disposable; where we expect to be constantly discarding last year’s gadget and replacing it with this year’s model - do we end up tempted to think of people and relationships as disposable? Are we so Take me there..

Statesman Journal - A mileage fee system would rely on an electronic gadget at the pump and one in each car that measures miles driven. Programming could allow for different rates on congested stretches, at rush hours and in various zones related to availability of mass Take me there..

Buffalo News - iPhone, therefore iAm The year s gotta-have gadget was Apple s latest cutely designed grenade in the technology wars. When the phone hit stores in June, fans waited in line for hours to be the first to buy it, thus ensuring that Steve Jobs had a Take me there..

Silicon Valley - Worldwide sales of semiconductors climbed 2.3 percent in November, as high oil prices and spreading mortgage woes did not dissuade gadget buyers. But annual growth for the the semiconductor industry could still fall short of forecasts, George Scalise Take me there..