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October 17, 2009 5:50 AM PDT

This week in Crave: The floating-on-hot-air edition

by Leslie Katz
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Too busy hiding in a box in your parent's attic to keep up with Crave this week? Well, batten down the hot-air balloons and flying saucers, readers. It's time for the weekly Crave roundup, wherein we remind you of some of the more interesting/weird/wonderful stories we had our eyes on.

The Blob lives!

• Welcome back Polaroid insta-cams.

• We clicked with the Moto Cliq.

Dyson fan (Credit: Dyson)

• White men can't jump, but robot cockroaches can.

• Warning to iPhones: Beware of bears.

• What, a fan with no blades?

Myths of modern LCDs.

• Yahoo brings on da funk--and the metal, Latin, and reggae.

• Barnes & Noble e-book reader surprise: two displays. But are they solar-powered?

See anything we missed? Got a great gadget tip we should know about? Write to us at crave at cnet dot com. And remember, we want your spookiest tech tales.

Leslie Katz, senior editor of CNET's Crave, covers gadgets, games, and most other digital distractions. As a co-host of the CNET News Daily Podcast, she sometimes tries to channel Terry Gross. E-mail Leslie.
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