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October 24, 2009 6:00 AM PDT

This week in Crave: The 'say yes' edition

by Leslie Katz
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Too busy telling Steve Ballmer he was late to keep up with Crave this week? No worries, you're just in time for our weekly look back at some of the most noteworthy, weird, and wonderful stories we covered.

Nook (Credit: Barnes & Noble)

Move over Vista, there's a new operating system in town.

• Dell Adamo XPS: The genie bottle of laptops.

• Amazon extinguished the Sprint-powered Kindle; should it be worried about Barnes & Noble's Nook?

• The MacBook got an upgrade, but how do you feel about going FireWire-free?

• Get ready for the Droid. And oops!

• Watch out for that tree, skiing robot.

• Cold? Wrap yourself in a Cone Nebula quilt.

• Marriage proposal by patent application--aw, we love it when geeks get creative.

See anything we missed? Working on an amazing invention we should know about? Write to us at crave at cnet dot com.

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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