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Guid ral
’TIS THE SEASON TO
COVET WILDLY.
?
What’s on Your Wish List?
Join thousands of other readers at
FastCompany.com to voice your own
must-haves this holiday season.
• Tech Gear
of the Year
Smartphones, fat-screens,
robots, green tech—we
wade through it all to ID
the coolest innovations,
including Sony’s absurdly
svelte, impressively vibrant
XEL- 1 TV screen and the
newly customizable Flip
Mino video camera.
• Gamers’ Guide
From Guitar Hero: World
Tour (take that, Rock
Band!) to LittleBigPlanet,
we weigh in on the top
10 games guaranteed
to eat up your holiday
vacation. Go ahead and
clear your schedule.
• Objects of Design
Marcel Wanders, one of
Fast Company’s 2008
Masters of Design, raised
eyebrows (and captured
our design-loving hearts)
with his Snotty Vases,
modeled on actual
airborne mucus run
through a 3-D scanner.
• Best Business
Books 2008
“You wouldn’t believe
how many bad books get
published each year,” says
senior editor David Lidsky.
He pans through the
looming stacks in search
of gold for this year’s
must-read roundup.
• Secret Santa’s
Little Helper
Put your offce mates
to shame or gift yourself
a newly tricked-out offce
with this drool-worthy
work gear, from an Ettore
Sottsass Bacterio etched
business-card case to
Logitech’s sexy wireless
diNovo Edge keyboard.
for all this and more Web-exclusive content, go online to fastcompany.com/web.
Photographs: Maarten van Houten (Snotty Vase); Courtesy of Sony (OLED TV), Pure Digital
Technologies (Mino camera), Activision (Guitar Hero), Fuseproject (Leaf Lamp), Logitech
(keyboard), Acme Studio (business-card case)
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