Well, it’s that time of the year — no, not that dirty rhyme about frost on the pumpkin — time for the endless parade of end-of-year lists. Yesterday, we blogged about a list that actually didn’t suck, Fortune’s Scariest Tech list.
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Today, we present you with TIME’s Best Inventions 2006. Here, the list itself is scary, or at least lame, one of those completely vapid gee-whiz tech round-ups of concept crap and overpriced Hammacher Schlemmer fodder. It’s the kind of hype-infested, “playing to your base” tech reportage that helped inspire Street Tech. And look, it’s our fave perpetually “coming soon” robot, the NEC PaPeRo.
