Magazine’s Product Of Year Doesn’t Actually Exist
And the product of the year 2009 is… The Apple Tablet! No, wait. The Sony Unicorn! Erm, Duke Nukem Forever?
In fact, Popular Mechanics product of the year is the Crunchpad, from Tech Crunch’s Michael Arrington, and distinguished by being just as non-existent as the products listed above.
Surely Popular Mechanics just means products announced, or in the prototype stage in 2009? Sadly, no. “Popular Mechanics awards the top 10 most brilliant gadgets, tools and toys that you can buy in 2009” says the tagline. And here’s the caption, which at least points out that the machine is not yet in your local Best buy:
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