Maybe you've been to one of our reader meetups, or heard about the good gadgety times that roll when Engadget comes to town.

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The Vulcan Flipstart is one of those products that just gets you juiced up about gadgets, because really, what's more gadgety than a full-fledged computer that you can slide into a coat pocket?

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At the end of the day, maybe statistically you'll be safer not wearing the signature white headphones, but we're more likely to encourage you to to use something else just to keep the PR vultures from beaming about other peoples' gadgety misfortune.

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Primping aside, it will be interesting to see whether consumers agree with Siu and Intel chairman Craig Barrett that Nicholas Negroponte's OLPC is little more than a gadgety PDA, or whether free, robust open-source software is more appealing to the budget-conscious geek.

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