Maybe the weird-looking Star Wars cloners have some way of artificially producing egg cells.

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But the need for faders and knobs remains, and has inspired two slightly weird-looking gadgets.

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In case Dell's convertible XPS 12 is too expensive (or weird-looking) for your tastes, the company's got a more traditional sort of Ultrabook on tap.

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Of course, many other games like the weird-looking Puppeteer on PSN, the highly-anticipated DUST 514 free-to-play shooter, and Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time help flesh out the many PlayStation exclusives of 2013.

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But even if it is, the whole idea raises that interesting question and suggests, to me at least, a better way to deal with the problem than weird-looking instruments of torture that enforce certain postures and hand gestures.

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Kind of weird I suppose, looking at something like that where the critics reacted so favorably.

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It starred a villain with a weird accent, had retro-looking production design and seemed poised to be a middling success at best.

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Unfortunately, while those parts of the world could have been limited to Greece and Iceland, and maybe California, with deft political action, instead we are now looking at the potential breakup of the euro and (it is weird to be writing this in the 107F heat of Arizona) the loss of its AAA credit rating by the biggest economy on earth.

BBC: USA, Euro: Crunch time