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Gory 'Saw' Gadgets Catapult Creator Into Director's Chair

Filmmaker David Hackl goes from concocting torture traps for the horror series to helming Saw V, which opens Friday.

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24.10.2008 19:54:00 - Wired: Top Stories

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Real Ad Men Talk About Mad Men

Every week on Mad Men, the men and women at Sterling Cooper create and design retro 1960s ad campaigns, all while obsessively chain-smoking, drinking and womanizing. Looking for a little fact in the fiction of Mad Men, Wired.com is asking some real-world ad executives to talk about the show’s realism and relevance to the advertising industry today. This week, we spoke with Bill Tucker, CEO, and Brian Terkelsen, EVP, of Mediavest.

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24.10.2008 17:30:00 - Wired: Top Stories

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Why Is the iPhone Such a Crummy Note Pad?

The iPhone and iPod Touch might seem like the perfect devices for taking notes. So why are all the note-taking apps so poor?

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24.10.2008 16:51:36 - Wired: Top Stories

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From Pawns to People, 'Star Wars' Clones Evolve

Clone Wars' mass-produced military men get a much-needed injection of humanity (and so do the show's bumbling droids). The end result is a welcome fleshing out of the Star Wars multiverse.

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24.10.2008 16:49:00 - Wired: Top Stories

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Show Us Your Favorite Portable Music Player

In honor of the iPod's seventh birthday, we're asking readers to submit photos of their favorite portable music players, new and old. Have a clunky old Walkman lying around? An off-brand iPod wannabe that you love? Shoot a photo of it and share it with us.

Use the Reddit widget below to submit your best portable music player photo and vote for your favorite among the other submissions. If we like your photo, we'll include it in a gallery on Wired.com.

The photo must be your own, and by submitting it you are giving us permission to use it on Wired.com and in Wired magazine. Please submit images that are relatively large, the ideal size being 800 to 1200 pixels or larger on the longest side. Please include a description of your photo so that other readers know what they're looking at.

We don't host the photos, so you'll have to upload it somewhere else and submit a link to it. If you're using Flickr, Picasa or another photo-sharing site to host your image, please provide a link to the image directly and not just to the photo page where it's displayed. Using an online photo service that requires that you log in will not work. If your photo doesn't show up, it's because the URL you have entered is incorrect. Check it and make sure it ends with the image file name (XXXXXX.jpg).

Please bookmark this page, send it to your friends and check back periodically over the next two weeks to vote on new submissions!

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23.10.2008 06:00:00 - Wired: Top Stories

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Raising the Genius Bar: 7 Years of iPod Evolution

: Photo: Robyn Twomey/Wired

It has been seven years since Steve Jobs announced the first "perfect thing" in the fall of 2001. Since then, very few products have come to exact total domination in their respected fields like the iPod has. And really, no other gadget in recent memory (save for maybe the iPhone) has exploded onto the cultural cache with the same impact. Hell, your granny is probably listening to some Wu-Tang on her fourth-gen Nano right now.

Here, take a scroll down memory lane with us and see the evolution of the product from its initial rocky conception to its current button-free touchscreen interface. Come on, it'll be fun.

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Conceived Early 2001

Left: There were literally dozens of early mock-ups of the iPod that didn't make the cut. Cobbled together from foam and fishing weights, they all had one thing in common: the round control wheel adorning the front.

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Announced: October 23, 2001

Unveiled by Snoop Jobby Jobs at a special event in October 2001, the premier iPod featured a gigantic scroll wheel, a $500 price tag (for a whopping 10 GB) and was solely compatible with Macs.

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Announced: April 8, 2003

The first major redesign of the iPod sported touch-sensitive buttons for menu access, rewind, fast-forward and play/pause. It also was the first iPod to drop MusicMatch support when iTunes 4.1 was unveiled with Windows compatibility.

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Announced: January 6, 2004

Apple's very first attempt at miniaturization of the media player resulted in a 4-GB model that was available in five different hues. Also making its debut was the touch-sensitive click wheel.

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Announced: October 26, 2004

In living color! After three years of monochrome displays, the iPod got a vibrant 2-inch color screen that was also adept at showing off pictures. For the first time, the line between music player and all-in-one media device started to bleed.

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Announced: January 10, 2005

We've noticed that Apple has a tendency to drop legacy features sooner rather than later (latest example: FireWire ports from the new Macbook), but ditching the entire LCD screen? WTF?! Turns out people kinda didn't care — especially when they found out this pack-of-gum-sized device had a sub c-note price tag.

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Announced: October 26, 2004

Laser etched with the signatures of the band and festooned in a black and red paint job, this iPod was not exactly a huge commercial success. But for die-hard U2 fans, it was, uh, even better than the real thing.

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Announced: September 7, 2005

IPod Mini heir apparent, the first Nano was thinner, could be used to view pictures and was the world's first 4-GB flash player. But all was not well — critics took issue with a screen that scratched more readily than a crazed cheetah.

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Announced: September 12, 2006

Sure, it looks like it could be a toddler's belt buckle, but this anodized aluminum wonder boasted some hefty specs: 0.55 ounces, 1 GB of memory and half a dozen color options. Fun fact: For a short period of time, Apple's website cautioned customers to "not eat the iPod Shuffle."

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Announced: September 5, 2007

The first iPod with a multitouch interface. The first iPod with WiFi. The first iPod without a click wheel. No matter if you think the iPod Touch is a Jobsend or just an over-hyped disaster, one thing is for certain: It's definitely the most radical re-imagining of the device since its inception.

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23.10.2008 06:00:00 - Wired: Top Stories

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How to Do Donuts

Rev the engine, slam the accelerator and keep one foot on the clutch. Whether you're evading a tail or showing off your minivan skills, doing donuts will test your driving skills. Want to learn how to paint gravel with rubber like Bo and Luke Duke? Stunt driver Tanner Foust runs you through the steps.

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22.10.2008 23:45:00 - Wired: Top Stories

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Obamanauts Work to Turn Florida's Space Coast Blue

A dedicated group of Barack Obama supporters are pushing the senator's plans for NASA in Florida's Brevard County, home to the Kennedy Space Center and half a million residents.