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Indeed it was a banner year here at Engadget — completely thanks to you, of course. Google may have its Zeitgeist, but we figured we could at least cap things off with a few lists of the most well-read posts of 2007 (and a few stats, to boot). Also, don’t forget to check out the lists at Engadget Mobile and Engadget HD! See you in 2008!

Top 20 most trafficked posts of 2007 (in order)

1. Live from Macworld 2007: Steve Jobs keynote
2. Steve Jobs live — Apple’s “The beat goes on” special event
3. Live from Apple’s summer Mac product press conference
4. The Apple iPhone
5. Steve Jobs live from WWDC 2007
6. Xbox 360 Elite: new, black limited edition Xbox with HDMI and 120GB drive
7. iPhone unlocked: AT&T loses iPhone exclusivity, August 24, 2007, 12:00PM EDT
8. iPhone review
9. The second Xbox 360 revealed: codename Zephyr
10. Nokia’s iPhone — no, seriously
11. Live from Apple’s “Mum is no longer the word” event in London
12. Apple keynote: live from NAB 2007
13. Is this the new iMac keyboard?
14. iPhone & LG KE850: separated at birth?
15. The Wii Laptop!
16. Apple’s iPod touch gets official
17. The Motorola RAZR 2
18. LG’s KE850 PRADA official: iPhone says, wha?
19. Leopard vs. Vista: feature chart showdown
20. Xbox 360 Elite vs. classic: the test

Man, people really seem to like Apple. Click on for more.

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We know you’ve had plenty of time to recreate that shutter release hack, and if you found yourself impressed with the results, you’re bound to adore this one. Eagleapex has struck again with yet another swank camera mod, this time giving DSLR owners an easy (and affordable) method for handling time lapse photography. Granted, this creation isn’t the simplest to build, and there’s still a few notable limitations that keep it from supreme greatness — namely the inaccurate interval setting and the occasionally problematic short output pulse — but neither of those quirks are ones that pros can’t remedy when concocting their own. Check out a video of the results after the jump, and don’t ever say that watching ice melt is a bore.

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It’s (still) New Year’s Eve out here in the States, meaning in a few more hours you’ll not only see what it’s like to live in the future (i.e. 2008), but you’ll also lose your last chance to enter to win two round trip tickets on JetBlue (and some noise canceling headphones, to boot). Check out the rules, and to the young’ns out there, remember: if someone tells you that you’re going to a “key party” tonight, we recommend you politely bow out.

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Although we don’t encourage you to lower your standards in 2008 like so many already have, our eyes did rest upon a couple of janky devices that you might want to take a gander at before the year’s through. Just don’t look too long, they might make you blind — or somehow willing to shell out some cash. Which, we cannot say. Crapgadget signing off for 2007.

Read - The most massive iPod touch knockoff you ever did see. Ok, so it’s probably not that big, and just suffered from a crappy image editor. [Thanks to everyone who sent this in]
Read - Yeah, it’s a mango talking clock, so what?
Read - “State of the art” Versus Scoreboard / boombox. Righteous garbage.
Read - TakeTV goes the way of SDHC in the TV Card Player
Read - USB egg cluster (huh?)

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Now here’s a rather inexpensive way to get your gaming fix on-the-go, since thre is no need to purchase additional cartridges once you fork out $39 for the Mega Drive Portable. You get well loved classics such as Sonic and Knuckles, Ristar, Alex Kidd in the Enchanted Castle, Golden Axe, Ecco the Dolphin and Altered Beast among others. Features include a backlit LCD display as well as the ability to output to a TV via composite video if you happen to be at home and want to see the bigger picture. Word on the street has it that the audio reproduction isn’t 100% accurate, gameplay and graphics closely resemble the original. Retro gaming looks to be back in a big way.

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It looks like that Mega Drive Portable we caught sight of a couple of months back is no longer exclusive to retro-happy gamers in Brazil, as a suspiciously similar-looking device has recently turned up for order at Play-Asia.com. As with the TecToy version, this one from AtGames is apparently officially licensed by Sega, and includes the very same line-up of twenty Genesis titles, including Golden Axe and Altered Beast, among other games with decidedly less hacking and slashing. Best of all, this incarnation the handheld is also a good deal cheaper than the TecToy, with it setting you back just $40. According to some early buyers, however, it seems that the emulation isn’t entirely faithful to the originals, but at that price it’s hard to complain too much.

[Via technabob]

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To usher in the New Year, here’s more shots of iPod clones that clearly suffer from a bad case of low self-esteem. Note the need to print the word “iPod” right under the displays? Needless to say, the one of the right is (ironically) the more authentic clone. Guess 2008 still won’t be the end of iPod clones. These fake iPods can be found in Hanoi, Vietnam (and no doubt other countries where piracy rates remain high), retailing for approximately $40 a pop after conversion for 1GB of storage space. These aren’t Click Wheels that you see, as they’re just regular buttons shaped after Apple’s Click Wheel format.

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In the latest major twist in this epic battle between wireless chipmakers, a US District Judge has slapped a permanent injunction on any products containing those Qualcomm 3G chips ruled to be infringing on Broadcom’s so-called ‘686 patents. Not only can Qualcomm no longer offer infringing devices nor the chips themselves in the US, the retroactive nature of the ruling means that the company can’t even provide service or technical support for ‘686 products already on the market. At this point, with a voluntary licensing agreement seemingly off the table, the next move for Qualcomm is establishing a plan of action to show Judge James Selna how it plans to redesign its products into compliance. [Warning: PDF link]

[Via Reuters]

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CES 2008 will be the platform where the Noahpad UMPC is paraded, and the device has been dubbed “classmate, roommate, and travelmate”. It is powered by Ubuntu 7.10 by default, but has more than enough firepower to run Windows XP thanks to its 1GHz VIA C7 Eden processor (CX700 chipset). Other hardware specifications include a 30GB hard drive, 512MB RAM, a 7″ LED backlit display and a QWERTY keyboard. According to E-Lead, the Noahpad’s manufacturer, it will feature a yet-unknown input technology that claims to be revolutionary, but I will take that claim with a pinch of salt. While it might be called the Noahpad, you won’t find any waterproof capability on this little UMPC.

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To get around IP lawsuits, Canon plans on developing their own SED technology that works better than the type they’re being sued over. [Bloomberg]

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