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The hardest part about assembling any year-end list of "best products" is coming up with the selection criteria. Sure, we could just look at the scores of everything we reviewed in a calendar year and select the products with the highest ratings. But that's lazy, and not really useful since you can just do that yourself. We could also just pick the most buzzed-about products. Also easy: Oculus Rift and Google Glass. But neither are things you can actually buy in finished form yet. So for 2013's Gear of the Year list, we took the practical route. What follows is a list of products we consider no-brainer purchases. If you're in the market for something new, you absolutely can't lose with any of these picks. Not every category is represented. We didn't pick headphones, for example — our favorite headphones came out years ago. But most of the major product categories saw big enough innovations this year that you'll find them on this list.
So as we bid goodnight to 2013, we say hello to the year's best stuff.
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