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Digital City 137: Glasses-free 3D laptops, 20 years of the Web, and back-to-school PC buying advice

This week: Toshiba's glasses-free 3D laptop has gone from prototype to release in record time, we pick our favorite back-to-school systems, and the world wide web hits 20 years old.

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Dan Ackerman leads CNET's coverage of computers and gaming hardware. A New York native and former radio DJ, he's also a regular TV talking head and the author of "The Tetris Effect" (Hachette/PublicAffairs), a non-fiction gaming and business history book that has earned rave reviews from the New York Times, Fortune, LA Review of Books, and many other publications. "Upends the standard Silicon Valley, Steve Jobs/Mark Zuckerberg technology-creation myth... the story shines." -- The New York Times
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Watch this: Ep. 137: Glasses-free 3D laptops, 20 years of the web, and back-to-school PC buying advice

This week: Toshiba's glasses-free 3D laptop has gone from prototype to release in record time; we pick our favorite back-to-school systems; and the World Wide Web hits 20 years old. The gang ponders the recent success of Xbox Live games such as Fruit Ninja Kinect and Bastion, and we take an informal poll on Google Plus and Spotify use.

Special guests this week are TJ Allard and Josh Goldman. You may remember TJ as one of Dan's co-panelists on the cult favorite video game shows Play Value and Best Game Ever. Check out some old Play Value episodes on YouTube, and we've embedded one below for kicks.

Bonus: Download the show's jaunty theme song as a free MP3 here.

Related links

• From prototype to retail: the no-glasses 3D laptop
• Twenty Years Ago, The World Logged Online For The First Time
• How is Spotify doing?

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