Too busy telling Steve Ballmer he was late to keep up with Crave this week? No worries, you're just in time for our weekly look back at some of the most noteworthy, weird, and wonderful stories we covered.

Move over Vista, there's a new operating system in town.
Dell Adamo XPS: The genie bottle of laptops.
Amazon extinguished the Sprint-powered Kindle; should it be worried about Barnes & Noble's Nook?
The MacBook got an upgrade, but how do you feel about going FireWire-free?
Get ready for the Droid. And oops!
Watch out for that tree, skiing robot.
Cold? Wrap yourself in a Cone Nebula quilt.
Marriage proposal by patent application--aw, we love it when geeks get creative.
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