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This week in Crave: The flipping-out edition

This week brought us invisibility cloaks, pooping robots, and lots of free phones. We all like free stuff, right?

Matt Hickey
With more than 15 years experience testing hardware (and being obsessed with it), Crave freelance writer Matt Hickey can tell the good gadgets from the great. He also has a keen eye for future technology trends. Matt has blogged for publications including TechCrunch, CrunchGear, and most recently, Gizmodo. Matt is a member of the CNET Blog Network and is not an employee of CBS Interactive. E-mail Matt.
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This week brought us invisibility cloaks, pooping robots, and lots of free phones. We all like free stuff, right?

• Rumor alert! T-Mobile might get the iPhone before Verizon.

pancake-flipping robot
Meet the pancake bot. Should IHOP be worried? Video screenshot by Tim Hornyak/CNET

• If free bumpers won't make iPhone complainers feel better, Samsung UK is trying free Galaxy S phones.

• Not to be outdone, Microsoft is giving its staff Windows Phone 7s. Windows Phones 7? Window Phones 7s?

• Microsoft also prices the neat Kinect Xbox accessory at $149.

• Yet more invisibility cloak technology: Will it be the salvation of perverted eighth graders everywhere?

• We ask you: Do you still buy music CDs in 2010?

• These robots should make a love connection: One flips pancakes, which the other can eat and then, well, poop.

• Sony lets high schoolers build and launch a rocket; what could possibly go wrong?

• These billboards know a lot about you.

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