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Bots, bombs, and weird science: The zaniest tech stories of 2009

From iPhone app trouble to Stephen Colbert toilets and levitating mice, the high-tech way-out-there machine was at its best this year

By Michael Cooney | Network World

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The wackiest tech stories of 2009
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Super car aims to rocket past 1,000 mph
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Do you come here often?
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Will Twitter for job
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No poo in my space pot
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Colbert loses NASA toilet
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The Borg lives?
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The father of all bombs
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Air Force: Future drones can make their own attack decisions
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Beer, bras, and cows, must be science
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Programmable bombs
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Lean, mean, and teeny-weeny fighting machines
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Killer asteroids getting free pass on NASA's watch?
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The airborne military laser
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Space junk
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Texas-sized identity theft
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Colossal spy airships get real
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Turkey poo and lights too
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The shape-shifting bot
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Smart robot that hunts for its own food
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VMware exec to the woodshed
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Baby Shaker
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Going up? Way up
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Mighty Mouse redux?
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Flying car
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The robot armada
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See another slideshow: The IT industry graveyard 2009

See another slideshow: The IT industry graveyard 2009

After that tour through the kookier tech stories of the year, it might be nice to stop and pay respects to the companies and products that didn't survive to 2010.

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December 18, 2009

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