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NOTE: From now through December, every few days a different Crave expert will be posting his or her top 10 gadget picks for the holidays. See what we crave, and maybe you'll get some ideas! Here's our eighth installment.

Neha Tiwari is an associate video producer for CNET News.com, not to mention a cold-weather aficionado. Snowboarding, Lord of the Rings marathons, and hot cocoa top her list of pastimes when the weather gets chilly. She is the only person named Neha at CNET, and a lethal geek triple-threat. She knows how to do all the special moves … Read more

NOTE: From now through December, every few days a different Crave expert will be posting his or her top 10 gadget picks for the holidays. See what we crave, and maybe you'll get some ideas! Here's our seventh installment.

Erica Ogg is an unapologetic Dodgers fan living in San Francisco, has found herself hopelessly addicted to Starbucks chai lattes (with 2 percent milk), and readily admits to being a history geek. And no, she has nothing to do with Ogg Vorbis.

1. LG Chocolate. So the first version was panned by a lot of critics, but the second … Read more

NOTE: From now through December, every few days a different Crave expert will be posting his or her top 10 gadget picks for the holidays. See what we crave, and maybe you'll get some ideas! Here's our sixth installment.

Whether her wanderlust leads to GPSing cross-country, searching for cell signals on the Lido, capturing the Tuileries' twilight with a DSLR, or dragging an iPod through Kauai, Candace Lombardi always finds her way back to tech-crazed Cambridge.

1. Sony Reader. I pack way too many books when traveling, and my laptop and iPod batteries never seem to last the … Read more

NOTE: From now through December, every few days a different Crave expert will be posting his or her top 10 gadget picks for the holidays. See what we crave, and maybe you'll get some ideas! Here's our fifth installment.

Lindsey Turrentine is CNET's executive editor of mobile technology. Anything she craves is probably something that gives her more time with her two lovely young children (or is something that cleans up after them, or blocks out the noise they generate, or helps Lindsey forget that she has two small kids that she, of course, loves very much). … Read more

NOTE: From now through December, different Crave experts will be posting their top 10 gadget picks for the holidays. Here's our fourth installment.

Senior Editor Dan Ackerman is a former radio DJ turned journalist. Starting with a short-lived stint at an equally short-lived beer magazine 10 years ago, he's covered video games, gadgets, nightlife, and music for publications such as USA Today, PC Magazine, Sync, and Blender. Dan is currently on CNET's laptops beat.

1. Sony PlayStation 3 -- People are already standing in line outside stores around the country for this $600 gaming machine. While I'… Read more

NOTE: From now through December, every few days a different Crave expert will be posting his or her top 10 gadget picks for the holidays. See what we crave, and maybe you'll get some ideas! Here's our third installment.

Leslie Katz is an editor at CNET's San Francisco headquarters. When she's not wrestling with commas and semicolons, she's probably reading, gardening or TiVo'ing.

1. iRobot Scooba. I may be a clean-freak, but I can't seem to keep my linoleum floors as shiny and happy as I'd like them to be. With this … Read more

Silicon Valley start-up EasyReach, has given BlackBerry addicts and Treoholics yet another reason to be constantly thumb-typing with brows furrowed.

The idea is to check as many items off a to-do list as possible using just a mobile phone, said EasyReach CEO John Stossel.

EasyReach is a free mobile application that lets users shop for things like books on Amazon.com, expertly shredded denim from Abercrombie & Fitch, add movies to a Netflix queue, or rent a sports car or hotel room. Or, send last-minute flowers or a card right from the phone. It's called "Express Shopping" … Read more

NOTE: From now through December, every few days a different Crave expert will be posting his or her top 10 gadget picks for the holidays. See what we crave, and maybe you'll get some ideas! Here's our second installment.

Will Greenwald works at CNET's Manhattan office, covering cameras, camcorders, and video games. If he's not writing at his desk or shooting in a park, he'll probably be scoping comics and toys at Forbidden Planet or getting some hardcore gaming done in his apartment.

1. Nintendo Wii. What else can be said? Nintendo's new system … Read more

NOTE: From now through December, every few days a different Crave expert will be posting his or her top 10 gadget picks for the holidays. See what we crave, and maybe you'll get some ideas! Here's our first installment.

Caroline McCarthy lives in downtown Manhattan and is very, very sad that after tomorrow there will be no new "Lost" episodes until February. She can beat all three of her roommates at Pac-Man.

1. Skullcandy Ti Chick headphones. I'm going to get this out of the way right now. This is the one and only "… Read more