In Pictures: The 31 weirdest, wackiest and coolest sci/tech stories of 2012
From Google Android development to crazy iPhone stunts, it’s been a busy year
As we take our annual look at the year in the cool and the wacky we find a ton of high-tech goodness, from the 300,000 virtual Android-based device network being constructed by the Sandia National Laboratory to the Kansas City program that looks to give interested entrepreneurial-types free room and board to access Google's ultra-fast fiber network. There were major wacky stories as well of course. Take a look.
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