2009 was a pretty decent year in tech history--we saw the introduction of a few new operating systems, a bunch of would-be iPhone killers, and Blu-ray disc players for less than $100. These news items struck us as fairly significant announcements, but how popular were they with our readers? We spent some time identifying and analyzing the ten most widely read PCWorld.com articles published in 2009--and found that readership was higher for pieces on violent video games and strange Google Street Views than on Google's new OS.
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PC World's Top 5 Most Dangerous Videos
From time to time, our editors and reviewers get the opportunity to perform "stress" and "durability" tests on the products that arrive in our labs. These five videos represent the most dangerous or destructive of the rigorous "scientific" tests that we've come up with. After you check out one of the videos, click the back button on your browser to come back to this page to watch more tech products taking some punishment. In our Digital Demolition show, Editor Chris Holt manhandled an external hard drive, the ioSafe Solo, that's designed to withstand home catastrophes such as floods and fires. After a dunking in a public fountain and a run-in with a 3000-degree fire cannon, could the ioSafe still deliver our data?
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