In Pictures: Top 10 tech gadgets of 2012

We’re still a few months away from 2013, but most of the hot gadgets have been released, or will be by November, in time for the holiday gift-buying season.

Microsoft Surface

Release date: October 26

The Surface marks Microsoft’s attempt to break into the tablet market with its own product. This has sparked concern by OEMs selling Windows 8 tablets that would also, obviously, have to compete against Microsoft’s offering. What’s more significant is that the Surface uses an ARM processor; thus, its version of Windows (called Windows RT) had to be rewritten specifically for it. That means this tablet cannot run Windows applications originally written for an x86 processor. So essentially Microsoft introduced a brand-new OS platform this year through the Surface.

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