From the editor: Introducing Engadget's new contributors

We've got some big news about some awesome new additions to the editorial team here at Engadget:

• Phillip Torrone, gadget geek extraordinaire, will be writing a weekly column for us with all sorts of tips and hacks for getting the most out of your gadgets. His column will run every Friday, and his very first column, about reading RSS feeds on your iPod, should be up later this afternoon.

• Gareth Edwards, who runs one of our favorite Japanese technology blogs, Dottocomu, and is a translator, writer and musician living in Japan, will be joining us as our new Tokyo correspondent.

• We also have two new contributing editors: Katie Fehrenbacher, a reporter for the Yomiuri Shimbun, the largest daily newspaper in Japan, who will be covering the social side of gadgets for us; and Bernie Yee, who teaches video game design at Columbia University and who ran product development for Sony Online Entertainment and En-Tranz Enterainement, will be focusing on the video game industry.

Please join me in welcoming them aboard!