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Donald Melanson

Senior Associate Editor
New Brunswick, Canada

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Richard Lawler

Senior HD Editor

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 Often found twerding it up in a Detroit club basement, Richard's been tech obsessed since first laying hands on an Atari joystick. Now fully ensconced in the HD gaming era he scours the net for the latest news on HD screens and content, only taking an occasional break to submit Dreamcast 2 rumors on Joystiq's tip form.

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Ben Drawbaugh

Contributing HD Editor
Tampa, FL

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There aren't many people out there more passionate about HD than Ben Drawbaugh. He won't watch anything that isn't presented in HD and when it comes to his home theater, he demands the best picture available. This translates into his writing as he prides himself on technical accuracy as well as bringing the news from the perspective of a videophile. When he's not writing about HD, you'll find him with his wife chasing after their two children, or driving as fast as he possibly can in his Honda.

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Darren Murph

Managing Editor
NC, USA

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 An unhealthily loyal NC State fan and alum, Darren was once forced to work a modern day CES with a Snake-laden Nokia candybar. He also attended his first LAN party at age seven, and his goal in life is to literally go everywhere. Only two of those points are true, and he might confess to which are which if you've got some airline miles you'd like to donate. Or a phone made in the last decade. He also holds the Guinness World Record for being the most prolific professional blogger on planet Earth, and is the author of 'iPad Secrets.'

Trent Wolbe

Media Producer

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 As a tween, Trent spent his days dialed up to Prodigy (and later AOL) at an average speed around 4800bps. It was there -- inside the internet -- that he found his true friends: message board geeks with an insatiable, fetishistic appetite for British electronic music. Things haven't changed much since then.

Sean Cooper

Contributing Mobile Editor
Ottawa, Canada

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Sean Cooper's been abusing tech toys since he first figured out how a screwdriver works, but only truly got lost in the mobile space when he tethered his first CDMA Nokia set to an HP Jornada. Unfortunately, Sean's quest for the ultimate mobile toy is an unwinnable game which all but guarantees him a lifetime of sore fingers, outrageous cell bills, and an ever-growing pile of retired handsets. When not playing with any one of a dozen current sets he's busily planning his children's Formula 1 careers, sipping coffee, and just generally enjoying life in Ottawa, Canada.

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Terrence O'Brien

Senior Associate Editor

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After being laid off from his tech support job in the financial industry, Terrence decided to pursue his dream of working from home in his underwear. Through a lot of dumb luck and marathon sessions of cruising Craigslist, he eventually landed his first writing gig with the now defunct (but never forgotten) Switched. Since then he has continued to hone his craft while letting his more technical skills atrophy, eventually landing at Engadget where he is finally surrounded by people just as geeky as he. When not planted firmly in front of his laptop, Terrence can be found wandering the forests and mountains of the greater New York area with things strapped to his back that don't have an LCD screen.

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Tim Stevens

Editor-in-chief

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 Tim Stevens is based in Upstate New York. He got his start writing professionally in the mid '90s, covering the gaming world while in college, and has since written on topics including business process management, software development, and of course lots and lots about gadgety type things. He's an avid gamer, amateur motorsports enthusiast, lover of most outdoor activities, and proud creator of the first (and possibly only) two-player game for the Sega VMU.

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Kevin Wong

Contributing Editor

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Exposed at an early age, Kevin has always been more interested in how things work than actually using them. Thanks to a brief run-in in the early 90's with a Lego Mindstorms kit, it seemed Kevin was destined for Engadget. He has been part of the Engadget team since late 2008, beginning his gadget career under Josh Topolsky. His biggest passions are resisting Apple products, giving Windows products a fair shake and tinkering with DSLR cameras. A graduate of New York University, with a bachelors in Computer Science and a minor in Computer Applications, Kevin now resides in Manhattan and continues to discover new aspects of technology to surround himself with.

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Richard Lai

Senior Associate Editor
Hong Kong

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Richard's love for gadgets was probably triggered by an electric shock at the age of five while poking his finger into power sockets for no reason. Since then he has managed to destroy a few more desktops and phones until he got sent to the U.K. to start secondary education. Somehow he ended up in London for university and had the golden opportunity to buy Thomas Ricker a pint of lager, and here we are. Follow him around in electronic stores and you will witness some dramatic exchanges between him and the sales reps.

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Myriam Joire

Senior Mobile Editor
San Francisco

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Myriam was born wearing combat boots and holding a keyboard; moments later she picked up a soldering iron. She's been stomping, typing and hacking ever since. After spending years being a code-monkey in the video game industry, she decided to share her experiences and thoughts on mobile technology on her blog, tnkgrl Mobile. She’s been called a “writer“, a “personality” and a “pundit“, but mostly she’s a tomboy with a fondness for other queers, punks, nerds, and misbegotten social deviants. She's senior mobile editor at Engadget and co-hosts of the Engadget Mobile podcast.

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Christopher Trout

Senior Associate Editor

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 Christopher Trout got his start at the El Paso Times at the age of 16, and has since continued to sully the family name as a freelance journalist. Over the past 12 years, he's written about Naomi Campbell's temper tantrums, America's most illustrious hustlers, and the coming of the robot apocalypse. He defines himself by the things he doesn't own, like a humanoid named Stavlos that can shake martinis and polish the silver. After graduating from the University of Texas in 2004, he moved to Oakland, CA, where he lives with his three American pit bulls and one Peruvian boyfriend.

Michael Gorman

Senior Associate Editor

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Michael Gorman is a licensed attorney and Virginia Tech grad who would welcome the chance to exchange any of his worldly possessions for one VT BCS National Championship. Despite his compulsive need to witness the Hokies' gridiron exploits, he once went an entire year without cable television in protest of his apartment's lack of HD access. In a prior stage of his life (2nd grade), Michael wrote, produced, and filmed his own episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation. His subsequent accomplishments, few and far between, pale in comparison.

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Paul Heuts

Programming Manager

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Dana Wollman

Reviews Editor

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As a lowly intern, Dana answered Oprah's phone calls and once penned a rejection letter for Gerard Depardieu's eponymous cookbook. Yet somehow she landed in the far geekier profession of tech writing, first for Laptop Mag and, later, the Associated Press. She received her first computer at four and spent the ensuing years indoors, playing Sim City, Sim Tower and, when she was really bored, Sim Farm. She sorely misses Conquest of the New World and rues the day her father beat Super Mario World while she was at sleepaway camp. An avid runner, she now spends time outside, but still uses an Excel spreadsheet to tally her mileage. It is her firmest belief that every photography nerd (or anyone, really) should find a way to go to the Galapagos Islands.

Sean Buckley

Associate Editor
San Jose, CA

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Sean has a nasty habit of disassembling nearby gadgets. Although he usually gets everything reassembled in adequate working order, you probably shouldn't lend him your phone. He's a lifelong gamer, a comic-book nerd, and an Eagle Boy Scout. A fortune cookie promised him he would one day work at Engadget. What else is there to know?

Zachary Lutz

Contributing Mobile Editor

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A native Idahoan, Zach's love for technology was kindled at an early age with the Commodore 64. He holds a marketing degree from the University of Idaho, where he also served dual roles as an Apple Certified Technician and Apple Campus Rep. An avid fan of Gonzo journalism, Coast to Coast AM and Subarus, he makes time to relish books chronicling the history of computers. Accidental Empires, Nerds 2.0.1 and Revolution in the Valley are amazing reads, and excellent starting points to learn your roots.

Brad Molen

Mobile Editor
Utah

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While he could really try to spice up his bio, Brad admits to living the quiet suburban life and raising a family nestled deep in the Rocky Mountains. What isn't quiet is his infatuation with mobile devices, having been involved in the wireless industry for the last six years and writing about it for four. If you're lucky, you may catch Brad singing or even beatboxing; since he disappears into the mountains once in a while, you may not even catch him at all. Also, Brad does a killer running man and wishes he could break dance.

Brian Heater

Senior Associate Editor
New York, NY

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Brian Heater has worked as the Senior Editor at PCMag and ran the gadget blog Gearlog. As a music and comics journalist, his writing has appeared in Spin, Entertainment Weekly, The Onion, The Daily Beast, the New York Press, and various other places. He shares a one-bedroom apartment in Queens with a pet rabbit, but has to cover the rent himself.

Zach Honig

Senior Associate Editor
New York, NY

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As obsessed with travel as he is with the latest tech, in his spare time Zach leaves his home in Manhattan to explore the globe, always setting aside time to search for unique gadgets, from the camera shops of Shinjuku to the back alleys of Shanghai, where he once shelled out 1,000 yuan to bring a KIRF iPad back for The Engadget Show. He started his career as a tech journalist writing about cameras for Popular Photography before moving over to PC Magazine, where he worked as a consumer electronics editor, with a stint at the 2008 Beijing Olympics in between. He's also covered travel for Frommer's and AOL Travel, and one day hopes to fly a single-engine Cirrus around the world, having dedicated a summer to earning his pilot's license after planes didn't fall out of the sky during Y2K.

Joe Pollicino

Associate Editor
New Jersey

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Joe has been confused for fashion designer Christian Siriano and Trent from MTV's Daria countless times, because of his funky hairstyles, tight jeans and thick-rimmed glasses. No hard feelings, though. He has a soft spot for audio-related gadgets and his pet chinchilla, Chiller. For the past few years before joining Engadget, he’s vlogged, earned some credits toward a broadcasting major in college, and toured as a bassist. Also, he’s functionally useless without his glasses -- a fact you really shouldn't disclose to any enemies.

Sharif Sakr

Senior European Editor
UK

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Engadget with a London accent. Bonkers.

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Jon Turi

Editorial Assistant
NYC

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Billy Steele

Contributing Editor
North Carolina

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A passionate Red Sox fan, his love of tech and sports keeps things interesting. He was ushered in to the gadget world by an Atari and its vices: Frogger and Grand Prix. Little did he know that this was training for the undefeated seasons he would string together in Super Tecmo Bowl as a young lad. A couple of years later, he settled into life as a graphic designer where an iMac and a smartphone would become his extra appendages. He currently lives in the balmy southeast with his wife and their cocker spaniel. He may or may not listen to Katy Perry on occasion.

Joseph Volpe

Associate Editor
New York

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Joseph is bad at math and that makes him an unlikely geek. Preferring, instead, the world of words and the world-at-large, he majored in all things international and kept up a secret love of media and tech. It wasn’t until his fall from ex-pat glory that Joseph landed his first journo gig as a news producer at TV Asahi America, and shone his nerd face to the sun. He is a strong advocate of advancing personal agenda through the power of self-controlled cable networks, and looks forward to hosting his own daytime talker. Items recently added to his bucket list include swing dancing with Teri Garr and rebooting the brilliant, but cancelled VR5. Joseph would also like to take this opportunity to thank Chloë Sevigny and Tilda Swinton (for obvious reasons).

Dante Cesa

Contributing Editor
San Francisco

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Introducing Dante to the command line at age four would prove to be a fatal mistake in the then serene and quiet lives of his parents. What would initially stem from subtle curiosity, not long would pass before his gadget lust would develop into full-blown obsession. But an extreme desire to tinker would, of course, be matched with consequences: countless hours of his childhood were spent with fdisk and restoring computers with tape backups, or a string of awkward calls to carrier's customer service attempting to explain astronomical charges from a very, very, long WAP data call. Returning to the US for college, Dante would eventually settle in San Francisco, writing for Engadget by day and being an Objective-C ninja by night.

Daniel Cooper

Contributing Editor
UK

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After training as an IP lawyer, Dan abandoned a promising career in financial services to sit at home and play with gadgets. He lives near Oxford with his fiancée, a ridiculous collection of books and far, far too many comedy DVDs. One day, if he's very lucky, he'll live out his dream to become the Executive Producer of Doctor Who before retiring to Radio 4.

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James Trew

Contributing European Editor

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 James Trew is a technology journalist originally from Bristol, UK, currently based in London. James began writing for magazines in the ‘90s reviewing Raves and interviewing DJs, before moving into a career in IT/telecoms. It wasn’t long before the two worlds merged and writing about technology, particularly in the music making world, became a full time career. Knobs buttons and faders keep him out of trouble between making bad noise on good machines.

Mat Smith

Contributing European Editor
London

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Mat once failed an audition to be the Milkybar Kid, a cowboy hat-wearing advert creation that attempted to push white chocolate on British children. Despite the early setback, just under two decades later he managed to pull off a three-year teaching stint in Japan with help from world-class internet and a smorgasbord of bizarre DS titles. He now makes a living writing for Engadget in London and spends his free time hunting down good Korean food -- preferably containing octopus.

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Andy Bowen

Editorial Assistant
North Carolina

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Andy Bowen lives in the flatlands of eastern North Carolina, where cotton and soybeans cover every inch of ground uninhabited. His love for technology began with the disassembly of a Polaroid One Step and Fisher Price tape recorder. Several manipulations later, he was hooked. For the next fifteen years Andy dreamed of working for Engadget, he just didn't know what to call it yet. Now living out that fantasy, he's a passionate musician who spends most of his free time recording and performing while also completing a degree from CTU. His obsessive personality forces a compulsive need for the newest pieces of technology available. Without the financial backing necessary for that endeavor, he's content just to write about them.

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Jason Hidalgo

Contributing Editor
Nevada

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As a “classically trained” print journalist, Jason shares a lot in common with the ill-fated dodo. Unlike the dodo, however, Jason can use the Interwebs, so the guy’s at least got a shot at escaping the extinction that threatens his beloved newspaper industry. Thanks to his reporting background, Jason has covered a range of folks from President Obama and Japanese ministry officials to software geeks and customers milling about his local Apple Store. His work has also taken him around the world, causing an even greater dependence on his gadgets to keep him sane during those excruciating 10-hour flights. An avid gamer since the days of Atari and Nintendo’s Game & Watch.

Edgar Alvarez

Contributing Editor
NYC

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Edgar started hitting newsrooms at a young age when he accompanied his dad to work; there his love for technology grew immensely. He developed two passions: gadgets and football (soccer). When he wasn't on the pitch scoring hat-tricks, he could be found near his Super Nintendo or around the house taking things apart -- there's a reason a grand amount of his toys carried a 'Destroyer' mark. One bragging right he occasionally brings up at random gatherings is the fact he was once ranked the number one FIFA 11 player in the world, but unfortunately, he no longer holds that title. He lives in New York City with his better half, and there's a plan to add a canine to the family in the near future.

Sean Arbabi

Columnist
San Francisco Bay Area

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Sean is an accomplished commercial photographer, photo expert, author of The Complete Guide to Nature Photography and The BetterPhoto Guide to Exposure.  Published worldwide since 1991, from American Express to CNBC, Backpacker to National Geographic, Nikon to The New York Times, REI to Sunset, he loves mountain biking, Tahoe vacations, and is an all around nice dude.

Andrew Munchbach

Contributing Editor
Boston MA, USA

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Boston based gadget lover and sports fan. Scotch lover. Cheez-It® connoisseur. Fragment abuser. Currently impersonating an editor at Engadget.

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Dana Murph

Photographer / Production Assistant
NC, USA

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John Browning

Contributing Editor
NC, USA

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John started out playing Wolfenstien 3D on his 386 at the ripe age of seven. These days you can find him hacking on GNU/Linux and FreeBSD or tweaking High Performance Grids during his day job at a North Carolina based, privately held software company. At night he doesn't leave his Android phone at home while he goes out on a quest to find the finest, locally brewed hops around. He tends to rep East Carolina University wherever he goes randomly screaming "GO PIRATES!" or "AAARRRGGGHHH".

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David Fishman

Editorial Assistant
New York, NY

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Anthony Verrecchio

Contributing Editor
Madrid, Spain

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Steve Dent

Contributing Editor
France

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Steve should have known that engineering was not for him when he spent most of his time at university monkeying with his 8086 clone PC. Although he graduated, a lifelong obsession of wanting the "solitaire" win animation to go faster had begun. Always seeking a gadget fix, he dabbles in photography, video, 3D-animation, and is a licensed private pilot. He followed l'amour de sa vie from Vancouver, BC to France, and now lives near Paris.

Jon Fingas

Editor
Ottawa, Canada

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Jon has led a double-sided life: he grew up with technology as a youngling but spent much of his time in academia learning to write.  Thankfully, people have been making jobs for people like him.  When he's not telling you why stock Android beats custom, he's firing up a game or engaging in some street photography.

Sarah Silbert

Reviews Editor
New York

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Long before the winding road of journalism led her to Engadget, Sarah spotted a deconstructed PC in elementary-school computer lab and thought it just looked so cool. Since then, she's had the goal to build one herself, and though that keeps getting put off, she's more than made up for it by tinkering with and writing about gadgets of all kinds. Sarah has some other skills, too -- such as speaking four languages and creating mixtapes for car rides of any and every length -- but these don't come in handy nearly as often.

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Landon Peck

Intern

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Alexis Santos

Contributing Editor
Kissimmee, FL

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Known for taking in outdated hardware when it outlives its usefulness, Alexis has a love for gadgets that may or may not border on obsession. With an affection for video games, sci-fi, fantasy and coding, he's an all-around geek. When not writing about gadgets on the wilds of the internet, he's likely programming, podcasting or pondering possibilities of alliteration.

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