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This year's recommendations:

• Customers Included: How to Transform Products, Companies, and the World - With a Single Step
• Cool Tools: A Catalog of Possibilities
• Cool Tools website
• The Self-Publishing Route (blog post)
• Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell: A Novel
• The Circle, by Dave Eggers
• Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption, by Laura Hillenbrand
• XBox 360
• PlayStation 3
• Snap Circuits
• Thinkfun Rush Hour
• DragonBox (iOS app)
• Buck (documentary)
• NOAHH High-Def Radar (iOS app)
• Learn Chinese with Uncle Mark: Episode 1, Episode 2, Episode 3, and Episode 4.
• Sharpie Metallic Permanent Markers
• Anthrocart (standing desk)
• GelPro Plush Pad
• Keyboard Maestro (Mac software)
• The Google Glass feature no one is talking about
• Duck Duck Go (and the Gel conference video of DDG's founder, Gabriel Weinberg, speaking at Gel 2013)
• New Gel conference website (looks great on smartphones, too)
• Monoprice.com (cables)
• New York Public Library
• Good Todo
• Bit Literacy (free Kindle download)
• London Fog umbrella
• Funny video with New York tourist tips