Images: The worst technologies in Q3 2006

Gone are the days when CNET News.com reporters Dawn Kawamoto and Tom Krazit would chat with each other on the phone for hours, coordinating their wardrobes for the next day, discussing their favorite "American Idol" contestant and talking about whom each of them will ask to the CNET sock hop. Instead, they've both been under their desks for the past month with tin foil hats on, rocking back and forth in the fetal position and mumbling something about HP spies tapping their brain waves. Thanks a ton, HP. Their outfits haven't been coordinated for weeks now.