Half the fun for tech-heads like myself is observing and tracking technologies looming on the horizon. Sometimes these future solutions are just a CES trade show from appearing on store shelves or on Amazon, while independent designers these days often turn to crowd-funding to help bring their ideas to fruition and into your hands...

• Hands On Preview: Unlace Ties Up Cord and Cable Clutter
• Ditch The Deck, Use Your iPhone: Dash -- The Smartphone Car Stereo
• Elegant Tech Toys for Creative Kids
• It's a LED and an Edison Bulb?
• Fashionably Functional: Wearable Computing Devices
• OneLessDrop Power Cord Anchor
• The Acoustic Boosting iPhone Dock...Planter?
• Sensu: Real Brush Painting for the iPad
• A Dividing Design: Kanavos by Alexandros Stasinopoulos
• What If Naoto Fukasawa Designed a Digital Camera?

Welcome to Apartment Therapy's Best of 2012 roundup! From December 19 through January 1 we are rounding up our favorite (and your favorite) posts from the past year.

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