Best of 2011: Tech Tech it to the limit with the year's best

Bank Simple: Bank Simple aims to free you from big-bank shackles via a totally free, ultra-slick, all-digital "banking alternative"...more

Lamar Exciting Audio Project: LEAP creates angular, futuristic, handmade speakers and boomboxes that range in application from pro studio mixing, to amateur stereo blasting, to beach listening...more

Bheestie: Bheestie's a bright silver sleeve with the not-magic-but-still-awesome property of being able to draw moisture from cellphones, iPods, digital cameras, and other electronics affected by sodden living...more

RC Superhero: Superhero does maybe the greatest thing ever: creates dude-shaped RC planes that look and fly like swooping superhumans...more

Geoloqi: From two Portland pals -- one of whom tracked his location every five seconds for the last two years -- Geoloqi's a new iPhone app that maps your location/ rate of travel/ path, and lets you selectively share the info...more