In Pictures: Best Tech Products PCW Missed

In our online poll, lots of people wrote in the programming language known as Smalltalk as their #1 product of all time. Lots and lots and lots and lots of people, actually--so many, in fact, that it's a tad suspicious. But Smalltalk, which sprang from Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center and has been around for decades in various versions, has been extremely influential: It was an object-oriented language back when that was an arcane idea. A modern flavor of Smalltalk, Squeak, is one of technologies that powers the $100 XO (One Laptop Per Child) notebook for emerging countries.