Wear your shoes and vacuum with them too.

This week turned out to be a shoe-centric one here at Crave. We kicked things off with vacuum footwear for "shoe-vering" and moved on to a prototype navigational shoe radar system that steps in when satellite signals conk out.

Following in the footsteps of Facebook- and Twitter-themed sneakers, Crave UK wondered what a Google clog, Wikipedia wellie, or MySpace moccasin would look like. But not to worry' plenty of non-shoe-related news went down while we were busy indulging our foot fetish.

&149' Here's what happens when an iPad meets an ice storm.

&149' Scott and Jeff took a spin in Gran Turismo 5.

&149' Angry Birds Christmas: The finch-flinging frolic is going festive.

&149' Digital SLR or toy robot It's hard to tell.

&149' Playboy hard drive bundles decades of stimulating "reading."

&149' TDK is back from the '80s, and making Donald swoon.

The Korejanai treatment.

&149' Contribute to science while moving puzzle pieces.

&149' Massage robot's got your (sore) back.

&149' Climbing bike lock has lefty ambitions.

&149' Is that the Fourth Amendment on your underwear or are you just unhappy to see full-body scans

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