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Robot-Man Behind Google Phone

Engineer Andy Rubin: Gadget fanatic, longtime smartphone innovator

By Jane Yager, Newser Staff

Posted Nov 4, 2007 11:33 AM CST

(Newser) – The man behind the Google Phone is gadget guru Andy Rubin, a robotics fanatic whose love of cutting-edge toys puts him at odds with the Google anti-conspicuous-consumption ethos. A Times profile finds Rubin at home in a palace of technology, with a retinal scanner at... Read full story »

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