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What are the hottest consumer electronic products for this holiday season? We talk to the executive editor of CNET.com about iPods, tablet PCs, motion-sensitive video games and all the other tech goodies that will be at the top of many holiday wish lists.

Airs Friday, December 9, 2011 at 10:30 p.m. on KPBS TV

This week, we're exploring the tech frontier through the eyes of our children. So we're starting with the littlest ones -- babies. Can certain kinds of screen time help babies learn?

Once upon a time when a car company introduced a new car, it was a new new car.

Using an iPhone attachment, police can scan suspects' irises, faces or fingerprints and compare them against a database to verify their identity. Police around the nation will receive the scanner starting in September, but the technology has some privacy advocates worried.

Intercepted packages. Custom-made cables that steal data. Towers that mimic a commercial cellphone network. Those are a few of the tricks used by elite units of the National Security Agency to monitor potential threats, according to Germany's Der Spiegel. The magazine published those revelations Sunday and Monday, detailing what it calls a catalog of the NSA's high-tech spying products and methods.

Tour groups refer to the semi-autonomous region of Kurdistan as "the other Iraq." There, the economy is booming, people are using iPhones and violence is down. But some say the Kurdish success story is a myth.

A few weeks ago I wrote about how Google was using streaming music site Lala.com (along with MySpace) to buck the Apple hegemony of iTunes.

Some health experts say tablet usage needs to be limited for the youngest of children, because too much screen time can slow language development. But since there's very little research out there so far, experts still don't know exactly how much is too much.