top trends 2012

Gone are the days when people would be satisfied with their simple touch screen phone or MP3 players. As the year comes to an end, we look at some groundbreaking gadgets that stood the test of consumers and had them drool and begging for more.

The new age activism tool – social media, as expected, was the home of several controversies this year. From Shashi Throor vs Narendra Modi over 50 crore girlfriend' to the arrest of two girls for protesting Mumbai shutdown Bal Thackeray’s death. Here’s a look at top ten controversies that kept social media and world outside it, buzzing in 2012.

How would you describe viral videos - a time waster, a guilty pleasure that kept you up late at night? It felt like we encountered a brand new, ‘need-to-watch’ YouTube video about three times per day in 2012. Only a select few of the videos -- "Gangnam Style," "Felix Baumgartner's fall from space", and "Kony 2012," -- survived the test of time.