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If you frequent our homepage, you probably won’t be surprised to hear that all of us at Viddler are huge fans of Engadget. We feature videos from Engadget on a regular basis, and why wouldn’t we? They do comprehensive and witty coverage of a topic that’s very dear to our hearts: technology. Personally, I’ve been reading Engadget since I was in diapers (which, for me, would be about the 10th grade). In high school when I wasn’t playing Tetris on my TI-83, or watching—mesmerized—as the dock of my Rio Karma pulsed to the beat of my mp3′s, or getting suspended for a proxy I set up to circumvent my school’s web filter (true story), I could be found scrolling through my RSS reader, geeking out at the latest posts from Engadget. Since then I’ve shelved my calculator, moved on to more convergent devices for playing my music, and found a job at a place that would never block me from watching a web video. But one habit still remains. Engadget’s coverage of the gadget world has kept me coming back for more ever since I went through puberty and first noticed how sexy a USB port can look.

Last week I had the honor of hanging out backstage at Engadget’s live talk show, The Engadget Show. As a video producer, it was a real thrill to see Chad Mumm and his crew come into Cooper Union’s venue, set up a top notch production in a matter of hours, and put on a great live show in front of a full auditorium. Oh, and getting their guest, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, to sign my iPad was pretty cool, too. I documented the whole production and sat down with Engadget editors Joshua Topolsky, Nilay Patel, and Paul Miller to talk about The Engadget Show and other ways Engadget is using video to inform and entertain. The result is a new video in our series called Viddler Spotlight, embedded below. Watch it and get inspired. The world of online video is getting more exciting every day.