Ryan Block is the editor-in-chief of Engadget, a web magazine focused on obsessive coverage of consumer electronics and technology. In addition to appearing to speak at Engadget events and (formerly) co-hosting a weekly podcast, he is also a contributor to and a founding editor of Joystiq, and a technology critic and commentator who has been quoted by the BBC, Business Week, The New York Times, The Guardian, The Times, and The Wall St. Journal (and was, for whatever reason, named one of Paper Magazine’s Beautiful People, 2006). Prior to Engadget, he worked in network engineering before returning to his education in writing and philosophy at the New School University in New York.