With 2010 around the corner, Apple has compiled its favorite iPhone apps of 2009 as well as the year’s best sellers. Now Wired wants to know what your favorites are.

In its iTunes Store, Apple is featuring a page titled “Rewind 2009: Apps” displaying this year’s iPhone showstoppers. The lists are divided into apps and games.

Apple’s favorite games include Canabalt (a side scroller),  Sally’s Spa (a productivity roleplaying game) and Spider: The Secret of Bryce Manor (a spider simulator). Apps that made the cut include I Am T-Pain (a voice transformer), Leaf Trombone: World Stage (a musical instrument) and ConvertBot (a unit converter).

As for the year’s top sellers, some of the most popular games were Flight Control (an air-traffic control simulator), Cooking Mama (a cooking action game) and Wheel of Fortune (uh, you know). Best-selling apps include SlingPlayer Mobile (a TV viewer), Pocket God (a free-form revenge fantasy)  and the Moron Test (to double check if you’re a moron).

Clap, clap, clap. Some mighty fine apps made it to the iTunes page, but we’re more interested in what Wired readers chose as their favorite iPhone apps of 2009.

Submit and vote on your choices in the Reddit-powered widget below; we’ll follow up with a post compiling your top 10 to honor your picks. We’ve submitted three of our favorites just to get the conversation started: BeeJive (an IM app), Words With Friends (an online Scrabble game) and Tweetie 2 (a Twitter app).

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See Also:

• 10 Most Awesome iPhone Apps of 2008
• Wired.com Readers’ Best iPhone Dongleware Inventions
• Top 10 iPhone Games, as Voted by Wired.com Readers
• Five iPhone Apps That Replace Bike Hardware

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Welcome to the Engadget Holiday Gift Guide! The team here is well aware of the heartbreaking difficulties of the seasonal shopping experience, and we want to help you sort through the trash and come up with the treasures this year. Below is today’s bevy of hand curated picks, and you can head back to the Gift Guide hub to see the rest of the product guides as they’re added throughout the holiday season.

Buying a laptop as a holiday present for someone is fraught with danger: you’re more than likely buying someone’s primary machine, and they’re going to think of you every single time they boot it up, whether it’s to do work, play games, or gently stalk old flames on the “Face Book.” Worry not, though — we’re here to help, with a grab-bag of laptop choices that offers something for everyone.

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Nokia announced that its E72 business smartphone and 5800 Navigation Edition touch screen smartphone are now available online and in select retail outlets.

The QWERTY-equipped E72 includes built-in corporate e-mail support for Exchange and IBM Lotus Notes Traveler, plus 10 personal e-mail accounts. It also features a 5-megapixel camera with flash and auto-focus, several media players, Ovi Maps with GPS, 10 Mbps HSDPA, a standard-size 3.5mm headphone jack, and an optical navigation pad.

The 5800 Navigation Edition (pictured) also includes Ovi Maps for mobile for real-time, turn-by-turn navigation for pedestrians and cars. It stores maps locally on the device for more accurate routing in areas with poor cellular signal. It also features a 3.2-megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss optics, a 3.2-inch touch screen, HSDPA support, and stereo speakers.

The unlocked E72 costs $469, while the 5800 Navigation Edition retails at $299. Both are available direct through www.nokiausa.com, as well as at Best Buy and some other retail channels.

Virgin Galactic has taken the wraps off the first of five long-awaited SpaceShipTwo spacecrafts.

California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson were on hand to christen the spacecraft with the customary bashing of champagne bottles, National Geographic reports. Meanwhile, Sir Richard Branson’s daughter Holly announced the first ship’s name: V.S.S. Enterprise.

The 60-foot-long ship is based on the original SpaceShipOne, a reusable manned spacecraft that won the $10-million Ansari X Prize back in 2004. EVE, a twin-fuselage mother ship, carries the V.S.S. Enterprise to launch altitude at about 50,000 feet before it separates, the report said.

The ship is designed to carry two pilots and six passengers, who “will pay handsomely for two and a half hour flights into suborbital space,” to experience weightlessness and see the Earth’s curvature.

British company Touch Bionics has created the world’s first powered bionic fingers that can be used by patients with missing fingers.

ProDigits, as the device is called, can help its users bend, touch, pick up and point — reflecting almost all the key functions of a natural hand. The prosthetic fingers are for those who have a partial hand, where the absence of fingers is due either to congenital anomalies or to amputation, says Touch Bionics.

Maria Iglesias, a former concert pianist from Spain, is among the first patients to get the custom-made mechanical fingers. The bionic fingers cost between $57,000 and $73,000. Touch Bionics already has a prosthetic arm called i-LIMB that has become a part of more than 3,000 patients.

Advanced prosthetic arms are an active area of research, as scientists and doctors try to find ways to replicate the functionality of the human arm. The human hand is difficult to create artificially, because it is not just about movement. The hand also offers feedback about the texture and nature of the object. Conventional prosthetic arms have been little more than hooks with fingers that are fused together.

Touch Bionic’s ProDigits fingers help solve one part of the problem. For some patients, not having fingers or opposable thumbs makes small tasks such as holding a fork or a cup difficult and frustrating. ProDigits’ artificial fingers can wiggle independently or come together to form a fist.

Each of the bionic fingers is custom-built. The sockets are designed and fabricated to suit each patient’s specific needs, says the company.

ProDigits are activated either by myoelectric sensors that register muscle signals from the residual finger or palm, or by a pressure-sensitive switch input in the form of a touchpad. The fingers also have a feature that detects when they have closed around an object.

As the video shows, the degree of flexibility that the ProDigits offers is amazing.

For more on prosthetic arms, see our photo gallery featuring prototypes such as a thought-controlled prosthetic arm and an arm powered by a miniature rocket motor.

Photo: Touch Bionics