The FPS Gaming Vest had a commanding lead but out of nowhere the Computerized Chopper starting getting a load of votes. After checking logs, IP addresses and what not, we’ve got to discount at least 200 votes for the chopper, so the official Coolest Gadgets coolest gadget of CES 2008 is the FPS Gaming Vest, which just shows that we’re a bunch of masochists that like being punched when playing games.

Surprisingly we only had 10 comments on the post, one of which will win the $50 Amazon voucher and according to random.org the winner is…..

…Ian, so congratulations and I’ll be in touch about where to send the voucher to. Thanks again to everybody who voted and commented and whoever tried to rig the vote err why!

We do have more contests and give-aways planned this year and some other exciting news, so if you haven’t subscribed to our feed () yet there’s no time like the present.

Related Posts:

• 5-in-1 Gadget Pen
• Thumnail Gallery
• $25 TG Winner - Guess the number of screen resolutions
• $100 Amazon Winner is...
• Winner of the 42" LG LCD TV is...

The popularity of the iPod naturally gave birth to the popularity of the iPod docking station. One of best that I saw at CES this year was the SoundWorks i765. The i765 is made by Cambridge, which is a company related to Creative, makers of the popular Zen PMP.

As an iPod dock and speaker, it definitely does its job with a built-in powered subwoofer that is “capable of filing any size room with rich, natural sound”. And even though I’m quoting from the press kit, I had an opportunity to verify this claim for myself. It’s true.

However, quality sound is only one of the i765’s amazing features. The user has the option to connect the i765 to a television using S-video. I was able to try it out, and it played a movie that I had on my iPod like it was a DVD.

By the way, the i765 can play DVDs, as well as CDs. It also has an AM/FM tuner with 16 FM and 8 AM presets. All of these audio and video functions can be controlled with the included wireless remote that can control the iPod as well.

You can purchase the SoundWorks Radio i765 for about $499.99 at the Cambridge SoundWorks site or at select Apple Retail Stores.

Related Posts:

• High Definition Radio from Cambridge SoundWorks
• More Mini Gizmo Images
• Suma is a new type of 3D PC Gaming Control
• Close Proximity Glucometer and Insulin Pump
• Cambridge Audio goes 3D with 751BR 3D Blu-ray Universal player

When I was at CES 2008 last week, there was a lot of hype over the Hitachi 1.5. In fact, Hitachi had these mobile billboards driven around all around the town proclaiming “1.5 is here”. I’ve always found ad campaigns like these a little awkward. They tend to assume that you know what the product is, which sort of defeats the purpose of advertising.

For those who do not know, 1.5 is a new display from Hitachi that is as thick as its name: 1.5 inches. Of course, the mere thickness (or in this case, thinness) is pretty impressive, but Hitachi packed even more features.

First, the 1.5 has a search engine that is designed for large-scale image and video archives. This program, also known as Similarity Based Image Retrieval System, can essentially use a picture to search for a bigger or similar picture.

Second, the 1.5 has a Personal Video Sharing feature with a built-in home data center. This allows for content recorded on a video camera to be shared between two homes. No PC is required for this.

The third cool feature is a Wireless HDTV System. This allows high-definition content to be distributed over WiFi from a Hitachi video gateway device. In other words, a user can share content among several displays at home.

The fourth feature is the IPTV user interface for “accessing, managing, and sharing content at home or on the go”.

The 1.5 is planned to be released shortly, and something tells me it will make quite a splash.

Source

Related Posts:

• Hitachi Presents a Pocket Sized 3D Screen
• Hitachi hybrid LCD on display
• Hitachi Starboard FX-77GII Interactive Whiteboard
• Hitachi’s Biometric Vending Machine
• Hitachi releases three more 3TB drives

So our short list of coolest CES gadgets is:

Computerized Chopper

The concept was to produce a product capable of operating under some pretty tough conditions and to show the potential of the current embedded technology. The result was the SwitchBack PC, a product which was already in development stages by Black Diamond. Read more »

FPS Gaming vest – Feel the Bullets

The FPS Gaming vest is a new gaming peripheral aimed at the first person shooter market. Looking like a flack jacket, the vest will actually “punch” you when you get hit. Not only that, but it punches where you get hit too. It doesn’t bruise, but you definitely know you’ve been fragged and where the shot came from. Read more »

Guitar Hero Air Guitar Rocker

Air Guitar Rocker is officially licensed with Guitar Hero but you don’t need to own Guitar Hero to play. Simply wear the supplied ‘heavy metal’ belt buckle, attach it to the included processor thingie and you’re good to go. Play your air guitar by strumming the plectrum in front of your groin the belt buckle. Read more (and watch the video) »

Please let us know what you think, other suggestions are more than welcome.

If you are reading this via our feed you’ll have to visit the site to vote. Thanks and good luck in the draw.

Related Posts:

• Coolest Gagdet of CES Was and the $50 Winner Is...
• CGOTW #2 - The Winners Are...
• Another Gallery of Posts
• Last Weeks Coolest Gadget (and $50 winner)
• Tear through plastic shells with Open It

The picture to the left is simply a scan of a postcard that I received in the mail, and there are several things that make this picture special.

The first thing is that it depicts a handsome blogger who visited CES 2008 in Las Vegas, and is holding up a genuine Las Vegas napkin as “proof that I was here”.

The second thing is that the postcard is made from a picture from a cell phone. However, there was no work downloading the picture to a PC, or taking the time to print it out with a caption. All that it took was sending the picture from a cell phone to WYWH.mobi, and then the postcard was printed elsewhere and sent to its destination.

I believe that this WYWH (acronym for Wish You Were Here) service is very useful. After all, most people will send postcards when they are on vacation. I suppose that they could print out the postcards themselves, but who is going to bring their photo-printer along on vacation? I suppose you could print out your postcards when you come home, but doesn’t that defeat the point?

Fortunately, all you have to do is take a picture, send it to the WYWM.mobi, and they send your postcards off to your friends and relatives before you get home. Each postcard is about $1.99, which includes a caption on the front and room for a typewritten message. Unfortunately, this service won’t be available for a few months, but I think it’s worth the wait.

More Info

Related Posts:

• Wooden Postcards
• Another Gallery of Posts
• Coolest Gadgets on your Mobile
• Postcards that can be eaten
• Phone Booth for Cell Phones

After CES, I saw a lot of coverage on iRiver’s new line of products, but I was surprised that there was little on the new SPINN MP4 Player. Perhaps this was due to the SPINN being under a glass cage at the booth. Unfortunately, I do not know if they ever took the player out of its display case at any time during the Expo.

Therefore, I wasn’t able to see the biggest selling point on what iRiver calls its flagship model. I would have liked to see the easy-to-use SPINN System Toggle Wheel, which I was told uses 3-D technology for a truly unique interface.

The thing that iRiver wants to promote with this new type of toggle wheel is that it has the “warmth of analog technology”. Personally, I never saw a dial as having any warmth whatsoever, but I think I see what they are trying to do. Too many Portable Media Players have too many buttons and confusing scroller wheels, so perhaps it was time to go back to the old-fashioned dial method for ease of usage.

The features on the SPINN are many including a photo viewer, FM tuner, recording capability, Flash games (including Flash 2.0), a text viewer, and even a dictionary. The screen is a 3.2 inch WQVGA TFT-LCD with 480×272 resolution. All this, and it is Bluetooth compatible.

The iRiver SPINN should be available sometime in the Spring, but a price has not been set as yet.

Related Posts:

• iRiver releases DP350 media player
• Myracer lisse T10
• iRiver Life Unit oozes with style
• Mickey's ears control tunes
• iRiver Dicple D5: Pocket Electronic Dictionary and PMP