Gadget Competitions

It’s that time of the week to vote for your favourite coolest gadget. Vote and comment or tell a friend for a chance to win a $50 Amazon voucher (2 to give away). Good luck and have a super duper weekend.

Solar car battery charger

You can use your car less and not have to worry about coming back to a flat battery as this little gadget will ensure it’s always topped up. It’ll also work on motorbikes, boats and other small vehicles.

The full post can be found on Decide What to Buy.

3G iPhone Accessories - Incase Power Slider Case

Incase has revealed a new version of their Slider Case for the 3G iPhone, the Incase Power Slider Case.

This isn’t just your ordinary iPhone case, this new one features a built in battery pack that will double the battery life of your 3G iPhone.

The full post can be found on iPhone Sync.

Desktop Cotton Candy Maker

Cotton candy at home? I can feel the sugar coma coming on. You simply add sugar to the heating chamber and it produces cotton candy. Everything is removable for easy cleaning.

The full post can be found on Kitchen Contraptions.

HP TouchSmart tx2 notebook: Swiveling Magic!

The 12.1″ widescreen display swivels into a tablet, and lets you use two fingers to expand and pinch graphics, rotate and move objects around the desktop, drag things around and double tap to open

The full post can be found on Elite Choice.

Scotsman Beer Dispenser Pours Ten Pints in Ten Seconds

The Scotsman Trufill beer dispenser takes a different approach to filling pints, by filling from the bottom up. In doing so, it is able to serve beer at the alarmingly fast rate of ten pints in ten seconds. One would assume that a specialized cups or glasses are required in order to make use of the bottom-up filling method, but if it gets us beer faster, I am all for it.

The full post can be found on Uber Review.

Wenger Giant Swiss Army Knife

If this doesn’t take the cake, it will at least slice it in 67 different ways. The Wenger Giant Swiss Army Knife features a staggering 85 implements and is capable of performing over 100 tasks. It comes complete with double-cut wood saw, laser flashlight, universal wrench, golf divot repair tool and of course, what Swiss Army Knife is complete without a flashlight? It does weigh 1.5kg though, so you may not want to put it anywhere flimsy. Like a pocket.

The full post can be found on Gaj-It.

Faucet with Built In Electronic Thermostat

The Blok is an awesome new minimalist faucet mounted to a large shelf. Embedded within the shelf is a glowing digital display showing the water’s temperature. You can view the thermostat to instantly know if the water is too hot or too cold without having to do the tried and true water touching method.

The full post can be found on Craziest Gadgets.

Thanks again to all the sites for their submissions now over to you guys for voting (don’t forget to leave a comment with your reason for a chance to win a $50 Amazon voucher) and tell a friend about this contest to possibly win another $50:

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I’ve just got my hands on one of the new Dell Netbooks and first impressions are very good. It is designed to be a portable Internet anywhere device, weighing in at a measly 990g and measuring 232×175x30 (that’s about 1/3 of the size of my Mac Book Pro) and includes built-in broadband, there’s a SIM slot behind the battery so no need for a protruding 3G dongle.

If you’re in the UK there are couple of ways you can get you hands on a free Dell Netbook. The first is to sign up for Pay monthly mobile broadband plan, which includes a “free” netbook.

However Vodafone are currently doing a promotion where Live Guy is travelling the UK and each day he has a couple to Netbooks (with included 3G subscription) to give away to people that can find him, his agenda is:

• Edinburgh Monday 17 November
• Glasgow Tuesday 18 November
• Newcastle Wednesday 19 November
• Liverpool Thursday 20 November
• Leeds Friday 21 November
• Manchester Saturday 22 November
• Birmingham Monday 24 November
• Cardiff Tuesday 25 November
• Bristol Wednesday 26 November
• Reading Thursday 27 November
• London Friday 28 November

You can track him down via his site, Twitter, Facebook, You Tube, Picasa and if I hear anything I’ll be sure to share it via my Twitter account.

Each day Live Guy has 3 Netbooks to give away in person, but if you can’t make it to any of the specific locations you can track him online for a chance to win. Further info and clues over on the Live Guy site, good luck.

It was a three gadget race for last week’s coolest gadget crown and laziness won out with the winner being: Robot Legs.

They will reduce the load on your legs by supporting your weight as you walk. You just sit on the unicycle-type seat and the leg frames bend like knees. They run on two motors which are controlled by signals from the sensors inside the shoes. It all sounds great but I must say that when I first saw those pictures, I did wonder how the boys might fare…

I preferred my mates response on Twitter:

robots legs cause I’m lazy.. too lazy to comment as well see you sunday

Congrats to Decide What to Buy for again submitting a coolest gadget winner.

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It’s that time of the week to vote for your favourite coolest gadget. Vote and comment or tell a friend for a chance to win a $50 Amazon voucher (2 to give away).

Remote Controlled Ride On Sports Car

The remote-controlled ride-on sports car allows parents to control the driving, or if the parents are feeling a little wild and crazy, they relinquish control to the young driver at the touch of a button. Both modes enable a top speed of 3 mph along with normal movement forwards, backwards, left, and right. Operates for two hours after a 10-hour charge. Supports up to 45 lbs.

The full post can be found on Uber Review.

PC Drums for your Pocket

The new Korg Nano Digital Music Controllers aim to remedy this musical dilemma by providing three different portable USB versions of common musical input devices that fit perfectly with your laptop. The nanoKEY gives you a mini velocity sensitive keyboard. The nanoPAD provides you with velocity sensitive drum-pads and a Kaossilator style x-y control pad while the nanoKONTROL gives you nine faders, nine knobs and eighteen switches for your mixing pleasure.

The full post can be found on RGS.

iZ3D Custom Painted Monitors: Limited Edition Gaming Fantasy!

Priced at around $750 a piece, the custom painted LCD screens come in 9 different themes and you will love each every one of them

The full post can be found on Elite Choice.

Water Slide Simulator

Imagine going to a water park with no lines, slides that last more than a few seconds, and being able to create your own slide before you ride it. Well hopefully you will be able to in the future. If you saw this week’s episode of Prototype This that’s exactly what they ended up creating. Right now the prototype is massive but hopefully with some improvements they can scale it down to be able to fit in backyards across the world. Hopefully that can find a way to scale down the price tag as well. It works by spinning the large doughnut shaped slide with water in it, you get in it and with the help of a projector screen you can see the pov video on a water slide. The slide can rise it’s self up and down and tilt left to right to get a more immersive experience.

The full post can be found on GadgetBlvd.com.

Robot legs

After a night out or a long day shopping, are you ever so tired that you wish someone could carry you home? Now they can!

The full post can be found on Decide What to Buy.

Develop your own open source games with the Meggy Jr RGB

The Meggy Jr RGB is a hand held gaming platform that lets you develop your own open source pixel-scale video games.

The full post can be found on Geeky Gadgets.

Husqvarna’s Solar-Powered Robot will Mow Your Lawn Without You!

It is almost officially winter time, so most people living in the Northern Hemisphere are not mowing their lawns frequently if at all. Even so, this new Husqvarna’s Solar-Powered Robot is so cool I had to share it! Capable of mowing 3/4 acre, the 18 volt, 4 amp Auto Mower 230 runs 90 minutes on a single charge and cuts 1300 square feet per hour. The Auto Mower even returns to its own charging station when its power is running low! That’s one smart, eco-friendly lawn mower!
The full post can be found on Really Natural.

Dice Wall Clock

Dice are associated with gambling and lady luck. This cool clock is a DIY project. The package contains a blank clock face and 22 die shaped pieces. It’s up to you to attach the dice to the clock face using the included double-sided sticky pad. How will you determine where to place them? Will you roll the dice and let fate decide?
The full post can be found on Coated.

Thanks again to all the sites for their submissions now over to you guys for voting (don’t forget to leave a comment with your reason for a chance to win a $50 Amazon voucher) and tell a friend about this contest to possibly win another $50:

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If you write for a gadget themed blog and wish to be included in next weeks contest check out the CGOTW instructions page.

The top three in last week’s coolest gadget contest were as different as they come, we had the pointless, the pretty useful but the winner came in the form of fun, the 50′ Snowball Launcher (though it’s actually advertised as 80′ so that’s 30′ more fun).

This toy blaster makes and launches softball-sized snowballs up to 80′, allowing rapid, long-range assaults during neighborhood snowball confrontations. Simply place snow in the forming chamber and close the lid, and it packs three perfectly spherical snowballs. To blast your mark, place one snowball in the muzzle, aim the launcher, and pull back the slingshot mechanism. Because the blaster is powered by elastomers instead of batteries, it provides uninterrupted, fast-action play.

Congrats to S2999 for finding this gadget beauty.
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Thanks everybody who entered our recent competition and shared with us what they thought would be this Christmas’s coolest gift (there were some great ideas). We will be producing our annual gift guides and will certainly include many of the suggestions. This year we’ll also try to wrangle you various discount vouchers, so watch this space ( /*insert usual subscribe promotion here */ via our feed or free daily email is the most reliable way).

So onto the prize giving, the 5 lucky randomly drawn winners of a CiBox Digital picture frame are:

• Craig Maddison
• Jeff (jeffpulic@)
• Jason (@speed…)
• David (ripzip@)
• wow (lmiller…)

Could all winners please contact us with your full international address and a contact number and we’ll pass this on to Red Save who are providing the prizes (thanks again guys).

Congrats to the winners and better luck next time to everybody else, we have plenty more contests planned and you’ve still got time to vote in this weeks coolest gadget contest for a chance to win an Amazon voucher.

You still have a few days left to comment to have a chance to win one of five digital picture frames, and along with that we have another $100 to give away in this week’s coolest gadget contest. Simply vote, comment and spread the word for a chance to win (full instructions at the bottom of this post).

Good luck and have an amazingly awesome weekend. Now onto the entries…

50′ Snowball Launcher

The 50′ Snowball Launcher won’t help you relive the good ol’ days of making snowballs until your hands froze, but this piece of modern winter warfare is kick-ass. Not only it can throw snowballs up to 50 feet, but it can also shape them for you. Let the hostilities begin!

The full post can be found on S2999.

Remote Control VS Tank

The remote control VS Tank has incredible maneuverability so you will always be in control, even if you live on a mountain. There are nine speeds at your disposal which is eight more than I’ve ever had before. The turret can be rotated 330°, necessary to battle it out with other VS Tanks using Airsoft BB pellets which are accurate up to a long-distance 25 metres. If details are important to you, this tank has been precisely constructed to be on scale at exactly 1/24 of the size of it’s real life big brother.

The full post can be found on Gaj-It.

USB Negative Scanner

Turn all your old 35mm photos into 5 megapixel digital ones in seconds with this USB negative scanner. It will take old negatives or slides, so all of those embarrassing pictures of your mates can work their way onto Facebook after all.

The full post can be found on Decide what to buy.

Mr. Personality Robot has MPD

This robot seems to have multiple personality disorder. His head has a color LCD that will display different modes, such as comedian and fortune teller Others are available by download. Wowee’s Mr. Personality can converse with you, has 64MB of memory and an SD card to download a few more. He also has an omni-directional base with seven motors which allows him to move in and around obstacles, 4 IR sensors, and comes with a remote. Mr. P needs 6 C batteries (not included) to be his charming self and is available at a $240.13 price.

The full post can be found on Robot Snob.

Star Wars Ultimate Lightsaber

OK, you’ve been able to buy lightsaber toys for a few years now, however what makes this one different is you get to build your own custom lightsaber, just like a jedi does! This lightsaber set comes with lots of different parts which means there’s over a 1000 different lightsaber combinations to come up with. Including making the lighsabers of the various different Jedi and Sith themselves!

The full post can be found on Zath.

GPS Underwear

This underwear set certainly boosts the confidence of the person wearing it, in addition to the fact that it has GPS support so that your position (as long as you’re wearing it) can be established at all times just in case you get abducted or worse. I think most (suspicious) husbands will probably get this for their wives with less than altruistic reasons behind the gift.

The full post can be found on Foolish Gadgets.

Not so Sexy Air Pump Bra

Air-pump bra pad safely and effectively improve your bust line. The nylon and polyurethane pad inflates with every squeeze of the air-pump area for custom adjustable sizing, while pushing a metal disc releases the air. Upgrade your cup and get a firmer look in seconds, without drugs or surgical procedures.

The full post can be found on RGS.

Personalized Whac-A-Mole Game

Priced at $35000, the shelf comes with a remote that closes and opens the gaming portal into a plain bookshelf

The full post can be found on Elite Choice.

Apollo 11 Spacesuit Gets a Toughened Multi-Purpose Replica

Made out of the heavy weight Nylon Cordura, the Apollo 11 spacesuit replica is designed to resist wear and tear.

The full post can be found on Trends Update.

Thanks again to all the sites for their submissions now over to you guys for voting (don’t forget to leave a comment with your reason for a chance to win a $50 Amazon voucher) and tell a friend about this contest to possibly win another $50:

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If you write for a gadget themed blog and wish to be included in next weeks contest check out the CGOTW instructions page.

You still have a chance to win a digital picture frame from us, but last week’s coolest gadget contest is now at a close, so before announcing the pair of $50 Amazon voucher winners what were last week’s coolest gadgets?

In first place with 37% of the votes we have the exceedingly cool Solar Cell Tree, congrats and thanks for the submission Decide What to Buy.

Each of the leaves is actually a solar panel. These 54 solar panels or photovoltaic panels, to be exact, will store energy that can then be used to charge you favourite gadgets.

Pretty different, hey? Each piece is also movable so you can make it even more original by creating your own shapes.

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