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I think it’s about time that Coolest Gadget got a bit (or a lot) of a face-lift. The site has had this look for just over 4 years and it’s looking pretty dated, so it’s time for a change.

I’d like to ask for suggestions on how you think the new revision should look, what extra features you’d like to see and if there is anything else we can do to improve your experience here. We’ve already hired a great designer who will welcome your input.

Thanks to everybody who shares their opinions here (we’ll also hand out some random prize to the best suggestions).

Over on CG-UK we’ve scored an interview with a couple of senior people in Sony’s TV division with a slight twist – you get to ask the questions!

The interview is with Sony Europe so obviously any questions about product range or marketing will be limited to that region, but the technology is universal so if you’ve got a question about Sony TV/Blu-ray products or technology now’s your chance to ask.

We will be submitting the questions to Sony next Monday so you’ve got the rest of this week to think about it. To see who’s taking part in the interview and find out how to submit your questions, head over to the post on CG-UK.

Hi, we were a bit slow on the uptake to do this but you can now follow Coolest Gadgets via twitter and facebook. So you now have the following ways to keep up with coolest gadget news:

• Become a fan on facebook
• Follow us on Twitter
• Our RSS feed
• The daily email
• and of course, the Web Site

I think that’s just about covered all bases (for now).

With yesterday being Thanksgiving (hope you had a good one with only minor drunken arguments) and today something of a holiday there will be no Coolest Gadget of the week this week. It will be back again next Friday and include the 5 or so entries that we received today.

Starting next week we’ll be publishing our annual gadget gift guides, if there is a guide you’d like to see drop us a comment here and we’ll do our best to accommodate. In fact we’ll give a $50 Amazon voucher for the best suggestion (a few ideas from last year’s gift guides).

We also have a few other competitions lined up over the festive period so watch this space.

Have a fun and fantastic weekend folks.

In our daily quest to find the latest cool gadgets we often come across what can at best be described as “not exactly cool” or more realistically just darn foolish. They maybe foolish but they can be exceedingly amusing hence our new sister site Foolish Gadgets is born.

If you want to amused by the foolish side of the gadget world please check out Foolish Gadgets, or subscribe free via the feed or the Foolish Gadgets daily email digest.

As always suggestions and ideas would be greatly appreciated, even foolish ones.

Thanks to everybody who completed our recent server, you’ve provided us with some much needed stats which is greatly appreciated. We’ve drawn a name (well number) out of random.org and the winner of the $100 Amazon voucher is

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An email address that begins with vromanovich@, so congratulations vromanovich, we’ll be in touch to sort out the details.

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Thanks again to everybody whi contributed, if you missed the survey the first time round and can spare us 5 minutes you can find the survey here (no prizes this time though).

Sony is giving one of our readers the chance to win the fantastic new NWZ-A829 Walkman Video MP3 player. Packed with features and weighing a mere 58 grams this new arrival will store up to 16GB of music, video and snaps. It even has built in Bluetooth® stereo, so you can listen to your music without the hassle of getting tangled up in those pesky headphone wires.

To be in with a chance just follow this link to the Sony Style site to find the answer to these simple questions:

Question 1: What is the ‘special blue’ key feature of the NWZ-A829 Walkman?

Question 2: What is the LCD screen size of the NWZ-A829Walkman?

Question 3: How light is the NWZ-A829 Walkman?

Once you have the answers, simply send them to us via our contact form or email “contests@coolest-gadgets.com” and if you’re feeling nice you could always tell a friend about the contest. Contest closed.

Full terms and conditions and obligatory small print are: Read the rest of this entry »

It’s taken a lot of blood, sweat and tears (okay maybe not blood) but we finally have a new look and layout for Coolest Gadgets. This has been in procrastinated development for the best part of a year so I’m delighted it’s finally live.

If you are reading this via our feed please come on over and check it out, all opinions are very welcome.

The main changes we’ve made are:

• We’ve removed some of the adverts that we thought were too in your face
• At the bottom of all posts there is now an option to “Mail to a friend”
• The layout of individual posts has been radically neatened
• Navigation moved from the left to the right

If you have any suggestions on either the look or just in general please let us know.

Thanks for reading.