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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.

If after reading CG you still find yourself craving for even more gadget news check out gadgets.alltop.com, an aggregation of all the top gadget blogs.

Along with gadgets Alltop has sections for other popular blogging niches (Gaming, Politics, Photography etc.). Though why you’d want to stray away from gadgets and tech I don’t know.

This post maybe somewhat on the biased side, as Alltop is a project by Guy Kawasaki and I’m currently sat in a room listening to him.

Over 70,000 readers enjoy reading Coolest Gadgets via our RSS feed, to compliment the feed you can now get your daily gadget quota delivered to your inbox once a day via email, to sign-up simply fill in the form.

So now find out about all the latest cool gadgets in a way that’s convenient to you:

• Email (once per day)
• Mobile Phone
• RSS Feed
• The Site

Thanks to Sarah for giving us the push to add the email option, something we should of done a while ago.

One of our aims for 2008 was to finally break into the top 1000 blogs according to Technorati (which is based on how many other blogs link to you), we’ve been petering on the edge for a while and finally broke in this afternoon at position #998.

I would like to thank every blog and blogger that has ever given us link credit to our stories, we will always strive to do the same. So in no particular order (though the sites in bold are the ones that I see a lot) I’d like to say a big cheers and thanks to:

• s2999
• Geek Chic
• Compradiccion
• Noantri
• Ektopia
• Slash Gear
• Gizmodo
• Digital Drops
• Geek Alerts
• Gadgettastic
• Grupo Geek
• Gadget Reporter
• Gear Log
• Geeky Gadgets
• Tip of the Day
• Zedomax
• Tech News 2 U
• Monster Works
• No Puedo Creer
• To all the others that I missed, thank you and I’ll try to include you next time

The next target for 2008 is to get our subscriber base up to 100,000 so if you haven’t subscribed to our feed yet here it is .