Join Merry Christmas from Coolest Gadgets
We would like to wish all of our readers a very merry Christmas and hope you get all the gadgets on your Santa list.
All the very best
The CG Team
In search of a laptop – My Black Friday adventure
Black Friday has finally passed. Some people braved the crowds in search of the best deals, while others stayed in the safety of their own homes. I was one of the crazy people who made their way to the stores in search of an awesome deal. I might be crazy for doing it, but now I’ve finally replaced my recently deceased laptop. Here’s the tale of just what it took to get my hands on it.
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The iBoom Winner Is…
Our recent contest for the Stuff and What Hi Fi tickets and an iBoom is now closed.
Firstly thanks to everybody who entered and shared with us their Coolest Gadget of 2007, I’d also like to thank Stuff for providing the tickets and the guys at urboom for the cool prize. If you requested tickets for the show please get in touch and we’ll arrange those.
Any way onto the prize, I’d like to congratulate Russell for some how hacking random.org to throw his number out, so congrats Russell and better luck next time everybody else.
If you can attend the Best of Stuff Show I’d highly recommend it, I’ve been the last couple of years and it’s a lot of techie fun.
Competition Extension – Win a $260 iBoom
We’ve not had as many applicants as normal to our recent contest, so if you fancy winning an iBoom or getting your hands on some of our free tickets to the Stuff show now would be a good time to enter.
The contest/draw/raffle is open for another 24 hours.
Competition Time – Win a £129.99 iBoom and Tickets to the Best of Stuff Show
It’s that time of year again when the Stuff Show comes into town. For the last couple of years we’ve been able to get our hands on some free tickets to give away, this year we’ve gone one better. Not only do we have 10 sets of free tickets to hand out but the guys over at urboom have generously donated us a BooM1 (worth £129.99) to give away.
Besides the stylish looking, you can easily connect your iPod, MP3 players and CD players with it. Boom is easy to carry with great mobility, you will find no problem whenever you want to enjoy in the world of rhyme and music, or share them with your family and friends.
To have a chance of winning simply leave a comment here saying what you think is the coolest gadget of 2007, the competition is open all but please let us know in your comment whether you can attend the Stuff Show in London (2nd – 4th November). We’ll close the contest and announce the winner on tomorrow. Good luck.
Coolest Gadgets is Hiring
If you love gadgets and have a knack at finding new and obscure products before all your friends then how would you feel about writing for Coolest Gadgets?
We are looking for tech enthusiasts with a humorous (yet somewhat intelligent (debatable)) writing style to post daily on this site. In exchange you’ll get the satisfaction of having your work read be our 80K+ daily reader and you don’t need to pay us, we’ll pay you.
If you’d like to apply please send us a sample of your work and a few sentences explaining why you’d like to join the CG team. Looking forward to hearing from you.
PC Magazine Ranks CG in their Top 100
I’ve just received an email from PC Magazine congratulating us on making their list of favourite 100 blogs. This might sound a bit old fashioned but I do find it exciting seeing Coolest Gadgets in the more traditional media, so thanks a lot PC Mag.
Other techie mentions go to:
- Crave
- Core 77
- Born Rich
- Engadget
- Gizmodo
- Oh Gizmo
- Pink Tentacle
- Sci Fi Tech
- Shiny Shiny
- Tech Crunch
- Uber Gizmo
- Uncrate
And I’m really proud that CG was included in a list with those guys (and gals).
Cheers again PC Mag and especially Jennifer Deleo for doing whatever she did to get us on the list.
Competition Time – Win an Electric Scooter
We wrote about the Jamie Oliver survival kit earlier in the month, it’s pretty cool but at the end of the day it’s a set of pans. However the marketing company are running a cool competition to get the word out called Hack the Kit
For a chance of winning a cool electric scooter all you need to do is submit a hack:
What’s a “hack” you say? Well, it’s a way of solving an everyday problem (like, what to do when you get hungry behind the wheel?) with an ingenious solution (fry an egg on your car’s motor!).
We want you to think of new ways to use the Jamie Oliver Survival Kit and come up with crazy, fun or useful hacks.
All ideas will be considered. No hack too bizarre. Just make sure it uses the Jamie Oliver Survival Kit, submit your hack idea here and you’ll go into the draw. Make sure you get your submission in by 12th October 2007.
Whoever submits the best hack will win the scooter (valued at ~$350) and if the hack is from one of our readers (which after reading some of the witty comments you lot leave we have a very good chance) we’ll also win an electric scooter, which we will then give away to another CG reader so there are a potential two scooters up for grabs (oh and 20 sets of Jamie Oliver pans).
To enter, you need to get your creative juices flowing and post your idea over on hack the kit and make sure you set the source to Coolest Gadgets.
Have fun.
