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We had 10 entries in all to win our $600 gadget goody bag, bit of a low turn out but at least it means each has a 10% chance of winning. So the entrants are:

1. 1 - Jeff with his promotional photo
2. 2 - Arthur with his review of the TI-84 Review
3. 3 - Erik a and his bargain LCD monitor review.
4. 4 - Andrew with his cheeky reused post on the self stirring mug
5. 5 - Mark who showed us how to make a digital picture frame
6. 6 - Andi for sharing his experiences with Silverline headphones
7. 7 - Jani for showing us his DIY skills with the LCD mouse
8. 8 - Oscar for showing us how to keep fit with the Nike sports kit
9. 9 - Kyle and his remote control watch review
10. 10 - Jabbran with his comprhensive Bluetrek G2 review

Thanks everybody for taking part, we had some really good reviews and pictures. Now the winner is…. Read the rest of this entry »

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It’s been a funny old time, I’ve turned down two interesting offers for Coolest Gadgets in the space of a week, I won’t say I’ll never sell but it’s worth a lot more to me than was on the table.

Much more importantly (for me anyway) I’ve just launched another site, Self Made Minds which is all about making money on the Net (my second favourite past time after gadgets) and will include a full history of how CG became what it is in the past 18 months (traffic, revenue, mistakes, warts and all).

Sorry for making this a bit of a “me” post but I’ve also just been interviewed about CG by my good mate Dan over at Daily Blog Tips, it’s in part of his interesting blogger face off series and I was up against another mate Vic, the master behind Uber Review, as it’s a face off competition I need votes so please check it out

So if you want to make (more) money on the Net check out Self Made Minds, read the quick fire interview go here or read more about cool gadgets scroll down.

Thanks for reading this somewhat self promotional post.

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I’m delighted to announce that we have a new guest blogger on the CG team, Andrew Tingle.

Andrew runs the very cool blog Thoughts from the Sidelines and will be a real asset to CG. I’ve enjoyed reading TFTS for the last few months and am really looking forward to seeing what he has in store for us.

Welcome on board Andrew.

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With a total of 79 votes the winner of our recent caption competition is DocB with:

The latest in hands on technology

So congratulations DocB, a $20 TG voucher is on it’s way to you.

Our $600 gadget contest is still up and running, we’ve only had 3 entries so far so the odds are certainly in your favor.

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The mailbox is overflowing with the first two entries in our $600 gadget competition.

First off we have Jeff (pictured above) with his CG promotional photo, errrr thanks Jeff.

Another CG regular, Arthur has sent us his review of his antique favourite gadget the TI-84 Plus Silver Edition Read the rest of this entry »

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We had 13 entries in our recent caption competition, I’ve narrowed it down to 4 but need help deciding the overall winner (who’ll be receiving a $20 Think Geek voucher). So please vote for which you think is the funniest (I’ll announce the winner in 48 hours).

(if you can’t see the vote control thingie click here)

We’ve also got a $600 gadget contest running at the moment, no entries as yet so if you fancy a go the chances are good…

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A few days ago we were dancing around as we found out we had 14,394 subscribers, still not really believing it we asked for comments and offered a prize to the funniest. We didn’t get the 14,394 comments (pah!) though 30 was a good start (thanks folks) and to celebrate the fact we broke the 15,000 subscriber mark the next day we’ll be sending out two random gadgets.

The 2 lucky winners are, drum roll please, Leanne for sending us this poem: Read the rest of this entry »

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I was just looking over our stats for how many people follow Coolest Gadgets via our RSS feed, we usually have around 3,000 subscribers but yesterday we were showing 14,394, a whopping 380% increase!

After doing a bit of research (thanks ShoeMoney and FeedBurner) it turns out that Google are now reporting the total number of subscribers using Google Reader and Google Personalized Homepage (not just the number of times they index the feed). So this new figure may actually be true.

I am absolutely amazed (and very happy) that we have this number of subscribers but I still don’t really believe it, so if you’re reading this via our feed please come over to the site and leave a comment (I’ll post out some random gadget to the author of the funniest comment).

The next goal is 15,000 subscribers so if you’re a feed follower haven’t subscribed yet here’s the link .

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