Join Coolest Gadgets on your Mobile
Previously, browsing Coolest Gadgets on your phone was slow, expensive and generally a pain in the butt. So today we are offering a new feature, Coolest Gadgets – Mobile Edition.
Now if you wish to get your gadget fix on the move simply point your mobile browser at coolest-gadgets.com or coolest-gadgets.mobi and we will automagically detect that you’re on a mobile connection and show you a specially designed version of the site.
The mobile version keeps images and bandwidth to a minimum with the layout being designed to fit better on the small screen.
So far we’ve tested this on a few PDAs, smartphones and various emulators and touch wood all look pretty good. However there are thousands of phones out there so it you see any problems please let us know, in fact if it works ok on your phone please tell us (you can send comments via your phone too).
At the moment we don’t have access to an iPhone so if somebody could try and test on that sleek piece of kit it would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks and enjoy.
Welcome 40,000 Gadget Loving Subscribers
Yesterday we hit a milestone, we had just over 40,000 people reading Coolest Gadgets via our RSS feed (
), which is simply awesome 
. To celebrate we’ll be giving away a $50 Think Geek voucher, after this thank you message.
So in no particular order I’d like to thank all the writers who’ve done a cracking job over the years. We also received a fair few comments so thanks to Neagle, EEJ, George, GrimReeper, tecwzrd and the many others who correct my our mistakes and add to the debate.
We also get our fair share of link love from other sites, I can’t list them all here so I’ll thank a few with links and the rest in spirit. So cheers Gadget Metro, Slippery Brick, DeGadget, Gizmotika, No Puedo Creer, Hacked Gadgets, Gizmodo, Born Rich, RGS, Burst Blog, tech.ruizology, PixMedial, Gear Fuse, Ounae, The Goat, Nerd Approved, Oh Gizmo, Shiny Shiny, ZedoMax, Gadget Venue, Sugared Ants, I could go on and on with the thank you’s but I think you get the gist, to those sites I missed thanks again.
Next up it’s competition time, as Think Geek don’t do a $40 voucher (appropriate for 40K subscribers) we’ll have to give away a $50 voucher instead. So in order to have a change of winning, simply leave a comment here and tell us what’s your favourite gadget we’ve every written about. In 48 hours we’ll then have a poll to decide whose was the most amusing (as that’s the only way I can think of judging it).
We’ll do something similar but bigger when we hit 50,000 subscribers so if you haven’t subscribed yet here’s the link . Thanks again and good luck.
We have a New Editor
I am delighted to announce that Coolest Gadgets has a new editor, Edwin Kee. Edwin has been writing for us for the best part of a year and I’m sure will do a fantastic job in this new role.
I will continue to post on CG but will now be able to spend more time behind the scenes, sourcing contest prizes and completing an addition I’ve been working on the last few months (more to follow on that one soon).
So thanks Edwin for accepting the role and fixing the typos I’ve probably just made .
$25 TG Winner – Guess the number of screen resolutions
Our latest contest was to guess how many different screen resolutions have been used to view this site over the past 7 days and I am delighted to say it proved a bit more difficult than our previous guess the image competition.
We had entries ranging from 2 (hmmm) right up to 122 and to be honest I don’t think anybody deserved to win
Continue reading » TG Winner – Guess the number of screen resolutions
$25 Contest – Screen Resolutions
I was just checking visitor statistics and came across a pie chart which showed what screen resolutions people use to browse Coolest Gadgets at. As our guess the gadget competition was a bit too easy, I wanted to make the next contest a bit trickier and this statistic seemed an ideal contest candidate.
So to have a chance of winning a $25 Think Geek voucher simply leave a comment with the number of how many different screen resolutions you think have been used to view Coolest Gadgets over the last week.
The winner will be whoever gets closest (or exact), in the case of a draw whoever posted the closest comment first wins.
The contest is open for the next 24 hours, good luck. Oh and only one entry per person for obvious reasons.
CG – 20th most subscribed blog?
Some really sad stat head cool guy called me Al Carlton over at Self Made Minds has produced a list of the 100 most subscribed to blogs ranked by FeedBurner subscriber counts. At the time of writing CG is ranked 20th with 28984 readers
The chart doesn’t show sites that don’t use FeedBurner or publish the figures, hence the omission of gadget legends Gizmodo but I still reckon it’s pretty cool.
So thanks to everybody who follows our daily gadget quest via the feed and also thanks to all the other sites who don’t publish their feed counts thus giving us a chance to be twentieth . Cheers to All Gadgets for the idea of the slanted image.
$20 Guess the Gadget, Winner is…
We had our first guess the gadget contest yesterday which turned into a “copy what the person above me said” which would of been okay if the first person hadn’t got it right. However first commenter Jack got it right, it’s a bra washer, well a device to protect your bra in the washing machine, the BraBABY. Joat then totally gave the game away by giving away the URL *rolls eyes*.
Richard made me laugh by changing his answers:
Is it a light? Or perhaps a set of stackable storage baskets…
That’s the way, now everyone knows it’s for washing bras… and everyone can enter the lucky draw! Thanks!
(It’s a bra washer!)
Mark S is right, it’s a bra holder
and Matthew of Gadget Venue had the most amusing answer: “Its a double secure hamster prison cell. Really!”
I’ll take Bra Washer or holder as the correct answer, so courtesy of random.org the winner is…. Continue reading » Guess the Gadget, Winner is…
How many daily gadget posts should we do?
We’re currently in the process of recruiting some new blood to the writing team of Coolest Gadgets, we’ve had about 20 applicants which I am sifting though (if you haven’t heard back from me yet you will do very soon, whilst if you meant to apply it’s not too late yet).
Whilst taking on new writers I thought it would be a good time to re-evaluate how many posts we do on a daily basis and more importantly how many posts you the reader would like us to do on a daily basis. So please let us know by voting in the poll or leaving a comment.
If you reading this via the feed or a personalised Google home page you’ll need to visit the site to cast your vote. Thanks in advance everybody.
