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.

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

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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.

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 »

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…

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 »

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 .

I’ve had a sightly distraught email from Michelle over at American Inventor Spot saying that we published a copyrighted image of theirs and worse still removed the copyright notice. This came to me as something of a shock and worse still, turned out to be true.

I’ve had a long chat with our writer of the post in question and it turns out he made an honest (albeit bloody stupid) mistake thinking that by crediting the source with a link he could remove the copyright from the image (though I’m not sure what is dumber, doctoring the image or believing the glasses were real in the first place ).

Dan did offer to quit writing for CG because of this mistake, an offer I’ve not accepted. I’m a firm believer in learning from mistakes (though ideally other peoples) and Dan is a very valuable member of the cool team we have going here.

At the end of the day the buck stops with me, so apologies again to American Inventor Spot, you have a great site there that I’m sure we’ll be linking to and quoting from you (properly) in the future. I’d also like to apologise to any other blogs that picked up on the story from us and used our doctored image (the ones I’ve found so far are Gizmodo and SciFi Tech).

I’m sick of it, every time I tell somebody about the site I have to spell it, coolest *HYPHEN* gadgets *dot* com, which gets some what annoying when you’re wandering around a show floor, so enough is enough! Read the rest of this entry »