Last Gadget Standing: The Ten Finalists

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Dozens of companies that will be demonstrating their products at next week’s Consumer Electronics Show nominated themselves for the Last Gadget Standing competition. We judges whittled the contenders down to 25 semi-finalists. And now we’ve cut down that list to ten finalists who will get to show their stuff at our event at CES in Las Vegas next week. One of them will be…the last gadget standing.

Our finalists include:
Acer’s Iconia two-screen notebook…

Barnes & Noble’s Nookcolor e-reader..

Fujifilm’s Finepix Real 3D W3 camera…

Google and Samsung’s Nexus S smartphone…

Looxcie’s wearable camcorder…

Sifteo Cubes digital blocks…

…and Sonomax’s Soundcage headphones.

Three products that will be officially announced at CES also made the final cut:

  • A never-before-seen product from Fujitsu
  • A new technology from Intel
  • An undisclosed special surprise

The winner will be chosen using an applause meter at the CES event, which will be held on Saturday, January 8 at 10:30 a.m. in Room N257-258 of the Las Vegas Convention Center, North Hall. But even if you won’t be in Vegas, you can participate: We’ll also hold online voting starting January 5th at LastGadgetStanding.com, and the winner of that poll will be named as People’s Choice.

Here’s the official press release, with some more details; follow @lastgadget2011 on Twitter for more news. If you were choosing a winner from the above candidates right now, which one would you pick?

15 Comments for this post:

cajundog says
December 29, 2010 at 6:10 am

Come on people, a smartphone and a e-reader? It's suppose to be the last GADGET standing, not the latest flavor of the week hardware!!

Harry McCracken says
December 29, 2010 at 8:19 am

Cajundog–we define "gadget" broadly–as, basically, any tech product you can carry without undue effort–so phones and e-readers qualify

–Harry

@supahjew says
December 29, 2010 at 12:54 pm

I think y'all missed the boat this year. There were some great products in your semifinalists that had lots of buzz and were truly unique, yet you selected some that REALLY aren't pushing the envelope much in terms of gadgetness. I agree with cajundog… smartphone and ereader are nothing new, and frankly kids' digital blocks are simply ridiculous. Even the 3D camera isn't really anything new.

Disappointed…

booklady says
December 30, 2010 at 9:28 am

NookColor gets my vote

Sandy says
December 30, 2010 at 10:23 am

Love my NookColor! I had the B&W 3G before & the color outshines it completely! In addition to reading, web browsing, email, Pandora radio & games are great features of this eReader!

vanessa says
December 30, 2010 at 12:03 pm

have never used the other gadgets but I have the nook color and think its very cool

Steele says
December 30, 2010 at 1:33 pm

NookColor gets my vote. After rooting mine I had an Android Tablet that was stylish, comfortable to hold, and easy to use, all for 250(a software update is expected mid to late Jan. in case you don't want to risk it, though it can be safely restored to factory settings). Best product here by far, though I can see everyone's point as far as kids blocks, 3D camera, and smart phone. Still, there is some really cool stuff here to. I'll have to look more into the Acer, even though I typically am not a fan of the company in general.

lucie says
December 30, 2010 at 2:03 pm

It's NookColor for me too! I've had mine since Thanksgiving (my birthday) and I just love it!
I don't know what "rooting" means, or how to do that, so I guess I will just wait until Froyo 2.2 to come along and enrich my life even more than it is now!

toni says
December 30, 2010 at 2:45 pm

NookColor all the way.

wellguy says
December 30, 2010 at 2:57 pm

Sonomax, Ear buds get my vote cant wait to get a set and finally have reasonable priced great fitting custom built ear phones.

bergerhoo says
December 30, 2010 at 7:10 pm

I guess I gotta go with the Nook Color also. It's smaller than an iPad, priced well, plays movies, shows photos, expandable memory, easier to read display than a Kindle, email, facebook, web browser, and oh yeah…….books, books, books!

Bailey says
December 31, 2010 at 12:42 am

NOOKcolor ftw

Family says
December 31, 2010 at 7:16 am

Definitely NookColor. Love it. Got one for my husband for Christmas. He loves it too. Now the rest of the family wants one.

@NewPharo says
January 1, 2011 at 6:04 am

U think Kodak will Change th game as their Teaser CES 2011 email
"
Hot New Technology From Kodak
Coming Soon

Kodak to make
sharing even easier!

New Kodak camera
packed with high
performance features!

Big news in
shoot and share
video!

The 2011 Internationl CES (Consumer Electronics Show)
is taking place in Las Vegas on January 6-9, 2011.
Watch for all-new products from Kodak.
"

Tom Batterson says
January 1, 2011 at 12:14 pm

Nook color has my vote too.
It is far more than an e-reader I watch movies, check my email, and surf the web (I'm typing this on it right now).

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The Last Gadget Standing looks for products that are more than just a flash in the pan. They are products that will endure and are pioneering the ways in which the digital world will change. Any exhibitor at CES can enter a product into the Last Gadget Standing – though it must be a , not a service or software. Products need to have shipped during 2011 or be available for shipping by the end of Q2 of 2012. We honor NDAs and we reserve two spaces for products that have winner potential but won’t be announced until the show.

 

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Our panel of expert judges have multiple years of expertise in reviewing products. Judges include Michael Miller, Harry McCracken, Dan Costa, Mellissa Perenson, and Joanna Stern. Our experts review your applications and narrow the list down to 25 semi-finalists. Each product submitted gets a description on the website and readers are welcome to comment. The judges will write reviews of the 25 semifinalists and we’ll continue to solicit reader comments until we narrow the list down to the Top 10.

 

The Top Ten finalists are invited to the Vegas stage where we play to a full house. Entertainment and fun are just and important as educating the audience about your product. We encourage you to watch the videos from past years and get a feel for this very different type of event. At the same time that the audience is voting live in Las Vegas we will also be asking our online followers to vote among the same top ten and choose a "people's winner." A press release announcing the winners will go out the moment the show has ended.

 

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