Last Gadget Standing: The Results Are In!

Posted: 01.09.2011, 8:57am
Comments 2 Comments views 18,895 views
Rate this
Average rating:

The suspense is over! Yesterday morning, a standing-room-only throng of CES attendees attended the tenth annual Last Gadget Standing event (co-sponsored by Technologizer and LGS creator Robin Raskin’s Living in Digital Times), and witnessed demos–from the straightforward to the wild and crazy–from the ten finalists. Then they voted for their favorite gizmos by clapping, cheering, whistling, hooting, and hollering.

The Last Gadget Standing–as determined by applause-o-meter at the event is Acer’s Iconia, a notebook with two 14-inch screens and a touchscreen interface. And the People’s Choice winner–determined by an online poll–is Barnes & Noble’s Nookcolor “reader’s tablet.”

A few photographic highlights:

The winning gadget, Acer’s Iconia, got a demo that was, well…Enterprising.

Barnes & Noble’s Jonathan Shar, who was supposed to demonstrate the People’s Choice winner, the Nookcolor, couldn’t make it. So his mom filled in.

Nexus S manufacturer Samsung treated us to an intimate conversation with Android 2.3 “Gingerbread.”

We had a few appropriate Vegas trimmings.

The Howard Stern Show‘s Gary Dell’Abate and Jon Hein cohosted the event with Robin and myself, provided a halftime trivia show, and actually helped control the chaos rather than contributing to it.

And our judges, including Engadget’s Joanna Stern (seen here showing off Looxie), introduced demos and explained why the ten finalists had gotten this far.

Thanks to the entrants, our judges, and everyone who voted in person or online or otherwise chimed in as we winnowed hundreds of nominees down to  two winners.

2 Comments for this post:

Goatboy9099 says
January 16, 2011 at 1:58 pm

Nice article ! Personally I like to hear about the new technology like Intels "sandy bridge" processor entry this year. But… What I read these articles for is the way cool gadgets, not processor architecture. So in keeping with that let me just say the skinniest "snapscan" was great but I had to VOTE for the Looxie ear mounted Cam!

diek says
March 3, 2011 at 12:42 am

NFL Jersey $21.88
NBA Jersey $23
NHL Jersey $33.8
MBL Jersey $23
FOOtball Jersey $23
Sunglass $12
Caps$hats $8.8
Handbags $36
web:tradetrusting

Write your comments:





Search

 

 

spacer

 

 

 

 

 

CES Gallery

last-gadget-9-xl last-gadget-8-xl last-gadget-6-xl last-gadget-5-xl last-gadget-4-xl_0 last-gadget-4-xl last-gadget-3-xl_0 last-gadget-3-xl last-gadget-2-xl_0 last-gadget-2-xl last-gadget-17-xl last-gadget-16-xl last-gadget-15-xl last-gadget-14-xl last-gadget-13-xl last-gadget-12-xl last-gadget-11-xl last-gadget-1-xl_0

 

About

Last Gadget Standing

 

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.

 

Old timers, sorry, but we’ve had to include a small entrée fee this year to cover the costs of the production and space. There is a $500 entry fee.

 

 

How We Judge Your Products

 

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.

 

Special Host

 

We’re extremely lucky this year to have Gary “Bababooey” Dell’Abate and Jon Hein, of the Howard Stern Wrap Up Show to emcee the Last Gadget Standing . They love products and they love the CES crowd.

Latest Tweets

Categories