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CES Reports: Play "The Last Gadget Standing"

Gadgets. We love 'em. We hate 'em. We wait for the perfect one to come our way and just to make sure they don't pass us by, we make annual pilgrimages to Vegas in search of the Next Big Thing.

What better place to see gadgets in their true glory than at CES's Last Gadget Standing competition? Each year PC Magazine Editor-in-Chief Michael Miller, former editor and technology consultant Robin Raskin, and the current PC Magazine editorial team pick the year's most intriguing gadgets, with an eye towards the one most likely to succeed in the marketplace. Because we know that technology pundits are often too caught up in the moment to make accurate predictions, we're asking you to help out.

If you're in Las Vegas attending CES on January 10th, come join us for a live demo session and cast your vote at 1:30 PM in Room N257 of the Las Vegas Convention Center. Not in Vegas? No problem, you can still cast your vote in the poll you see at right.

You tell usWhich one of the following gadgets is more than just a flash in the pan? Which one will be around long enough to become a ubiquitous part of this digital life?

Click "next" to see this year's players in The Last Gadget Standing:

Sound Blaster Wireless Music Creative Labs

Digital Media Adapters are big news --- these wireless wonders that let your PC's music and photos travel from one room to another are now easy to use and affordable. This one stands apart from the crowd. It lets you play all of your MP3 and WMA music from your PC in any room of your home using 802.11b or 802.11g wireless connectivity. The cool factor? The remote control has a large LCD screen that lets you view and choose your songs and playlists without sitting and reading the TV screen. Get more details.

Delphi XM SKYFi Audio System Delphi

XM Satellite Radio Network is gaining momentum and SKYFi is a big part of the reason why. This satellite boom box lets you listen to XM radio at home, on the road  even the beach or a park bench. Powered by six D batteries, the SKYFi contains a pair of high quality speakers and a docking station for the receiver. Get more details.

palmOne Treo 600 palmOne

The search for the Holy Grail of handheld devices may be nearing an end with this smartphone. The Treo is full-featured mobile phone and Palm OS organizer with wireless applications like email, text messaging, web browsing and a digital camera. Notable is its size --- so small it fits right in your pocket --- and the fact that palmOne has so much software available to use on it. Incredibly usable, you can check your calendar while talking on the phone, dial calls directly from your contacts list, or take a picture and e-mail it to a friend with ease. And with features like the dome-capped QWERTY keyboard, the five-way navigation button, and the Favorites screen, you can quickly do whatever you want. Get more details.

Motorola MPx200 Motorola

The Motorola MPx200 combines a Windows-centric handheld and telephone (with an emphasis on the phone) into one device. It does an outstanding job of managing personal information, synchronizing your e-mail, contacts, and calendar with Microsoft Outlook, as well as offering Web browsing and gaming functionality. The phone has two LCD screens: a color display on the flip-up panel and a monochrome one on the case top to show the time, date, signal strength, battery power, and caller ID. You can browse the Web using Pocket Internet Explorer, download and listen to digital music, and view video clips via Windows Media Player. Get more details.

Motorola IMfree Motorola

Instant Messaging has become an integral part of our culture, evolving far beyond its origins as the digital kid's time-waster. But you can liberate yourself from the chains of your deskbound PC by using IMfree. Simply plug in the base unit into to your PC's USB port and you can start chatting on AOL Instant Messenger from up to 150 feet away. The device itself is wireless and about the size of a slice of bread, with a nine-line LCD and keyboard. It supports buddy lists and up to six simultaneous IM sessions, and you can use up to seven IMfree units with the base station. Get more details.

Tapwave Zodiac Tapwave

The Zodiac is a personal organizer with all the typical Palm OS utilities, but it's also a 6.3-ounce portable game system with a 3.8-inch screen powered by the ATI Imageon 2-D graphics accelerator and Fathammer X-Forge 3-D graphics engine. If that's not enough, it also plays MP3s. It's a PDA with a gamer's sensibilities. Get more details.

Archos Video AV320 Archos

"Why stop at an MP3 player?" asked PC Magazine Contributing Editor Bill Howard. The Archos AVCam 320 is an all-purpose portable multimedia player that can record and playback movies with stereo MP3 audio. It doubles (and triples) as a powerful MP3 recorder and player, personal photo player and storage device. It's also a voice recorder and, with add-on options, it'll transform itself into a digital still camera, video camera and FM tuner. The AV320 utilizes a 20-to-80-gigabyte USB 2.0 hard drive running on the Linux platform. In can record, store, and play back MPEG-4 video, MP3 music, spoken audio, and JPEG photos. You can send the output to a TV set and the included PC utility lets you translate AVI files to MPEG-4 before transferring them to the AV320. Get more details.

kiloWatt Intensity Gaming System Powergrid Fitness

This product won't fit in your pocket but it will help you get into smaller pants. KiloWatt is a game controller for Xbox or PlayStation II that lets you burn calories as you play your favorite games. The company calls this new experience "intensity gaming," and hopes to eliminate the couch potato syndrome afflicting so many gamers. The kiloWatt controller does everything other game controllers do but relies on pushing, pulling back and tilting the bar (Segway-style) to control direction and speed. Powergrid Fitness took the thumbstick controls that are present on standard PlayStation 2 and Xbox controllers and put them in something resembling a cross-country-skiing contraption. The unit lets you become a human joystick of sorts using body movements to direct your onscreen items. KiloWatt measures force rather than motion, so the reaction and gameplay is responsive and the effort level can be made as tough or easy as you'd like.

Microsoft Direct Watch Microsoft Corp.

Every few years, the Dick Tracy-style digital wristwatch resurfaces. Now Microsoft's Direct Watch is promising instant access to information on the wrist, rather than in the palm of our hand. Traffic reports, news, stocks, and a personal calendar can all be delivered to your wristwatch. Born of Microsoft's Smart Personal Objects Technology (SPOT), the product implants always-on wireless connectivity in simple accessories from watches to pendants. SPOT will update your timepiece with the local time and weather wherever you are via a unique identifier in each device. SPOT relies on FM radio towers for updating information, so whether you're standing at the Golden Gate or the Brooklyn Bridge you'll get localized information. Get more details.

Philips Digital Camera Key Ring Philips Consumer Products

For easy transport of the latest tunes or quick snapshots at your fingertips, check out Philips' key ring USB devices. The digital camera has 1-megapixel resolution -- enough for taking fun shots on the go. The MP3-playing version is available with 64MB or 128MB of memory. The snazzier 128MB version has controls woven into the included neck lanyard. Get more details.

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