January 14th, 2009
Another Eye-Fi product wins CES 2009 Last Gadget Standing contest
In addition to meeting with folks and browsing the show floor at CES, I also make sure to attend the Last Gadget Standing competition event. I wasn’t able to make it to CES this year and when I went searching around for the winner I thought I was finding the wrong articles in my searches because this year’s winner is a variation of the same product that won in 2008. The Eye-Fi wireless card won in 2008 and this year the Eye-Fi Video Card won. This new version supports wireless uploading of both still and video files to your PC or selected websites.
The new Eye-Fi Video card is actually still in development and not yet available for purchase. Like the previous Eye-Fi card (there are actually four different models) the new Video card is in a Secure Digital format with an integrated WiFi radio. I may soon have to pick one of these up for our family since all I hear about this gadget is that it rocks.
The online winner was actually the HeartMath emWave PSR device while the Eye-Fi Video Card was the crowd favorite at the CES live presentation. The HeartMath is a biofeedback device that monitors your heart rate and breathing and presents the data to you so you can help relieve stress.
The ten selected finalists vying for the title were:
- emWave PSR
- Eye-Fi Video Card
- Motorola MotoZine ZN5
- Bug Labs BUG
- WowWee Joebot
- Livescribe Pulse Smartpen
- Pure Digital Flip MinoHD
- T-Mobile G1
- Clickfree Transformer USB cable
- MSI Wind U100
You can view the online poll results to see how your favorite ended up in the competition. There were some very worthy products on the list and I have a three of them myself (T-Mobile G1, Flip MinoHD, and MSI Wind).
Matthew Miller is an avid mobile device enthusiast who works during the day as a professional naval architect in Seattle. See his full profile and disclosure of his industry affiliations.
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