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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.
Written by Matthew Miller, Contributing Writer

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).

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