We're floored! Over a thousand people braved lines to join us at tonight's Engadget reader meetup in San Francisco, our biggest ever event by far! We're completely humbled, but you're not out of the woods yet. Do us a favor and share your photos and video from tonight, would you? We'll post 'em up tomorrow for everyone to check out. Thanks again, SF!

Please add your pictures to the Engadget Flickr pool here.
And please add your videos to YouTube with the tag engadget2007sf.

We'd also like to thank the premium event sponsor of our San Francisco event, the Bluetooth SIG, who really helped us make this whole thing happen!

Tonight's the big night, SF bay area! Our FREE and ALL AGES reader meetup goes off at 7PM at UCSF Mission Bay, where we'll have:

• Free food and drinks
• Product demos
• Audience Q&A with execs and Engadget editors
  
• ... and will be giving away literally hundreds of devices -- tens of thousands of dollars of gadgets.

Hit the read link for details -- hope to see you there!

We'd also like to thank the premium event sponsor of our San Francisco event, the Bluetooth SIG, who've been instrumental in getting this thing off the ground!

Just a reminder to everyone in or visiting the SF bay area about our reader meetup that's going on tomorrow night, 7PM at UCSF Mission Bay! We'll have product demos, audience Q&A, free food and drinks, and will be giving away literally hundreds of devices -- tens of thousands of dollars of gadgets -- on the spot. Hit the read link for details -- hope to see you there!

P.S. -Also, a note to the local hackers in the audience! We'd like to try out the "lightning talks" round here in the US -- let us know if you have something interesting and electronic that you might want to show off! (Email us at event att engadget dawt com.)

Last week in Tokyo was pretty amazing, but this Wednesday's reader event in San Francisco promises to be possibly our most amazing yet. Here's a bit about what you can expect:

• We're giving away literally tens of thousands of dollars in gear, including...
• A free Sandisk Sansa Connect (4GB with WiFi) to the first 200 people! (And free Flickr Pro accounts for the next 250 people.)
• We'll also have free food and drinks!
  
• Live Q&A session with Engadget
• The event is ALL AGES and FREE ADMISSION
• As well as giveaways from: Drobo, Motorola, Nokia, OQO, Plantronics, Samsung, SanDisk, Sling, and others!

When: Wednesday, October 10th, 7:00PM - 10:00PM [Listing on Upcoming]
Please note, however, that we have changed our event location! We are no longer holding the event at Mighty, the event is now at the Mission Bay Conference Center at UCSF.

Also, a note to the local hackers in the audience! We'd like to try out the "lightning talks" round here in the US -- let us know if you have something interesting and electronic that you might want to show off!

We'd also like to thank the premium event sponsor of our San Francisco event, the Bluetooth SIG, who've been instrumental in getting this thing off the ground!

Oh, and please leave us a comment if you're thinking of attending so we can at least try to estimate how many to expect. See you there! (Map, directions, and full list of companies at the event after the break.)

Listen, we've just got to say thanks. We got shown some serious love at our Tokyo reader meetup this week, and we're not only really grateful for the 200+ readers who came out to hang out with Engadget (and who took a ton of photos and almost 100 videos), but for the variety of guests we had, including Mr. Yamamitsu (CEO of Thanko), who participated in a live interview, as well as the "lightning talks" round of hackers, homebrewers, modders, researchers, and all around Japanese über-geeks. So, much love to everyone who came out and helped make our Tokyo event pop off!

P.S. -Oh, and check out some videos after the break. And stay tuned for further details on the SF Engadget reader meetup this week.

Tokyo: thanks for coming out! Over 200 people came to hang out Engadget style tonight -- so it's probably not too much to expect you'd have documented something, eh? Send in your pictures and video, we'll throw it up on the site tomorrow in our aftermath post.

Please add your pictures to the Engadget Flickr pool here.
And please add your videos to YouTube as a response to our meetup video (which is posted after the break), or with the tag engadget2007tokyo.

Once again, big ups to our hosts and sponsor Google Japan!

P.S. -Our apologies to those that didn't make it in. We had limited space, but we're extremely grateful you made the trip out to see us, even knowing you might not make it through the door. Let us know who you are next time, we'll hook you up with the VIP treatment.

We're all the more excited to see everyone at our Tokyo reader meetup tonight! That is, tomorrow-tonight -- Japan lives a day in the future, remember? Ok, specifically: the event's in Tokyo October 4th, starting around 7:00PM, Japan Standard Time.

However, we do have to warn those considering coming: space is tight, and due to the overwhelming response we've had we may not be able to guarantee everyone's admission -- our apologies in advance!

Tonight's event is ALL AGES and FREE ADMISSION. We'll also be serving food and bevs.

Tokyo - October 4th, ~7:00PM - 9:00PM, Cerulean Tower (7th floor -- OFFICE section, not hotel)
If you're Nihongo-inclined, please check Engadget Japanese for more information.

English directions (thanks Umijin!)

• Exit the JR Shibuya station from the "minami" or South exit.
• Cross the expressway with one of the stairway overpasses. Look for the mammoth building, as above.
• If you get lost, just ask anyone where Cerulean Tower is -- also, check out the Tower's English site.
• Remember, you want the business entrance to the 7th floor, not the hotel entrance!

We'd also like to thank our host in Tokyo, Google Japan! [Image by NGU]

Setup video after the break!

Tokyo, San Francisco! We're coming to town to hang out, so please join us THIS WEEK in Tokyo as we host our first ever Japanese readup in Google / YouTube Japan's offices. Next week in San Francisco we'll be at Mighty. Directions and info below.

Both events are ALL AGES and FREE ADMISSION (as usual).

Tokyo - October 4th, ~6:30PM - 9:00PM, Cerulean Tower (7th floor) [map]
Please note we have limited capacity, but we will do our best to accommodate everyone that shows up!

San Francisco - October 10th, 7:00PM - 10:00PM, Mighty [map]

We'd also like to thank the premium event sponsor of our San Francisco event, the Bluetooth SIG, as well as our host in Tokyo, Google Japan!

Note: If you're thinking of coming to the Tokyo event please let us know in comments! It helps when we're figuring out catering and all that stuff. (Don't worry about San Francisco, we'll have more reminders on that one soon. And for everyone else who wants Engadget to come to your town, we'll do our best next time!)

Engadget fans in Tokyo, San Francisco, and New York! We're scheduling our next round of reader meetups in your cities, but we need your help in finding a good spot. If you've got a good suggestion of some place that will put up with the motley likes of us and our crowd, please do let us know below in comments.

Likewise, if you have a space and you're willing to hook us up, please get in touch (email event at engadget dawt com). We'll do our best to make it worth your while. Here are the dates we're looking at:

Tokyo - October 4th (we're expecting this one to be relatively smallish), more here for our Japanese audience
San Francisco - October 10th (we're figuring a few hundred)
New York - October 29th or 30th (also figuring a few hundred)

It's the first ever Joystiq Reader Meetup tonight, and Engadget's going to be there to show some love and support. So if you're not opposed to spending quality time with some E3-addled crazies, we'd love to have you. Get there early for the free t-shirts, stick around for high tales of liveblogging misadventure. If you do plan on attending, be sure to head over to Joystiq and let them know in the comments.

When: 6PM-9PM on Friday 13th
Where: Mahalo HQ, 902 Colorado Ave. Santa Monica 90401 (Google Maps link)

And yes, this event is all ages!

LA-area readers! We know you've been asking us for years to do a reader meetup in your humble little town of, what, five, maybe ten million? Well, we didn't quite have enough time to put together a full on Engadget event of our own, but our bestest buds at Joystiq are doing a little something and Peter and myself will be on hand to chum it up with LA-area gadget and game geeks. We can't guarantee the usual free booze + tshirts + gadget giveaways, but we can guarantee a good old fashioned geek-out at to Mahalo HQ in Santa Monica. So leave us a comment if you think you'll be able to come on out tomorrow!

When: 6PM-9PM on Friday 13th
Where: Mahalo HQ, 902 Colorado Ave. Santa Monica 90401 (Google Maps link)

And yes, this event is all ages!

We came to town, we saw a teensy bit (namely the immediate area near Jillian's and Fenway), and about 400 of you guys showed up to totally conquer the Engadget reader meetup Boston. We know you'd have probably come out even if we didn't hand out free shirts, beer tickets, and have major giveaways from such great sponsors as Sonos, Sling Media, and Slim Devices -- but it didn't hurt, right? Big thanks for everyone who hung out, chatted it up, knocked one back, and generally made us feel at home. We're not sure when we'll next be back to Boston, but hopefully it'll be sooner than later!

P.S. -Loads more pics after the break!
P.P.S -For those former meetup goers feeling nostalgic, the other events are here, here, here, and here.

Hey Boston,

Thanks a ton for coming out last night -- we had a great time hanging with you Beantown style! And big thanks to Sonos, Sling Media, Slim Devices, and the rest of our sponsors for supporting the event. We'll save our full summary of the evening's festivities for our usual "aftermath" post (see: here, here, here, and here), but if you have pics from the event you'd like to see posted here on Engadget please send 'em in to us! (You can hit us up at engadget at gmail dawt com.) See you real soon!

Much love,
Engadget

Well wouldn't you know it? Last week Engadget China had a reader meetup of their very own out Hong Kong way. We really do wish we could have been there to hang out, but it looks like the situation was firmly in hand without us sad American sacks starting to wax poetic about how much we love our readers the world over. As always, much love for our Chinese colleagues and readership, we'll be seeing you real soon.

Check out the Hong Kong escapades here, here, and finally, here.

So our European correspondent Thomas and I were chatting the other day about my upcoming trip to Amsterdam when we came to the conclusion that it was about time we held an Engadget Reader Meetup over there. I'm only there for a couple of days, but are there any Engadget readers in Amsterdam who'd be down for an event on July 20th? Let us know in the comments if there's any interest and we'll try and get something together. I read somewhere in my Lonely Planet guidebook that people in Amsterdam like to party, so please don't disappoint me.

P.S. - We're on the hunt for both a venue and a sponsor, so if you can hook us up with either please drop us a line in the comments.