That magical night
known as the Academy Awards is upon us, where celebrities put aside their petty squabbles and come together in a
self-serving show of star worship, and more importantly (for our purposes, at least), limited edition electronics that
are shamelessly bandied about in hopes of becoming the next celeb gadget-du-jour. Besides the
iced-out Kodak V570 and
special edition PEBL that
we showed you previously, PC Mag has discovered several other gadgety gifts that will be bestowed upon the presenters,
winners, and even the losers at tonight's Oscars. Among the rest of the swanky gift bag items will be a Vonage VTech
Broadband VoIP phone system, the
ip8100, that
will go to presenters, as well as Solar StyleOne solar chargers for those who show up in green rides ("I'm telling
you, my Hummer is modified to run on biodiesel- now gimme my damn charger!"). Losers will take home a less-glitzy
GPS car monitoring device from Drive Sync, which seems more functional than a statuette but less aesthetically pleasing
in a trophy case.
[Thanks,
Sammy]
