The holiday shopping season is here and we've compiled an Uber10 list. A vote is open on the uber10 page to select an 11th gadget so help us choose!

The Uber10 Awards were unveiled at a cool Ubergizmo event in San Francisco last week (sponsored by Dolby and Intel, check the party photos). We hope that these suggestions will give you save time. On the financial side, there are a few ways to save: you can find the best deal and order online, or wait for Black Friday and hope that your favorite gadget goes on sale, which is unlikely if it's really cool, but who knows?

Now would be a good time to become a fan on Facebook. Happy shopping!

Yes, it's that time of the year again (we can't believe it!). Soon, you will run around wondering what to get for your loved ones -probably at the last minute. We can help by suggesting the 10 greatest gifts (under $500) for this holiday season. They are called the “Uber10&rdquo. Please help us select an 11th gift by voting on an extended list (coming any day now).

The Uber10 will be unveiled in a private event in San Francisco on November 12, thanks to our Platinum Sponsor Dolby and Gold Sponsor Intel. Dolby will build a surround sound setup at the event venue to show us what the Dolby Surround Sound Experience is all about. You may be able to experience it for yourself, if the Dolby Truck stops by your town. Check out the cool Dolby videos on Youtube.

Intel will talk about the new Intel Sponsors of Tomorrow campaign and their hilarious "rock star" videos: "Intel Star" TV ad and Intel's "Big Ideas" TV ad

At the private event in San Francisco, both sponsors will demonstrate the coolest gadgets with their latest embedded technology.

Check out the 2007 and 2008 Uber10 lists, This 2009 edition will be published at ubergizmo.com/uber10

We have a few extra tickets for the private event, go to this discussion page on our Facebook Fan page to know how you can get one.

Editor's note: this seems obvious, but we would like to make it clear that companies with products nominated to the Uber10 cannot be accepted as sponsors of the Uber10 event.

NLU Products, maker of TatSkinz protective body art for electronic devices, will hold its first-ever iPod cover design contest through November, providing artists and technology aficionados the opportunity to turn their personal artwork into the next TatSkinz. I (Eliane) am one of the judges for this competition. One winning creative genius will see his or her “tat” incorporated into the TatSkinz line-up and win either a $1000 scholarship or 13” MacBook. In addition to popular vote from online visitors to the site, several prominent technology and design reviewers will serve as guest judges for the contest, ultimately deciding on the winning design. Contest participants should submit designs at TatSkinz.com/contest beginning October 1; submissions will be accepted through the entire month of November.

You can vote for your favorite design on this page: http://www.tatskinz.com/content/customercare/page-vote.htm

and NLU Products will use the popular vote to determine the front-runners for the judges’ consideration. Please read the complete article to get the judges list and the contact rules and regulation. For more information or to enter the contest visit www.TatSkinz.com.

Continue Reading"Win Apple Computer or a $1.00 Scholarship Through Tatskinz Design Contest"

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The LeWeb conference is next month and the event now has a new website and many updates, along with a list of confirmed speakers list. The founders of LeWeb have also posted a video in which they present the speakers. You might have noticed the LeWeb banner on the right side of this site, that's because Ubergizmo is a online partner of LeWeb. As such, we will be covering the event from Paris. There is more information in the full post (including a 10% discount on some flights), see you there if you go, if not, check out our coverage of the show, starting on December 9th

If you haven't made it to San Francisco for the Web 2.0 Summit, we've posted this photo gallery to show you what it looked like from the inside. You can catch some details over on our live blogging section, but there's nothing like being on-site, we guess... The highlight of the first day was the discussion between John Battelle and Evan Williams (Twitter's CEO) about the revenue model of the popular web service. In the meantime, we’ll keep an eye open to report on interesting developments.

In an hour, I (Eliane) will be a judge for the Annual Silicon Valley Summit organized by ANZA Technology Network held at the Plug and Play Center in Sunnyvale, California (Oct 6-7) . The two other judges are John Dyson from Starfish Ventures and Simon Anderson, CMO of Pictage.com. The innovative Australian tech companies presenting at the conference are part of a 2-month program (Gateway to the US) devoted to exploring US market expansion opportunities, starting in Silicon Valley.

Tickets are $55 and can be purchased at this link: http://www.anzatechnet.com/conference2009/reg/reg1_summit.jsp

The Australian-based companies include:

• Earth Utility, a sustainable utility company that makes sustainability simple and affordable.
• iPOWOW!, an integrated platform and tools for online video, which collects attitude and opinion from any video in real-time, and allows for sophisticated reporting on responses.
• myCaRMS, enterprise software that addresses the dual requirements of regulatory compliance and risk assessment for financial institutions.
• Myownpad, social networking and social gaming integration into a unique virtual world platform that provides an immersive, interactive and social 3D experience.
• Software Shortlist, a proprietary method to help businesses identify software that is most appropriate for their business.
• Spinergy, renewable "clean" energy generation technologies that provide in situ power to drive instrumentation and telemetry equipment. These technologies are cheaper, safer, easier to install, and more reliable and robust once in operation.
• Tradeslot, combination optimization technology and auction technology that creates transparent and efficient primary markets for scarce resources such as carbon, timber, grain, iron ore, water and more.

Like.com, Inc. the masterminds behind visual search for shopping and the first visual style personalization tech (Covet.com) are innovating again. As the top online fashion search engine (over 8 million uniques) Like.com has proven itself to be a key player in e-commerce. Now the Silicon Valley company is creating a revolutionary new site where mainstream, indie and vintage fashions will live together. This new site is in total stealth mode. Recent tweets indicate that they are singling out Fall/Holiday '09 collections while previewing lines for Spring 2010. "The task of choosing the best collections is astounding. There's so much great talent out there, especially in the indie design sector," says Marissa Goodman, Director of Fashion at Like.com. "We will showcase a wide range of hot new designers and fashion mainstays in order to meet the diverse style and budget needs of today's online shopper."

Good news! They're still accepting submissions for review. Designers who would like to shine a spotlight on their original collections should send photos or links to marissa at like.com. But beware, if your designs only live on paper, this isn't the showcase for you. All items need to be built and photo shoot ready.

DEMO has officially started. After a short introduction from Chris Shipley and Matt Marshall, the demos are in full swing. The HP Skyroom is the first product to be demonstrated in stage. Many, more will follow. The most innovative tech products are being demonstrated today and tomorrow. Stay tuned!

We will blog live from DEMOFall 09 in San Diego, starting tomorrow at 8.30 am, follow us on live.ubergizmo.com. 56 products will launch during 6 minutes presentations. You can find the complete list of companies here, and the 15 tech rock stars who will be honored with LifeTime Achieve Awards for their remarkable contribution in the tech industry here.

DEMOFall 09, one of our favorite emerging technology conference will be held in San Diego on September 21st and 23rd and we will cover it live on live.ubergizmo.com. The 56 companies, handpicked by DEMO's longtime executive producer Chris Shipley, will demo their products for the first time during a 6 minute performance on stage. New this year, 14 early stage entrepreneurs and pre-launch mode companies will have 90 seconds to showcase their prototypes. This DEMO session will be the last one for Chris Shipley who is passing the torch to Venture Beat founder Matt Marshall, he will join her on stage as co-executive producer.

In honor of Chris Shipley's tremendous work over the past 13 years and 24 DEMO conferences, DEMO will award 15 legendary alumni with Lifetime Achieve Awards for their remarkable contribution in the tech industry.

We have selected the 3 recipients of our DEMOFall 09 Free Pass Giveaway  that was running from August 31s to Sept 15th, you can see who they are and their comments on the Ubergizmo Facebook Fan Page.

See the DEMOFall 09 Lineup of Emerging Technology Products after the jump in the complete article.

LIVE Coverage will start tomorrow at 8.30 am PT, on live.ubergizmo.com.

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Ubergizmo is a media partner of DEMOFall 09, one of the best emerging technology conference, that will be held in San Diego Sept 21-23. For this particular DEMOFall session, the last one for co-Executive Producer Chris Shipley, 16 tech rocks stars who launched at DEMO during the past 13 years have been invited, including Marc Benioff, Founder & Chairman, Salesforce.com, Diane Greene, Entrepreneur, Founder and Former CEO, VMware; Subrah Iyar, Founder & “former” CEO, WebEx , Andy Rubin, Vice President, Engineering, Google, Mena and Ben Trott, Founders, Six Apart. In addition, we obtained a free DEMOFall 09 pass to give away to three of our "fans". To participate, become a fan of Ubergizmo in Facebook and read the rules on our fan page before Monday Sept 14.

Ubergizmo fans: free DEMOFall 09 pass!

We obtained a free DEMOFall 09 pass to give away to one of our "fans". DEMO is an event during which the coolest startups are going to present a new product and/or their company. Ubergizmo is a media partner of DEMOFall 09. The rules are simple, please read:

• We will choose at our discretion who gets the pass
• Ubergizmo employees, contractors and family members cannot participate
• Step1: You're a fan, right? So become an Ubergizmo fan in Facebook
• Step2: Add a comment to this entry to tell us why you should get the pass. Add a link to your Facebook profile, so that we can contact you, if you win.
• Step2 bis: One entry per person, please
• We have extended the deadline:This giveaway will close on Tuesday, Sept 15, at noon (Pacific Time).

We will cover DEMO live starting from Sept 21st, so we'll hopefully see one of you there, and if not, come to Ubergizmo to check out great new tech products and services. Good luck!

Just a quick note to tell you that we're live with Intel and Microsoft on a Windows 7 technical briefing this morning. Check this out at http://live.ubergizmo.com.