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!

Google co-founder Sergey Brin revealed that the two operating systems from the company, Chrome and Android, were "likely to converge over time," without offering any specific date for our reference. This is interesting news, and it would certainly bode well for developers as they won't need to make too many modifications to the coding when releasing an application for both mobile devices and computers, but does this mean the merged OS on a PC will be rather gimped since it will need to cater to the lowest common denominator, which would be a smartphone? After all, smartphones are still far behind in processing power even when compared against netbooks.

Talk about a really trippy dress - the Flare wind-sensitive electronic dress by Dutch designer Stijn Ossevoort. You get wind sensitive dandelions embroidered all over, where they will “blow” whenever wind caresses the dress, while the same effect can be coaxed out of some manual blowing on the dandelions themselves to create a pattern of lights. No idea on the power source or how much such a dress would cost - we're just waiting for a celebrity to wear something like this down a red carpet event to really bring e-fashion into the mainstream consciousness.

Cloud Engine has shown us the next-generation Pogoplug. The multimedia sharing device uses a new beautiful industrial design that allows it to expand significantly from the first model: it is now possible to connect four USB hard drives to increase the storage capacity to several Terabytes. This great for edgy consumers, but also for independent professionals and small businesses.

The software has also been improved too: Pogoplug can now automatically synchronize files from connected computers. Organizing photos and videos has been simplified as well, and the demo that we've seen was very convincing. Video support has not been forgotten, and Pogoplug 2 is smart enough to convert most video formats (except AVCHD for now) into mp4 for streaming and sharing. The front-end web interface is nice and clean. If you really want to go overboard, it is possible to install several Pogoplugs and create your own cloud.

We know that the devices are on their way right now by plane and boat, so Pogoplugs are scheduled to ship in December. The price? $129

Yesterday, I was invited by Virgin America to the opening flight San Francisco-Fort Lauderdale and I tested the free in-flight wi-fi, courtesy of Google during the Holiday season (ends January 15th, sigh). It worked very well: the login time is very fast unlike when I had to go through the payment process on Gogo Inflight Internet website, the user interface was terrible and it often returned error messages. The most impressive technology feature is the power plugs provided for every seat in economy class, Virgin America is a true 21st century airline! I was able to post articles, the Microsoft Office 2010 post was published from the sky...

Check out the photo gallery, I shot some really nice pictures of the inaugural flight event, Virgin America CEO David Cush cut the ribbon in SFO and Sir Richard Branson himself welcomed us at our arrival in Fort Lauderdale.

Google has provided more details about its upcoming Google Chrome OS. If you missed the boat, Chrome OS is a stripped-down Linux that should boot quickly and launch a browser (Chrome). From there, everything that you do is web-based. In short, it's a fancy way of launching a browser, but there's more...

Distribution and hardware: You and I can't download Chrome and install it, apparently (technically, you can still get the source and compile it - it's open). Users will have to buy a Chrome OS machine. I suppose that Google *has to* do that because their currently don't have a driver SDK, and therefore can't let 3rd party hardware vendors write drivers. This would mean that most devices would share fairly similar specifications. The competition should make them cheap to buy, but not much cheaper than today's Netbooks, which are as cheap as can be. Chrome will run on Intel and ARM processors.

The street-legal Frictionator Ford F650 is no ordinary Ford as it comes equipped with a General Electric J85 Jet Engine, making it the fastest street legal jet truck in the world - or so it is self-proclaimed in that manner, as the afterburner does invalidates that claim somewhat. Don't think a seatbelt and airbags would make me feel safe in this zipping across the ground at top speed though.

Could the rumored Apple tablet actually end up as vaporware? Word has it that the tablet will come in a choice of either LCD or OLED displays, but bad news accompanies such nuggets of information - this would most probably push the tablet's release date back until the end of next year as Apple attempts to lower the final price. Sources point towards a $2,000 price tag even then, which is just crazy expensive for a device that runs on the iPhone OS (although that might change in the future). What do you think - is the Apple tablet a viable device?

The DermaStream CST system is currently about to embark on the FDA approval process, where should it prove to be successful, we will soon have a new method of healing open wounds. This device is meant to be placed over a wound where it will provide continuous cleaning and washing away of debris and extravasated fluid round the clock. Currently awaiting FDA approval is its bio-active chemical solution. This sounds like a much more hygienic manner of keeping wounds free from infection while speeding up the healing process - at least it is way more scientific in approach compared to footballer (soccer to folks living Stateside) Robin van Persie of Arsenal who is willing to have placenta rubbed over his ankle in hope of a speedy recovery from injury.

Philips has announced their latest BiliChek bilirubin measurement system which is capable of detecting and quantifying jaundice in newborns via a non-invasive manner (which also equates to painless). How does it manage to perform such a miracle? Well, that is due to the implementation of using light to measure total serum bilirubin levels in skin though a special touching tip sensor. The LCD color display makes it easy to view even in the low-light levels of a nursery, while step-by-step instructions, graphics and a faster measurement system offers increased proficiency and productivity. Implementing a barcode scanner makes room for accurate entry and verification of nurse and patient identification information in a jiffy. As mentioned earlier, this non-invasive method is so comfortable, newborns can just continue snoozing away without feeling disturbed!

Sony is still working very hard to turn a profit. To do so, the company is betting on (stereo) 3D, among other things, to charge a premium, in a bid to increase its margins. This was largely visible during our recent trip to CEATEC in Japan: stereo 3D was everywhere, in TVs, but also in the PS3 graphics driver itself. With it, Sony can turn the PS3 (an Uber10) user interface and most games into "3D Stereo" games. So what's in it for Sony? Sell more expensive TVs, for one.

It is not surprising to see Hollywood and TV makers are pushing (stereo) "3D". While customers have sometimes been willing to pay an extra to go from 60Hz to 120HZ, I doubt that the same is true for 240Hz. Thinness is also worth only so much: when it comes down to it, customers aren't willing to pay twice the price to get half the thickness. Instead most will patiently wait until the prices fall into the 1500-2000 range.

Olive Media Inc has released this 4HD high-end music server that aims to match the 24-bit/192Khz standard used in recording studios (for reference, CDs are encoded with 16-bit values at 44.1Khz). Assuming that you have the speaker setup that matches what the Olive 4HD can output, you would hear how "music sounds as it is recorded".

The Olive 4HD comes with 2TB of storage, which is equivalent to 20,000 HD songs, or 6000 CDs. Users can move data from a PC or copy tracks from a (low-res!) CD. It costs $2000, and my question is: where do I find the HD audio content?

Asus and NVIDIA have just announced that several new models of the award-winning Asus Eee line are shipping with NVIDIA's Ion chipset (the same one used in the Macbook Pro). The new products include:

• Eee PC 1201N: Ion + dual-core CPU (Atom) netbook
• EeeTop PC EB1012: All-in-one 20" with touch screen and DVD
• EeeBox PC EB 1012: Nettop that is HD video capable
• EeeBox PC EB1501: A more powerful box with 4GB of memory and Windows 7 Home Premium
• AT3N7A-I: A mini-ITX motherboard for home theater PCs

With the upcoming Flash 10.1 (final release), Ion will be extremely potent, not only for hardware-accelerated DVD or Blu-Ray playback (it has been since day 1), but also for playing fullscreen Flash videos from sites like Hulu or YouTube, which are quickly becoming critical to a Media Center experience. This is a major design-win for NVIDIA.

Our friends from netbooknews.de have posted a lot of (official!) details about the Lenovo X100e. In short, it is going to be a 11.6" Netbook with a new industrial design and powered by an AMD Neo processor. It will weigh 3lbs and have a battery life of about 5.1 hours. This is a far cry from the ThinkPad X200, but it will cost more than half the price: this is a sub $500 Netbook. And by the way, the images (in the full post) also show that the ThinkPad X200 will have 12 hours of battery life. More in the full post.