Join Stuff Gadget Awards Judging Panel and WIN!

Whether you’re a self-confessed gadget geek, or just have a hunger for the ultimate in shiny technology, Stuff magazine is looking for your help to decide this year’s Stuff Reader’s Gadget of the Year Awards 2009.

It’s that time of the year again when the team at Stuff magazine get together with the year’s best and most-loved gadgets and toys, to decide which one deserves the prestigious accolade of ‘Stuff Reader’s Gadget of the Year’, and Stuff wants YOU to do your bit, and help decide what’s the best of the best by opening up three categories for you to cast your vote.

This year’s Stuff Reader’s Gadget Awards categories and shortlists are as follows:

* Reader’s Gadget of the Year: Apple iPhone 3G S, HTC Hero, Kodak ZX1, Nokia N97, Nintendo DSi, Olympus PEN E-P1, Panasonic DMR-BS850 Blue-Ray recorder, Sony X-Series Walkman, Tonium Pacemaker 60GB
* Retailer of the Year: Argos, The Carphone Warehouse, Digitaldirect.co.uk, Firebox.com, HMV, Iwantoneofthose.co.uk, John Lewis, Micro Anvika, PC World, Play.com, Sound and Vision, Sevenoaks
* Game of the Year: Call of Duty World at War, EA Sports Active, Fallout 3, Ghostbusters the Video Game, Guitar Hero Metallica, Left 4 Dead, LittleBIGPlanet, Pro Evolution Soccer 09, Prototype.

This is your opportunity to select your favourite gadgets from the shortlist and nominate it for a Reader’s Award. By casting your vote, you could be in with a chance to win a Canon PowerShot SX1 IS digital camera.

This year’s categories will be judged on their ability to astound and inspire, their practical application and their impact on our lives and the industry.

Stuff Brand Manager, Simon Osborne-Walker, comments: “It’s a mark of how much the British public loves its gadgets that, despite the recession, Stuff has thrived and we’ve seen no lessening of interest in the latest tech. Now is the chance for people to wear their gadget allegiance on their sleeve and see their favourite tech get the recognition it deserves.”

The Stuff Gadget Awards are the Gadget Oscars of the tech industry, hosted by Stuff, the UK’s best-selling gadget magazine.

Each year Stuff celebrates some of the finest developments in technology and technical wizardry, looking at some of the best and most sought after products available.

You can cast your vote online through the newly launched, dedicated microsite; awards.stuff.tv , until 31st August 2009.

Your vote will decide the winners of these categories, and be put together with a further 11 categories additional go towards the final judging from our chair of judges from Stuff magazine’s editorial team, including: Consulting Editor Tom Dunmore, Editor Fraser Macdonald and Brand Manager Simon Osborne-Walker. The shortlisted brands will be chosen from a long list of products launched this year, many of which have been featured in the pages of Stuff magazine or on the magazine’s highly successful website stuff.tv over the past 12 months, and those successfully in the running for this year’s prestigious accolade will be announced to the public mid September 2009.

Stuff’s Gadget Awards shortlist

The categories:

· Phone of the year

· Camera of the year

· Sat-nav of the year

· Portable media player of the year

· Computer of the year

· TV/AV product of the year

· Audio product of the year

· Cool Toy of the year

· Innovation of the year

· Eco gadget of the year

· Gadget of the year

READER AWARDS – As voted for by Stuff Readers

· Retailer of the year

· Game of the year

· Readers’ gadget of the year

The winners will be announced on Thursday 1st October at an official awards ceremony at the Dorchester Hotel, London. Each of the winners will receive one of Stuff’s coveted awards trophies, and can look forward to greatly increased sales and recognition worldwide.

A full list of the award winners will appear in the November Issue of Stuff magazine, on sale October 2nd 2009. The winners will also be displayed within the Stuff Zone of the Autosport and Pistonheads show, in January 2010.

For more information visit the newly launched, dedicated Awards microsite at http://awards.stuff.tv. To see the full list of award winners from this year’s gadget awards, please pick up the November issue of Stuff magazine, on sale October 2nd 2009.

For further information please contact Alexandra Davison at Stuart Higgins Communications on 0207 096 5816 or email alex {at} stuart-higgins(.)com

Notes to Editors:

STUFF MAGAZINE

Stuff is the world’s best-selling gadget magazine with over 3million readers worldwide and a UK circulation of 84,565 (ABC Jan-Jul 2009).

Stuff is the best-selling gadget magazine in the UK, 4th biggest men’s monthly in the UK.

Stuff is the best-selling gadget magazine in the world, and the 3rd most widely published men’s magazine in the world. There are currently 28 international editions and has a readership of over 3m.

In 2008 Stuff launched its pioneering Nano version of the magazine.

Stuff.tv was launched in November 2006. The Stuff.tv podcasts and vidcasts are downloaded over half a million times each month. Stuff’s Video Podcasts, were voted ‘Best of 2007’ by Apple iTunes and watched by over 100,000 people every week.

With just over two million page impressions per month, Stuff.tv is already one of the UK’s leading tech sites and continues to grow, while also supplying content to partners including Yahoo!

HAYMARKET PUBLISHING

* With more than 100 publications in 31 languages and in almost 50 nations around the world, the Haymarket Media Group is the largest privately-owned magazine publisher, and one of the fastest growing media companies, in the UK. The principal business is centred on its consumer, business, professional and customer publications. These are complemented by digital platforms and live events, including extensive exhibitions, conferences and awards. The Group’s global expansion comes from wholly owned subsidiaries, joint ventures and extensive licensing of key magazines to other publishers. For more information see www.haymarketgroup.com.

Haymarket Consumer Media’s publications and websites range from modern and classic motoring and motor sport to classical music, consumer electronics including hi-fi and home cinema, women’s interest and football. Key titles include Stuff (http://stuff.tv), Autosport (www.autosport.com), eve (www.evemagazine.co.uk), Autocar (www.autocar.co.uk), FourFourTwo (www.fourfourtwo.co.uk), What Car? (www.whatcar.com) and What Hi-Fi? Sound and Vision (www.whathifi.com), among many others.

Nazia Ahmed

Senior Account Executive

Stuart Higgins Communications

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