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Geek extraordinaire Fred Davis shared the coolest, wackiest gadgets of 2009 at SofTech’s 5th Annual Gadget Night. Fred is Co-Founder and CTO of Grabbit, and an award-winning tech journalist, entrepreneur, and gadget enthusiast.  His past lives included stints at Ziff-Davis, Wired, and CNET.  Fred’s annual presentations to SofTech are among my favorites.  He was accompanied by his fiancé, Lisa Padilla, host of  Lisacast.com.

iPhone 3G

Joining me during last night’s introductions were Suzanne Skyvara, of Women in Consulting’s North Bay Chapter, and Harry Chapman of the Bay Area Consultants Network, as both of these organizations helped host the event.

Fred talked about cell phones (iPhone, Palm Pre, and Motorola Droid), eBook Readers (Kindle 2 and DX, and rumors of Apple’s upcoming entry into this space), netbooks, HD TVs and associated products, digital still and video cameras, and other miscellaneous gadgets.

The Duracell Instant Power Charger, at $15.99, would be a great stocking stuffer.  If you have a lot of hungry mouths to feed, ask Santa for a Chefstack Automatic Pancake Maker, which can crank out 200 pancakes per hour.  Just the thing for those 6th grade sleepovers!

Chefstack Automatic Pancake Maker

And for the tech fan who has (almost) everything, there’s also the Husqvarna Automower (a Roomba on steroids!) 

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