Hong Kong is gadget mad. After all, this is a city with the world's second-highest penetration of mobile phones, where women's spending on this must-have communication and fashion item has even surpassed the money women splash on luxury handbags, according to the South China Morning Post and Harper's Bazaar Style Alert survey released this week.
Indeed, one of the main contenders for Gadget of the Year was a mobile phone, LG's slinky smooth Chocolate model. The phone features a touch-sensitive keypad, Bluetooth wireless capability, a digital music player, and a 1.3 megapixel still and video camera.
Not surprisingly for those who are regulars on the Hong Kong public transport network, where portable video game machines are often more popular than books and newspapers among the city's tech-savvy youth, Nintendo's funky DS Lite was another device nominated for the award.
Rather than going for a futuristic look, Nintendo went retro with the DS Lite, which features a double screen reminiscent of the original Donkey Kong and Super Mario Bros games from the 1980s.
The winning gadget was a gaming console, but one which stays strictly indoors - Microsoft's Xbox 360.
The software behemoth rushed into production with its next-generation console and released it on the US market on November 15, to get ahead of competitors Nintendo and Sony.