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" Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom, filmmaker Edgar Wright and BBC journalist Rory Cellan-Jones will find themselves in the unlikely position of competing for the same prize at the 2012 T3 Gadget Awards.  Consumer technology magazine T3 has today opened the voting for its annual awards, referred to as the &amp;#039;Oscars of the gadget world&amp;#039;.  The T3 awards recognise and honour the gadgets, software and personalities that have &amp;quot;intrigued, inspired and wowed the world over the past 12 months&amp;quot;. Based on a Twitter vote, the field for &amp;#039;Gadget Personality of the Year&amp;#039; includes Dotcom, Wright and Cellan-Jones, along with Gadget Show presenters Pollyanna Woodward and Jason Bradbury, and online video entrepreneur Hermione Way.  Should Dotcom prove victorious, then it is unlikely that he will be able to pick the award up in person, as he is currently in New Zealand fighting extradition to the US to face charges of mass copyright infringement on Megaupload.  Elsewhere, Samsung and ASUS lead the T3 finalists with ten nominations each, while iPhone and iPad maker Apple follows closely behind with nine.  ASUS has the most nominated gadget in the form of the critically-lauded ASUS Eee Pad Transformer Prime, which will go head to head with Apple&amp;#039;s iPhone 4S and the Samsung Galaxy S3 in the most coveted award of the evening, &amp;#039;Gadget of the Year&amp;#039;. Awards will be dolled out across 19 categories, with T3 readers and a panel of industry experts to decide which are the best devices, apps, brands and personalities.  T3 editor Luke Peters said: &amp;quot;With almost one million reader votes cast last year and the support of a hand-picked panel of tech experts, the T3 Gadget Awards truly recognise the greats in the technology world.  &amp;quot;With a fantastically varied shortlist of products and manufacturers, this year&amp;#039;s Awards look set to be one of the most hotly-contested we&amp;#039;ve ever seen.&amp;quot; Winners will be announced at the T3 Gadget Awards 2012 ceremony at Old Billingsgate in London on October 8. The finalists in full are: &amp;#039;Gadget Personality of the Year&amp;#039; (Twitter vote) Pollyanna Woodward Jason Bradbury Rory Cellan-Jones Kim Dotcom Edgar Wright Hermione Way &amp;#039;Gadget of the Year&amp;#039; Samsung Galaxy S3 Sony PS Vita Asus Eee Pad Transformer Prime Apple iPhone 4S Asus Zenbook UX31 OnLive Philips Fidelio L1 Sony NEX-7 camera LG 55LM960V Google Nexus 7 by Asus &amp;#039;Phone of the Year&amp;#039; Apple iPhone 4S HTC One X Sony Xperia S Samsung Galaxy S3 Nokia Lumia 900 Samsung Galaxy Nexus &amp;#039;Tablet of the Year&amp;#039; Apple new iPad 3 Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 10.1 Asus Eee Pad Transformer Prime Sony Tablet S Samsung Galaxy Tab 8.9 Google Nexus 7 by ASUS &amp;#039;Innovation of the Year&amp;#039; Asus PadFone Raspberry Pi OnLive Nike Fuelband Microsoft Windows 8 LG 55EM960V &amp;#039;Gaming Gadget of the Year&amp;#039; Sony PS Vita Sennheiser PC 360 G4ME OnLive Alienware X51 NVIDIA 3D Vision 2 Nintendo 3DS XL &amp;#039;Tech Brand of the Year&amp;#039; Asus Samsung Sky Apple Google Amazon &amp;#039;App of the Year&amp;#039; iPhoto for iPad Zeebox Draw Something The Guardian for iPad Spotify Sky Sports F1 for iPad &amp;#039;Retailer of the Year&amp;#039; Amazon John Lewis Apple Store eBay Harrods Orange Store &amp;#039;Computer Gadget of the Year&amp;#039; Sony PS Vita Apple new iPad 3 Amazon Kindle 4 TomTom Via Live 120 Europe Samsung Galaxy Note Sennheiser IE 80 &amp;#039;Digital Media Service of the Year&amp;#039; Spotify Premium Netflix Sky Go OnLive Pinterest Xbox Live &amp;#039;TV of the Year&amp;#039; Samsung UE55ES8000 Panasonic TX-P50VT50 Sony KDL-55HX853 Toshiba 55WL863 Philips 42PFL7666 LG 55LM960V &amp;#039;T3 Design Award&amp;#039; Nokia Lumia 900 Fujifilm X-Pro1 ASUS Eee Pad Transformer Prime Parrot Zik headphones Loewe Air Speaker Sonos SUB Wireless Subwoofer &amp;#039;Digital Camera of the Year&amp;#039; Canon G1X Panasonic GX1 Fujifilm X10 Nikon J1 Sony NEX-7 Canon EOS 650D &amp;#039;Computer of the Year&amp;#039; Alienware M14X Samsung Series 9 900X3B Asus Zenbook UX31 Dell XPS 13 Apple MacBook Air 2012 Apple MacBook Pro with Retina Display &amp;#039;Music Gadget of the Year&amp;#039; Philips Fidelio L1 Sonos B&amp;amp;amp;W P3 Pure Avanti Flow Urbanears Plattan Jawbone Big Jambox &amp;#039;Wok Gadget of the Year&amp;#039; Asus Eee Pad Transformer Prime iPhone 4S Epson PX830FWD Logitech Performance MX Mouse BlackBerry Bold 9900 Samsung Galaxy Note &amp;#039;Home Gadget of the Year&amp;#039; Tetra Shed Dyson DC39 Philips Sonicare DiamondClean Plumen Eco Bulb Magimix Le Mini Plus Nest Smart Thermostat &amp;#039;Gadget Accessory of the Year&amp;#039; Nike Fuelband Asus Transformer Prime keyboard Joby GorillaPod SLR Zoom SolarFocus Kindle 4 case Ion Audio All Star Guitar Synology DS212j (NAS drive) "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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