The winner of our trip to Las Vegas

Ah, Las Vegas, what a heart-warming place: a city in which bad behaviour (drinking, smoking, gambling, debauchery) is marketed on an industrial scale, with all the cheerful professionalism that only good old American know-how can provide.

All it needs to make it perfect is a trade show at which the entire world's gadget companies display all the cool new gizmos that they'll be unleashing upon us consumers over the next 12 months. But wait a minute -- our dream has come true -- in the form of 2006 International CES.

Crave will be going to CES to conduct our own detailed research into the future of gadgets, the functional specifications of Jack Daniels and the difference between red and black. And we're taking along one lucky civilian from the UK, courtesy of CES and CNET.com, our grand American parent.

We asked you to tell us about three gadgets that you can't live without, so we could chose the biggest gadget fiend amongst you. We're very happy to announce that James Davies of Cambridge wowed the judges with his Roomba robot vacuum cleaner, glamourous Yamaha YSP 1 virtual surround sound speaker and his category-killing Sky+ hard-drive recorder.

He's also very sensibly decided to travel to Las Vegas with his significant other, Lindsay Skane, to the disappointment of befeathered showgirls up and down the strip. James will be joining CNET.com's backstage crew from around the world, so expect to read about his experiences at CES in the New Year, where he'll provide documentary proof that not everything that happens in Vegas stays in Vegas. Nice one James, and can we borrow the vacuum cleaner next time you're in London?

Don't despair if you didn't win -- there's still a chance to win a complete digital Christmas and other goodies here.

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