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Episode 1 - Special effects, 3D TV, Walkman vs iPod

Monday 09 March

Tedious Monday nights watching angry soap stars shouting at each other in smelly old pubs in the East End be gone! The Gadget Show is back for an eleventh series and it’s better than ever before, with more groundbreaking gadgetry, crazy tech shenanigans and a new presenter.

And what better way to get the new series off the ground than with an awesome challenge? The Special FX Spine challenge to be precise. What does that entail, you say. Well, it involves Suzi and Jason competing against each other to film, edit and screen an action sequence so impressive that Arnie, Bruce Willis and Sly Stallone would be quaking in their aging boots (if they still made action flicks, that is).

And how do they do this? Only by pitting some of the most astounding professional special-effects technology against the best consumer kit available. Including this little lot…

Panasonic HDC-SD100 Samsung VP HMX20C Red One FXhome VisionLab Studio RevoStock Alienware AE Films Rock Xtreme X780-P8400

Studio NVIDIA 3D Vision Nokia 5800 Xpress Music

With thanks to: Warfighters Hampton pool Wetsuit Shark Waterproof housing External hard drive Props Snorkel Jasons footage www.footagehouse.com <a href= “http://www.shedworx.com “target=”_blank”> www.shedworx.com www.ukipodrepairs.co.uk <a href= “http://www.stereo2go.com “target=”_blank”> www.stereo2go.com www.rawk.com <a href= “http://www.demonxtreme.com “target=”_blank”> www.demonxtreme.com www.angelmusicgroup.com www.poundland.com www.maxell.eu.com/ www.verbatim-europe.co.uk Call Of Duty SquareZero Windmill Studios Simplifydigital Sky Philips WOWvx Inition

Congratulations to Graham White from Berks who won this weeks competiton. For a full list of all winners click here

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Agatha

Agatha25 August 2009

I want to use a greenscreen at home I have looked on the FX home website and it all looks very expensive, do you recommened any simply easy software thats free or really cheap

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JANET HAWKETT23 November 2009

On one of you programmes you had a round gadget to look at the stas I am interested in buying this for my partner wher is this available pls

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