With a week left to go until the Being-Digital conference in London, I can announce that the winner of the Favourite Gadget competition and the free ticket to the event is James Whatley, an active mobile geek in London.

The winner was selected completely fairly by Jack, my big fuzzy ginger cat, who stuck his head in the hat full of paper and pulled one out for me to see. (And then proceeded to eat all the papers that were left in the hat…)

Congratulations and we hope you enjoy the conference!

If you didn’t participate in the competition, thinking your boss may be hard to convince when it comes to attending events, here are a few reasons you can fling his/her way to (hopefully) show them the importance of letting you out of your shackles every so often.

My favourite video of the week, found by Paul, our office’s biggest gadget geek (yes, worse than I am!!)

What was your first phone? Do you remember what your first text message ever said?

Tell us about it in the Being-Digital competition and win the free ticket to the event!

Being-Digital is a one day Digital Mashup Conference on 10th June in London. There will be talks on some great teams by some fantastic people. We’re inviting you to join us as we have a free ticket worth £325 for the competition winner. More on the competition below…

Themes covered at Being-Digital

• Mashups
• Advertising
• Identity
• Content
• Location
• Social
• Search

Speakers include serial entrepreneur Loïc Le Meur, Alan Moore, Helen Keegan and many more, including our very own Bob Last, VP of Business Development at Taptu.

It’s also an opportunity to check out demos by a range of companies like Zyb, Fav.or.it and WebCanvas (or demo your own)

The competition

Want the ticket? Here’s what you have to do:

Remember the best gadget you’ve ever owned? Remember how much you tinkered with it, polished it and talked about it? Would you say it was unputdownable?

Create a video, a song, a photo, write a blog entry/comment or tell us through the lost art of interpretative dance about the best gadget you’ve ever owned. Use Qik video, Seesmic, Flickr or the tool of your choice, but be creative!

The most creative entry will win the free ticket to Being-Digital! You have until Wednesday, 28th May to add a comment below telling us about your favourite phone, portable computer, crackberry, mp3 player, handheld games console or any other gadget you’ve loved so much, you couldn’t bear going without it.

[Tip of the hat to the Southwest Airlines blog for reviving the term "unputdownable" - Ever so appropriate!]