Shiny Media (based in the United Kingdom), Xataka (Spain), Daily Gadget (Germany), Journal du Geek (France), and GamesBlog (Italy) asked their readers to vote for Europe's "gadget of the year".

Here's the list of winners. We're throwing in some of the Wii's other awards just to further drive the point home:

Nintendo Wii: Except for Italy, over one half of the voters from each country voted for the Wii.

• The Wii won the Game Critics Award for Best of Show and Game Critics Award for Best Hardware at E3 2006.
• Popular Science made it the Grand Award Winner in Home Entertainment on December 2006.
• Electronic Design magazine gave it the Consumer Design of the Year award in their Best Electronic Design issue.
  
• It got the Spike TV Video Games Award for breakthrough technology.
• It is one of PC World magazine's 20 Most Innovative Products of the Year.
• Gamespot gave it the Best Hardware award at their Best and Worst 2006 awards show.

Apple iPod nano: Italy voted for the iPod nano.

• All we can say is Apple's popular digital audio player has won too many other awards to mention. (It doesn't need to - the iPod is the current undisputed market leader when it comes to portable audio and video.)
  

Nokia N Series phones: These got lots of votes from Spain.

• The "N Series" or "Nseries" is popular for its variety of multimedia features. Most notable are the high-resolution screens, FM radio, 3D graphic support for games (something we very much admire), variety of music codecs, and high-resolution camera. Just look at the Nokia N73.