Winner: FlashAdapter by Kopsis Engineering

One of the original marketing campaigns for the Handspring Visor highlighted its "infinite expandability." The FlashAdapter software, developed by David Kessler, made good on that promise by giving users the ability to store applications and data on CompactFlash cards. Users could either build a CF Adapter themselves or purchase a premade CF Adapter (and later a Springboard module) from a growing list of companies. At one time it seemed as though a new company each week was making CF adapters that worked with the FlashAdapter software. Kopsis has fueled the interest by releasing steady updates to the software, including support for VFS. No other product has garnered such interest in the Visor community over this past year.

Hromadka: The FlashAdapter software made the Visor a contender in the enterprise market. Other external memory solutions have since been released, but Kopsis was there first. It seems like only yesterday that the Visor had zero external memory solutions; now there are several, and much of it is owed to the FlashAdapter software.

Honorable Mention: VisorPhone by Handspring

What else is there to say about the VisorPhone? It is a great product that ahead of its time. One day smartphones will be the norm, and the VisorPhone will be looked to as one of the first elegant solutions that made smartphones intelligent.

Last year's winner: Stowaway keyboard