At 3:00 AM Sunday, we announced the winners for Opera's first ever widget competition. We received almost 30 entries and across the board almost all were excellent. Picking the best was no easy task and we want to thank the designers who coded some of the most useful, well-designed widgets we've seen.

In third place, WidgetTetra by Brian 'GreyWyvern' Huisman. This is the most addictive widget we've seen in a long time.
It looks great and is amazingly easy to use. We haven't stopped playing it yet, which is why this post is somewhat delayed.

Brian won a Vivenco wireless headset courtesy of Digital Impuls.



Our runner up, Frederic Larsen created a Multifunctional Analog clock. Now, most people - including us - probably thought: "Not another clock widget." But Frederic went above and beyond by adding useful features like an alarm, countdown and a stopwatch. So congratulations, Frederic, by making us and all the other clock-
haters eat our words.

Frederic won a Beyerdynamic headset courtesy of Digital Impuls.


You've seen the runner-ups. So you know the winning widget had to trump them all. We hoped the prize, a true high-performance gaming system from our friends at Digital Impuls, would bring out the best and so it did. When we saw the winning widget, we immediately noticed that not only was it well designed and easy to use, it was also lightning fast. That it returns search results for a variety of sites including the Uncyclopedia and Urban Dictionary, well, that's just cool. So without further ado, let us introduce the winner of Opera's Widget Competition, Audun 'skyfex' Wilhelmsen and his creation, KnowledgeMate.


Audun takes home the Grand Prize from Digital Impuls.

We'd like to thank all the widget authors for submitting a truly unbelievable set of widgets. Also thanks to our co-sponsor Digital Impuls who pulled together an incredible set of prizes. If you're ever in Oslo, you should visit their store at Mollergata 9. If you're anywhere else in the world, check them out on the Web. We'd also like to thank Vivenco, Beyerdynamic, Mushkin, Mist, Logitech and Lian Li for co-sponsoring our prizes.

And finally, for all of the widget designers who entered and didn't win...keep watching this space for
another chance to trade your code for some very cool prizes.