As part of this mad grab for computer real estate, competitions are launching to get the gadgets onto the market.

Here are some of the gadgets being entered courtesy of, http://windowsvistablog.com/

.NET Interop for Gadgets – A C# GMail Inbox Reader Example by Acoustic
How to call absolutely any .NET code from your Windows Vista Sidebar Gadget.

A Vista sidebar gadget to provide weather information by bodrick
This article will show the different capabilities of the Windows Vista sidebar, including settings, fly-outs, different states when docked and undocked, and pulling in live data feeds over the internet.

Daily Dilbert 1.0*: A Sidebar gadget for Windows Vista by Quartz…
Daily Dilbert is a simple Windows Vista sidebar gadget which delivers the daily dilbert cartoon on your desktop.
(*Note that there’s already an updated, improved version of this gadget posted.)

A Gadget for Browsing the Astronomy Picture of the Day by Michael Dunn
This article shows a Windows Vista Sidebar gadget that you can use to browse the APOD site and view previews of each day’s picture.

Windows Vista Weather SideShow by Dr.Luiji
WeatherSideShow - A SideShow application that communicates with a weather Web service.

This contest will run for the next two months so if you want to enter do it today and try to win.