Name the Thing Contest – 75

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Thanks to FixTunes for providing the prize this week. FixTunes is an easy and powerful program that will fix any missing or misspelled song details, add album artwork, remove duplicates songs and organize your music.  This contest will run for one week (Feb 14 – 19, 2009) . Ending time is based on central standard time. To enter, identify the item pictured above and give an example of what can be done with it.

Please do not give the answer in the comments. 

Send an email to contest @ hackedgadgets.com with "Name the Thing Contest" as the subject, and the message body consisting of:

  • The name of the item in the above picture
  • An example of what the item pictured above can be used for

The winner will be chosen at random from all of the correct entries.

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Added February 28, 2009

The item to guess was a Dot Matrix Print Head

The winners are e11, Brad, glasheen, Mike, Eric. (There were 243 entries)

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Below is a picture of the software prize.

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21 Comments


  1. That’s rather a pity- I have no use for the prize, but I know what it is 🙂
    I’ll just wait until the next contest then!


  2. Isn’t that a watchamacallit for a thingamajig? you know, the mark 47 version with the twirling gubbins. I have no idea what it really is 😉


  3. Where do we find out the answer? I’ve entered a few of these when I knew what the object was but I can never find out if I was right or what the objects I didn’t know were! I can’t find any results from previous posts.


  4. It costs $145, oh no, that’s the other contest 🙂


  5. I’m actually very curious about this one, because I was given something that looks like this (along with other misc electronics stuff), and have no clue.


  6. Shortly after the contest is over, Alan updates the contest page with the winner, the correct answer, and number of contest entrants.


  7. But where can I find the older contests? The “related posts” section above seems to have some random ones. I see this is #75 but where are 74, 73, 72, etc? I can’t find a comprehensive list to see what the last few were.


  8. You can go to the contests section. There is a link in the top left of the page.


  10. Let me know if you have any questions about using FixTunes. For us, other programs were complicated and time consuming and required installation of a media player we were not familiar using. We built FixTunes so you can use the media player you currently have installed and still fix your music the way you would like. Email me with any questions.


  11. Yeah, but does it run on Linux? 😀


  12. I’m sorry Vintagepc we do not currently have a Linux version.


  13. After the contest is finished, can I have this one? They wear out pretty fast.


  14. Thijs, it is actually $49.50 😉
    These days you can buy a whole new ************* for that money.


  15. Perhaps if you ********* a little less pr0n, it wouldn’t wear out so fast… 😀


  18. I used one of those last night. My dog was terrified, but my girlfriend was thrilled. I actually forget the name of it though.


  20. Okay, the contest is over and I’m dying to know… WTF is that thing?


  21. It’s a “Heavy-duty printhead for the TI 880 DOT MATRIX PRINTER, Part Number: 2222738-0204 – SKU: 10PP09D30″…

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