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Thanks to CellPhones.org for sponsoring the contest this week. They offer a large selection of cell phones from a variety of providers, including AT&T, T-Mobile, Sprint Nextel, Verizon, Alltel, U.S. Cellular and other providers. There will be a $30 gift certificate to Spark Fun as the prize so that you can get some new hardware for your next project. This contest will run for one week (May 9 – 14, 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 June 1, 2009

The item to guess was an Reed Relay

The winner is Diego S. (There were 204 entries)

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Below is a picture of the the prize product.

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17 Comments


  1. Is it something they sell? lol


  2. I didn’t look but Spark Fun may sell it, it would be useful in some projects. If they do please don’t post it anyone. 🙂


  3. ohh, so obvious… :p


  4. Not only obvious, but easy to find the original picture… Sparkfun does sell this type of item.


  5. *** ***


  6. Jarl…
    “Please do not give the answer in the comments. ”

    Alan, maybe you should make it blink or something


  7. Wow. This is an easy one. And, I thought the comments were being moderated?
    Still thinking the credit card thing would be good.


  8. Hi Jarl,

    Please do not leave guesses in the comments area, email hem in.


  9. Hi Josh,

    I have automated moderation working which has worked great since I implemented it. There have been multiple times on every contest where it has prevented answers from showing. However it only catches words that I thought about being in the answer.


  10. wouldn’t someone be able to guess by seeing which key words are moderated.


  11. I guess that would be possible but you would have to throw a dictionary at the comment system one word at a time. 🙂


  12. Alan must be doing load testing. Easy thing + highly desirable prize = load generator. 🙂


  13. Noes!
    I knew this but forgot to enter :s


  16. Isn’t it more a reed switch since there is no electromagnet next to it?


  17. Hi Vincent,

    Good point, I was accepting both answers so that would not effect any ones chances of winning.

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