Name the Thing Contest – 92

Thanks to Mountain Dew for sponsoring the contest this week. They will be providing a limited edition Game Fuel t-shirt and some Game Fuel soda to the winner. Mountain Dew has just introduce Game Fuel, there are two limited-time-only flavors inspired by the video game World of Warcraft. To kick of the release of the WOW Game Fuel they have setup a site that will be giving away a prize every 15 minutes, you need to collect tokens to enter to win the prizes. Best of all they have given Hacked Gadgets a special URL that will get you 25 tokens every day! If you like WOW make sure you also download the free 14 day trial version of the game. Have fun and win lots of prizes. ๐Ÿ™‚ This contest will run for one week (June 20 – 25, 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 note that you don’t need to provide the actual make or mode..

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 July 11, 2009

The item to guess was a Router

The winner is Brandon W. (There were 117 entries)

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Below is a picture of the the prize product.

10 Comments



  1. I’m tellin’ ya, Alan, bright flashing red letters!


  2. Thats a sick shirt


  3. Hi Matt,

    Please use the email address shown to send in your guess.


  4. oops, sorry guys


  5. this one is really easy! ๐Ÿ™‚

    It has:
    One ** ** connector.
    One ** near the power supply.
    1+4 *** ports
    1+4+1 ***

    ..also the enclosing box has so *** vEry familiAR..

    tooooooo easy to guess ๐Ÿ™‚


  6. Hi Lino,

    The challenge of the contest varies from week to week. This is one of the easier ones but please don’t give hints as to what it is so that others can have the challenge of figuring it out themselves.


  7. No winner yet? Can’t leave that tshirt sittin around.

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