Name the Thing Contest – 120

Thanks to Stanley for sponsoring the contest this week. They will be providing a Compact HID Spotlight to a lucky contest winner. This flashlight would have come in handy last year when we did some travels and visited a number of campgrounds. It usually ended up being dark when we were setting up camp and light was always an issue. We had a number of flashlights but you can never have one that is too bright.

With a 10 second warmup time and an output of 3000 lumens this $69.99 flashlight is sure to be a hit for Stanley. It can be charged from a cigarette lighter in 2 hours so there is no more dead battery problems.

This contest will run for one week (February 20, 2010 – February 26, 2010) . 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 Mar 10, 2010

The item to guess was a Voltage Regulator

The winner is Andrew C. (there were 158 entries)

I was totally impressed by the bunch of people who described sections of the circuit and how they function!

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Below is a pictures of the prize.