Contests

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

Name the Thing Contest - 119

Thanks to Screwpop for sponsoring the contest this week. They will be providing 8 of their cool Screwpop Tools to some lucky winners (2 winners will each get 4 tools). They sent me a few to try out and they work quite well, it isn’t going to replace my conventional screw drivers but it does a good job when all you need to do is tighten a screw a bit.

Name the Thing Contest - 118

As promised the contest this week will be a bit harder. 🙂 Also the previous winners of all outstanding contests including the Happy Holidays 2009 Contest will be determined and posted today. The prize this week is one of those popular micro helicopters. It uses IR from the controller to send control data to the small chopper. It’s sure to provide tons of cat tormenting fun. You don’t need to

Name the Thing Contest - 117

Thanks to Rocky Mountain Tracking for sponsoring the contest this week. They will be providing a Smart Tracker to the winner. The Smart Tracker is a GPS device that is mounted in your vehicle and can be used to track your vehicle in real time. Great if your car gets stolen or you forget where you parked it. 🙂 You can use the NavIQ mapping software to pull up where

Name the Thing Contest - 116

Thanks to X-mi for sponsoring the contest this week. They will be providing a X-mini MAX II Capsule Speaker (PDF) to the winner. Have a closer look at the speaker by going here and clicking on the X-mini MAX II at the top. If you are looking for music on the go these should work just great for you. “Technical Specifications MODEL: X-mini MAX II Dimension (L×W×H): 65.8mm×53.4 mm (closed

Name the Thing Contest - 115

Thanks to Ponoko for sponsoring the contest this week. They are providing a $50 gift voucher to a lucky winner to allow you to spread your creative wings and have your own design built. Here are some details about how the process works. When you are done creating your master piece you can make some cash by selling it to the masses from your own Ponoko Showroom. Only catch with

Name the Thing Contest - 114

Thanks to Digiarty Software, Inc for sponsoring the contest this week. They are providing 10 copies of WinX DVD Ripper Platinum, that is $299.50 worth of software spread out amongst 10 lucky winners. Nice thing about this software is you can make backups of all your DVDs so that your originals can be kept safe and you can just watch copies. “WinX DVD Ripper Platinum can rip the content of