contests

Cameras

Shooting Challenge: Slow Shutter Photography

9:46AM Mark Wilson | For this week’s Shooting Challenge, we’re stepping away from hamburgers and moving to methodology. Even if you’re no Picasso, we want to see what you can do with a slow shutter. More »
Games

Your Hilarious And Amazing Modern Warfare 2 Easter Eggs

6:00AM Adam Frucci | Is it possible to love the results of a Photoshop Contest too much? Because oh man, these had me rolling on the floor. Seriously, you’re going to want to check this gallery out. More »
Games

Create Some Modern Warfare 2 Easter Eggs

8:40AM Adam Frucci | Hey, did you guys find the hidden house in Modern Warfare 2 that lets you unlock old-school Nintendo characters as enemies? No? Oh, I must have made that up. More »
Random Stuff

Your (Improbable) Bionic Upgrades To The Human Body

6:00AM Adam Frucci | For this week’s Photoshop Contest, I asked you to imagine some bionic upgrades for the human body. And it’s safe to say that I am not interested in having any of you perform unnecessary surgery on me. Yikes. More »
Entertainment

Nikon’s Twitter-Inspired Digital Film Festival Will Feature Kutcher

1:27AM Dan Nosowitz | Twitter is so hot right now, you guys. It’s so hot it influences things totally unrelated to Twitter, like the Nikon Festival — a digital film fest that challenges micro-auteurs to create 140-seconds-or-less digital videos. Obviously, Ashton Kutcher is involved. More »
Robots

Create The Ultimate Bionic Human Upgrades

3:00AM Adam Frucci | In the not-too-distant future, we’ll be able to upgrade our bodies with real hardware. But what exactly do you want grafted onto your body? The world is your nanomachine-powered oyster! More »
Science

LaserMotive First To Win NASA’s $US900,000 Space Elevator Prize

11:20AM Sean Fallon | LaserMotive’s photovoltaic-powered machine became the first in the three-year history of NASA’s space elevator contest to climb a 900m-long ribbon, securing a prize of $US900,000. However, they fell short of the $US2 million grand prize. More »
Design

Cardboard iPhone Case Illustrating Contest

6:20PM Dan Nosowitz | Case-Mate released a $US0.99 cardboard iPhone case as a tongue-in-cheek, recession-appropriate gesture — and people bought them, drew on them, and now they’ve got a contest to see whose creation is best. More »
Gadgets

Your Views Inside The Workings Of Our Gadgets

10:00AM Adam Frucci | For this week’s Photoshop Contest, I asked you to show us how your gadgets really work. We all know there’s something fishy that makes everything run, and it turns out that thing involves Chuck Norris and animals making shadow puppets. More »
Random Stuff

Shooting Challenge: Fast Food

6:20AM Mark Wilson | Jason Chen’s experience with the Windows 7 burger was an inspiration to us all. For this week’s Shooting Challenge, I want to see the fast “food” that you eat — be it gorgeous or grotesque. More »