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Prizes Lets You Enter Community-Driven Contests For Real Money

12:20AM July 6, 2011 | Alan Henry

Prizes is a new service from Google that allows users to create or enter contests with real cash prizes. The service connects to your Facebook or Twitter account, and from there you can enter contests or create your own. More »


Geek Out

Instructables Bacon Challenge: Everybody But Your Arteries Wins

11:20PM April 18, 2011 | Brian Barrett

We post a lot of Instructables DIY projects around these parts, along with a surprising amount of bacon. So when those two forces of good deliciously co-mingle, we feel duty-bound to keep you in the loop. More »


RIM Employees Growing Moustaches For Charity And Sport

10:00AM October 28, 2010 | Brian Barrett

In Canada, they have no use for Octobeard. Instead, Ontario-based RIM is encouraging employees to cultivate moustaches along with smartphones in Movember. But to what (finely waxed) end? More »


The Year’s Best Smallest Photography

11:20PM September 8, 2010 | Kyle VanHemert

Every year, Nikon’s Small World photomicrography contest collects the very best in microscopic photography, and every year the results are strange, beautiful and pretty difficult to identify. This tiny cosmos is just soap bubbles. Soy sauce looks even crazier: More »


Only Students Will Get To Use Microsoft’s LCD Screen Keyboard

12:50AM August 14, 2010 | Kyle VanHemert

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Microsoft has built its own version of the fabled Optimus Maximus – a QWERTY keyboard set on top of an LCD screen dubbed the Adaptive Keyboard. It looks stunning, but they’re only letting students use it. More »


Software

Androids, iPhones Prepped For Battle In Army’s First-Ever App Contest

2:00AM August 6, 2010 | Katie Drummond - Wired

Unleash the iPhones of war! The US Army has announced the winners of their first-ever mobile phone app development contest. And the general behind the program says some of the applications will be in the field “within a year”. More »


Insert The PlayStation Move Wand Into The Situations It’ll Let You Simulate

4:40AM March 13, 2010 | Adam Frucci

For this week’s Photoshop Contest, I want you to take Sony’s new PlayStation Move and put it in some real contexts. It’s supposed to let you pretend to play with guns, swords and other objects, right? Let’s see it. More »


17 Modern-Day Gadgets Dragged Back To The USSR

6:00AM March 10, 2010 | Adam Frucci

For this week’s Photoshop Contest, I asked you to turn today’s user-friendly gadgets into cold, utilitarian Soviet-era relics. It’s probably for the best that these don’t actually exist. More »


53 Ways 2009′s Oscar Contenders Could Be Improved With Sci-Fi Tech

7:20AM March 4, 2010 | Adam Frucci

For this week’s Photoshop Contest, I asked you to inject some tech or sci-fi elements into this year’s crop of Oscar movies. Man, I want to see all of these so badly. Tons of amazing entries this week. More »


10 Billion Songs Sold Contest Winner Thought Steve Jobs Was A Prank Caller

12:00PM February 27, 2010 | Rosa Golijan

Louie Sulcer won Apple’s 10 Billion Songs Sold contest. He just didn’t believe that he won or that the guy calling to congratulate him was Steve Jobs himself. Guess he thinks Cupertino is full of prank callers. More »