Hasta La Gadget!

You know, we were going to write about how NEC is cutting 20,000 jobs, and Hitachi’s plan to possibly slash 7,000 workers — but this stuff is getting kind of depressing. After a meeting of the minds between our crack team of editors, we’ve decided there’s a better way to handle this recession: giveaways. Starting today, we’re going to be giving away one item a day for as long as we can (until we run out / the companies stop giving us stuff). That means that at least for the foreseeable future, you can expect a teensy sliver of economic relief in these trying times. We’re going to start out with some games — Skate 2 and The Lord of the Rings: Conquest for the Xbox 360. Check the rules below, and get to winning!

The rules:

• Leave a comment below. Any comment will do, but if you want to share a tale of heart wrenching economic strife, that’s good too.
• You may only enter this specific giveaway once. If you enter this giveaway more than once you’ll be automatically disqualified, etc. (Yes, we have robots that thoroughly check to ensure fairness.)
• If you enter more than once, only activate one comment. This is pretty self explanatory. Just be careful and you’ll be fine.
  
• Contest is open to anyone in the 50 States, 18 or older! Sorry, we don’t make this rule (we hate excluding anyone), so be mad at our lawyers and contest laws if you have to be mad.
• Winner will be chosen randomly. The winner will receive two Xbox 360 games. Approximate value is $120.
• Entries can be submitted until Monday, February 2nd, 11:59PM ET. Good luck!
• Full rules can be found here.

Filed under: Announcements

Engadget’s recession antidote: daily giveaways! originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 02 Feb 2009 12:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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For no other reason than we’re just in a particularly generous mood, we’re giving away Cowon‘s latest portable media player, the S9. In case you’ve been absent for the past month or so, let us remind you that this thing has been unboxed, reviewed, posted in a weekly episode of How Would You Change and even updated a time or two by Cowon itself. If you’re ready to take this gently used player into your own loving hands, here’s what you need to do. Read the full rules below, and if you’re eligible for entering, just leave a comment below with your favorite character from Sesame Street. Or really, just any comment. Good luck!

The rules:

• Leave a comment below. Any comment will do, promise!
• You may only enter this specific giveaway once. If you enter this giveaway more than once you’ll be automatically disqualified, etc. (Yes, we have robots that thoroughly check to ensure fairness.)
• If you enter more than once, only activate one comment. This is pretty self explanatory. Just be careful and you’ll be fine.
  
• Contest is open to anyone in the 50 States, 18 or older! Sorry, we don’t make this rule (we hate excluding anyone), so be mad at our lawyers and contest laws if you have to be mad.
• Winner will be chosen randomly. The winner will receive one (1) 8GB Cowon S9 portable media player. Approximate value is $199.99.
• Entries can be submitted until Monday, February 2nd, 11:59PM ET. Good luck!
• Full rules can be found here.

Filed under: Announcements, Portable Audio, Portable Video

Engadget Giveaway: win a Cowon S9 PMP! originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 26 Jan 2009 19:58:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Look, we fully understand how easy it is to forget all about last week after a hard fought weekend, so we’re just letting you know that there’s around 24 hours left to cast your name into the hat. What hat, you ask? The hat from which three winners will be chosen to take home a single bag* of CES miscellany and paraphernalia. Head on over and leave a comment!

*Pictured bag is not to scale, nor is it representative of what the winning bag will actually look like.

Filed under: Announcements, CES, Misc. Gadgets

Reminder: win a bag of CES swag! originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 25 Jan 2009 23:42:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Like free stuff? Don’t even bother with answering that one — we’ll take it that you do. If so, you owe it to yourself to head on over to Engadget HD in order to enter your name in the hat for lots of swank kit. We managed to acquire quite a few bundles of hot new Blu-ray Discs (The Dark Knight, WALL-E and Pineapple Express just to name a few), and we’re giving ’em away to our dear readers. Scoot on over for the full spill, and drop your comment while you’re there in order to consider yourself entered.

Filed under: HDTV, Home Entertainment

Engadget HD giving away CES goodies: Blu-ray Discs and more await originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 19 Jan 2009 13:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Here are the winners of the Go Miniman Go video contest, that celebrates the 30th Anniversary of the Lego minifig. Choosing was difficult, as many were simply amazing, but here are the best five.

Fifth place
Title:
Attack of the Second Amendment
Author:
Zach Macias

Fourth place
Title
The Archeologists
Author
Dobromil Nosek

Third place
Title:
The Creators
Author:
Jumpei Mitsui
Prize: A special set designed by Lego owner Kjeld Kirk Kristiansen.

Second place
Title:
Weltraffer
Authors:
Christian Denkhaus
Hendrik Denkhaus
Kilian Helmbrecht
Lukas Helmbrecht
Prize: Lego Yellow Castle

Winner
Title:
Train to Catch
Author:
David Boddy
Grand Prize: Lego Galaxy Explorer

Congratulations to the winner and the rest of the top five entries.

Special thanks to Julie Stern, the Lego company, and the judges—Lego movie directors Nathan Wells, David Pagano, Nate Burr, and Lego’s director of Marketing Communications Keith Malone.

And to all who participated, thank you very much. The creativity and time you put into this was amazing. Stay tuned for another post with the rest of the entries, 33—and the five runner ups, who also get prizes. [All the posts related to the contest]