Hasta La Gadget!

For this week’s Photoshop Contest, we asked you to place Woz in your favorite TV shows. You did not disappoint. I may never see some of these shows the same way again.

First Place — Jon Schear
Second Place — David Poller
Third Place — Steven McGann

This whole global economic crisis, and its resulting massive loss of jobs got us thinking. We here at Engadget didn’t want to stand helplessly by, announcing every new round of misery without giving anything back — so we decided to take the opportunity to spread a little positivity. We’ll be handing out a new gadget every day (except for weekends) to lucky readers until we run out of stuff / companies stop sending things. Today we’ve got a Kensington SlimBlade Trackball on offer. Read the rules below (no skimming — we’re omniscient and can tell when you’ve skimmed) and get commenting! Check after the break for some photos of the prize!

Special thanks to Kensington for providing the gear!

The rules:

• Leave a comment below. Any comment will do, but if you want to share your proposal for “fixing” the world economy, that’d be sweet 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 one Kensington SlimBlade Trackball. Approximate value is $129.
• If you are chosen, you will be notified by email. Winners must respond within three days of the end of the contest. If you do not respond within that period, another winner will be chosen.
• Entries can be submitted until Tuesday, March 10th, 11:59PM ET. Good luck!
• Full rules can be found here.

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This is, without a doubt, the best Photoshop Contest we’ve ever run. We received over 300 entries for this one, and I pared it down to the 104 that really blew me away.

Because the entries were so amazing this week, I couldn’t pick just 3 winners. So, for this week only, you have six winners. Huzzah!

First Place — Frank Chezem
Second Place — Kaiser-Machead
Third Place — Jeff Fang
Fourth Place — Frank Chezem
Fifth Place — Joe Corsi
Sixth Place —Brook Boley
Thanks to everyone who entered! If your entry didn’t make it to the Gallery of Champions, don’t despair! We got a crazy amount of entries this week, so try again next week!

For this week’s Photoshop Contest, I asked you to create images depicting Bill Gates unleashing things other than mosquitoes on people. Oh Bill Gates, you so crazy!

First Place — Derek Ball
Second Place — Ernie Tedeschi
Third Place — Cobra Commander

So yes, you know the drill: the economy reeks, we’re all tired of the daily dose of bad news. Engadget’s trying to counter-attack a little bit of that hurting, so here’s the deal: we’re going to hand out a new gadget every day (except for weekends) to lucky readers until we run out of stuff / companies stop sending things. Today we’ve got a set of eight Star Wars Mimobot USB flash drives on offer — each drive is 1GB, and man are they cute! Read the rules (no skimming — we hate that!) below and get commenting!

Special thanks to Mimoco for providing the drives!

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 8 1GB Mimobot flash drives. Approximate value is $240.
• Entries can be submitted until Friday, February 6th, 11:59PM ET. Good luck!
• Full rules can be found here.

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Engadget’s recession antidote: win a set of Star Wars Mimobot USB drives! originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 06 Feb 2009 12:07:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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