Hasta La Gadget!

We’re getting more and more impatient waiting for Expand New York with every subsequent speaker announcement — and we’ve got five more names to lay on you right now. This November, we’ll be joined by Wikimedia’s director of mobile, Tomasz Finc, Leap Motion’s director of developer relations, Avinash Dabir, The One Laptop Per Child Association’s chairman and CEO, Rodrigo Arboleda, founder / CEO of Voltaic Systems Shayne McQuade and Michael Carroll, a professor of law at American University Washington College of Law and founding member of Creative Commons.

And, of course, we’ve already announced a number of folks who will be joining us on November 9th and 10th, including LeVar Burton, Reggie Watts, Ben Heck, Peter Molyneux, Ben Huh and speakers from companies like Google, Sony, Pebble, Adafruit and The Electronic Frontier Foundation — and we’ve still got more to come. Check out the full list below.

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Last week, we flipped the switch on our #ExpandThrowback contest from the submission phase to the voting phase, meaning the winners of our contest are in your capable hands. What is this contest about again, you ask? Simply put, we wanted to see what old technology our readers could dig up in their garages, attics, closets, glove compartments, et cetera, thus paying homage to the old as we prepare to celebrate the new at this November’s Expand NY event. One lucky winner gets an all-expense paid trip to the event and four runner-ups get a $250 gift card to update their old technology.*

What are some of the old gizmos found in the top 20? Here’s the list, complete with WikiLinks (not WikiLeaks) to fill your thirst for knowledge on tech before we could :

• 16/35MM Recorder
• 8-Track Tape
• Apple Lisa
• Atari Video Gaming System
• AT&T EO
• Blickensderfer #5
• Coleco Telstar
• Commodore VIC-20
• Datapoint 2200
• Motorola Bag Phone
• MS-DOS DIskette
• Original IBM PC
• Original Microsoft Mouse
• Polaroid Model 150
• Portico Miracle PC
• Sega Game Gear
• Studer 3/4 Tape Machine
• Teddy Ruxpin
• Timex Sinclair 1000
• Toshiba T3100

We’ll let you hop on over to the contest and vote for your favorite, and make sure to do so by September 19th. Then, on the 20th, we’ll announce the winners. You also can see the whole smattering of #ExpandThrowback submissions that didn’t make it to the final round here.

*Prizes mentioned in this article are bound by the official rules of the contest.

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We’ve received hundreds of thousands (of kilobytes) worth of submissions for our #ExpandThrowback contest and we want to thank those who valiantly opened up their closets, garages, attics, or just pivoted to the other side of their desk and snapped photos of their best in retro tech.

We’ve gathered as a team at Engadget HQ and winnowed the pickins’ down to our top 20 favorites. Now it’s time to turn the decision on who wins over to you.

Here’s how it works. Click here to jump right to our contest page on Facebook. Peek through the pics and vote for your favorite. To keep it fair, we’re only allowing one vote per Facebook account.

On September 20th, come back to see who won. What will the winners get?

• First Prize Winner: All-expenses paid passage for you plus one to Engadget Expand in New York, including airfare, hotel room, transportation and food (ARV $3,000)*
• (4) Second Prize Winners: We’ll give you a $250 gift card so you can finally ditch that StarTAC and pick up a shiny new phone (they even have touchscreens now!).

Don’t forget, if you’re not already connected to all things Expand, stay tuned to our Expand hub for the latest news. Follow us on Twitter, Facebook and Google+.

*Prizes mentioned in this article are bound by the official rules of the contest.

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On November 9th and 10th, Expand NY will bring you face to face with the future of tech — but how did we arrive at a world where we’re wearing computers on our faces? With your help, we’ll be reliving that journey. Help us find the coolest vintage tech, and you could find yourself with a trip to Expand NY on us — or a chance to let us update that old tech for you.

So, what’s hiding in the back of your closet? An Apple II? Commodore 64? A transistor radio or Motorola StarTAC? Maybe you cuddle with Teddy Ruxpin each night? Whatever the case may be, snap a pic of your most retro piece of technology and upload it to Instagram starting today. Tag us (@EngadgetExpand) and use the hashtag #ExpandThrowback in your post. Then, enter the official contest on our Engadget Expand Facebook Page, so we know where to find your photo.

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We had an amazing time at Expand SF this past March (couldn’t make it? see for yourself!), and we’re super excited about making Expand NY an even bigger and more spectacular show this November 9th and 10th. The tech luminaries you’ll be hearing from on stage are a big part of what makes the Expand experience one you won’t want to miss, so let’s start filling you in on who those folks are!

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