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• Contest is open to all residents of the 50 States, the District of Columbia, and Canada (excluding Quebec), 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.
• Winners will be chosen randomly. Four winners will receive one Phosphor World Time E Ink watch.
• If you win, we choose which style you receive. Unfortunately, we’re unable to take requests. Sorry!
• 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 Monday, November 29, 2010, at 11:59PM ET. Good luck!
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Engadget giveaway: win one of four Phosphor World Time E Ink watches! originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 24 Nov 2010 17:15:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Continue reading Bacarobo ‘stupid robot’ contest is back, and it’s hilarious (video)

Bacarobo ‘stupid robot’ contest is back, and it’s hilarious (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 09 Nov 2010 14:22:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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When Microsoft announced its Adaptive Keyboard, backed by an LCD not entirely unlike the Optimus Maximus and its dynamic ways, the company said it’d be hosting a contest to see which students could come up with the best way to use the thing. Now it’s time to look at some of the results. Highlights? One app, with the press of a button, replaces your keys with the icons on your desktop. Another brings Windows Media Player playlist control to your fingertips, and a third lets coders easily navigate namespace, class, and member variables. Oh, and then there’s the app that dynamically remaps your keys to frustrate keyloggers — and users. There are lots more, all presented by some generally uncomfortable looking students over the course of the video embedded after the break. Warning: it’s 24 minutes long, so you’d best get a refill before clicking “Play.”

Continue reading Students get their hands on Microsoft’s Adaptive Keyboard, adapt it to their nefarious ways (video)

Students get their hands on Microsoft’s Adaptive Keyboard, adapt it to their nefarious ways (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 21 Oct 2010 13:44:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Nokia has made no secret of the fact that improving its long-tepid relationship with the North American market is a priority — but we’ll admit, we didn’t expect AT&T to throw its weight behind a rather massive Symbian developer contest this quickly. The concept is simple: develop and submit an app targeting the N8 by January 28 of next year; the best one (in Nokia’s eyes) gets a cool quarter million, while 17 (yes, seventeen) runners-up get $150,000, which is still a pretty gigantic number. What makes this fascinating is that although AT&T had dipped its toes in the Symbian waters a few times over the years, it currently offers nothing but the Vivaz and refurbished E71x units — and it hasn’t announced any plans to carry the N8. Considering the size and scope of this contest, Nokia’s definitely putting its money where its mouth is — it seems to understand the importance of building a healthy third-party app catalog to drive a platform’s success — and we imagine AT&T’s got some announcements of its own in the coming months. Just a hunch.

Nokia’s latest Calling All Innovators developer contest features AT&T involvement originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 23 Sep 2010 14:45:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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If you don’t have an iPad yet and you want one, and you live in New York City, you could get your wish thanks to Beneath The Earth Films’ scavenger hunt. The contest pits movie junkies in New York City against one another. Each team gets seven clues to help identify the movie, the location, and the scene in question. They then have to rush to the location the movie was filmed to re-enact the scene in front of their own camera, and get a snapshot. Teams then upload the photos to Beneath The Earth Films, show them off on Facebook, and the best series of photos will earn one lucky winner an iPad.

The scavenger hunt is designed to drum up interest in Beneath The Earth Films and its new all-online film festival, which is the result of a year-long quest for indie movies and film projects that deserve wide distribution. Registration for the contest is open to September 4, 2010. On September 4, all the participating teams will get the clues and will have until midnight, September 6, to upload their photos and complete the hunt. There’s even a prize for the fastest to finish — even if they may not be the best. If you’re a huge movie buff and you’re a native of the Big Apple, this is the contest for you.