iPod Shrine Winner: Robots Rule

Congrats to zZz and his motorized robot with an iPod heart, your android is the proud owner of a new Apple iPod 30GB video player—send an e-mail to let me know whether he/she wants it in black or white (to match the spooky mask). More »

iPod Shrine Contest: Vote on the Winner

The end times are near. The Apple iPod 30GB video player is ready for its new home. Which shrine does it belong in? Gizmodo's editors will make the final call, but we want to know how you would vote. The finalists are after the jump. More »

iPod Shrine of the Day: Last Respects

The pilgrimage is nearly complete. Today's shrine, a hand-made ode to Ganesha, is the last iPod Shrine of the Day. The rest of you shrine-keepers have until midnight EST tonight to enter your devotionals and win an Apple iPod 30GB video player. Tomorrow will begin the first in a series of elimination rounds that you the reader will vote on to help Gizmodo's editors determine who has the worthiest shrine of them all. More »

iPod Shrine of the Day

This is one of two Lego-based shrines entered into the Apple iPod 30GB video player contest. And the iRobot shrine with the spooky 80s face is among the worthiest thus far. More »

iPod Shrine of the Day

Several classic shrines were entered today into Gizmodo's Apple iPod shrine-building contest. As you contemplate the nature of this particular devotional, ponder these questions: More »

iPod Shrine Contest: Devotees Welcome

Gizmodo is giving away a 30GB iPod video player to the person who builds the best shrine devoted to it. We first posed the challenge last week, and since then plenty of readers sent in Photoshop fantasies like the Meccapple Store (you can see it, and then declare your fatwa on Gizmodo, after the jump). More »

Hopelessly Devoted - iPod Shrine Contest

When it comes to religious devotion to gizmos, nothing inspires fanaticism like the iPod. This spirituality has been manifest in an endless processional of cases, docks, and speakers. But to date, it has not engendered much of a homegrown, folk-artsy patronage. There are no iPod milagros in Mexico. Certainly no Apple jinjas in Japan. No iPod docks in the form of a dancing Buddha, or Arca Vigraha with Lord Ganesha holding a nano in his hand. No chickens get beheaded Voodoo-style so the blood can be dribbled across the front of an iPod as an offering to the spirits. And, as of yet, no toasted cheese sandwiches that miraculously become engraved with the Apple Logo. All that is about to change. More »