Gizmodo: contests

14 Christmas Wishes Left Unspoken for Obvious Reasons

Adam Frucci — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 14:00:00 EST

There's a reason that people ask for realistic stuff like the Star Trek Blu-ray for Christmas instead of what they really want in their heart of hearts. Because their heart of hearts are fucking crazy.

What Do You Really Want for Christmas?

Adam Frucci — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 11:00:00 EST

Sure, there are the sensible, inexpensive presents you're asking for for Christmas. Then there are the fantastic, unrealistic, unreasonable things you really want. Those are what I want to see.

Send your best entries to me at contests@gizmodo.com with Xmas Wishes in the subject line. Save your files as JPGs or GIFs, and use a FirstnameLastname.jpg naming convention using whatever name you want to be credited with. Send your work to me by next Tuesday morning, and I'll pick three top winners and show off the rest of the best in our Gallery of Champions. Get to it!

40 Gadgets Changed Irrevocably By One Letter

Adam Frucci — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 14:00:00 EST

It's amazing what one letter will do. The Segway becomes the Kegway, Nikon becomes Nixon and Gatorade becomes, uh, Gatorape. I know that last one isn't gadgety, but I let it slide.

First Place — JPS

Second Place — Jeff Forde

Third Place — Harm Veenstra

Totally Screw Up Gadget Ads by Changing One Letter

Adam Frucci — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 10:40:00 EST

Here's one for all my pun-loving friends out there: let's make gadget ads that are fundamentally and irrevocably changed by adding, changing or dropping a single letter from the name of the device.

Send your best entries to me at contests@gizmodo.com with One Letter in the subject line. Save your files as JPGs or GIFs, and use a FirstnameLastname.jpg naming convention using whatever name you want to be credited with. Send your work to me by next Tuesday morning, and I'll pick three top winners and show off the rest of the best in our Gallery of Champions. Get to it!

14 Holiday Decorations You Won't See in the Neighborhood This Year

Adam Frucci — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 11:00:00 EST

I find gaudy Christmas decorations to be a bit of an eyesore. But if they were amusing rather than irritatingly earnest? Then maybe I'd be down.

Create Some Grinch-Like Christmas Decorations

Adam Frucci — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 14:43:33 EST

Call me a killjoy, but as I've gotten older the holidays have gotten less and less fun and more and more annoying. You know what I really hate? Stupid decorations everywhere. Let's spice them up.

Send your best entries to me at contests@gizmodo.com with Xmas Decorations in the subject line. Save your files as JPGs or GIFs, and use a FirstnameLastname.jpg naming convention using whatever name you want to be credited with. Send your work to me by next Tuesday morning, and I'll pick three top winners and show off the rest of the best in our Gallery of Champions. Get to it!

25 Ways Black Friday Could Be Even Worse

Adam Frucci — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 14:00:00 EST

For this week's Photoshop Contest, I asked you to envision true disasters befalling the dreaded Black Friday happening later this week. And yeah, I think it's safe to say crappy sales aren't as bad as this stuff.

Create Some Black Friday Worst Case Scenarios

Adam Frucci — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 11:00:00 EST

Next Friday is the dreaded Black Friday, the day when stores have their biggest sales and people turn into bargain-crazed animals. Bad things will happen. But worse things could happen. What's the worst thing you can envision going down?

Send your best entries to me at contests@gizmodo.com with Black Friday Disasters in the subject line. Save your files as JPGs or GIFs, and use a FirstnameLastname.jpg naming convention using whatever name you want to be credited with. Send your work to me by next Tuesday morning, and I'll pick three top winners and show off the rest of the best in our Gallery of Champions. Get to it!

56 of the Most Hilarious and Amazing Modern Warfare 2 Easter Eggs You Will Ever See

Adam Frucci — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 14:00:00 EST

Is it possible to love the results of a Photoshop Contest too much? Because oh man, these had me rolling on the floor. Seriously, you're going to want to check this gallery out.

First Place—Jim Chitwood

Second Place—Andreas Kokkinos

Third Place—Sergio Hikawa

Create Some Modern Warfare 2 Easter Eggs

Adam Frucci — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 16:40:00 EST

Hey, did you guys find the hidden house in Modern Warfare 2 that lets you unlock old-school Nintendo characters as enemies? No? Oh, I must have made that up.

Now it's your turn. What sorts of ridiculous secrets do you wish Infinity Ward put in their latest blockbuster if only they didn't take themselves and their game so goddamned seriously? Send your best entries to me at contests@gizmodo.com with Modern Warfare Easter Eggs in the subject line. Save your files as JPGs or GIFs, and use a FirstnameLastname.jpg naming convention using whatever name you want to be credited with. Send your work to me by next Tuesday morning, and I'll pick three top winners and show off the rest of the best in our Gallery of Champions. Get to it!

15 Improbable Bionic Upgrades to the Human Body

Adam Frucci — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 14:00:00 EST

For this week's Photoshop Contest, I asked you to imagine some bionic upgrades for the human body. And it's safe to say that I am not interested in having any of you perform unnecessary surgery on me. Yikes.

First Place—Doc Brown
Second Place—Shaun Legacy
Third Place— Jon McGrath

Create the Ultimate Bionic Human Upgrades

Adam Frucci — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 11:00:00 EST

In the not-too-distant future, we'll be able to upgrade our bodies with real hardware. But what exactly do you want grafted onto your body? The world is your nanomachine-powered oyster!

Send your best entries to me at contests@gizmodo.com with Bionic Upgrades in the subject line. Save your files as JPGs or GIFs, and use a FirstnameLastname.jpg naming convention using whatever name you want to be credited with. Send your work to me by next Tuesday morning, and I'll pick three top winners and show off the rest of the best in our Gallery of Champions. Get to it!

99-Cent Cardboard iPhone Case Illustrating Contest

Dan Nosowitz — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 02:20:00 EST

Case-Mate released a $0.99 cardboard iPhone case as a tongue-in-cheek, recession-appropriate gesture—and people bought them, and drew on them, and now they've got a contest to see whose creation is best.

If I'm going to be honest, I kind of expected more from this contest: There aren't many truly impressive drawings submitted as of now, and the current leader in votes is a virulent anti-Obama nutball creation that looks more like the bumper of an Alabama pick-up truck than an iPhone case. A drawing of Obama as Heath Ledger's Joker? What does that even mean? You can't be an anarchist and a socialist at the same time, they're completely conflicting ideologies. Take a political theory class, Cardboard iPhone Case Drawing Man!

Anyway, I think there are enough badass illustrators among the Giz readership that we could really bust out some impressive entries. I'd love to see what you guys can do—this contest is ripe for a Giz onslaught. Go forth, readers! [Case-Mate via CNET]

31 Views Inside the Workings of Our Gadgets

Adam Frucci — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 18:00:00 EST

For this week's Photoshop Contest, I asked you to show us how your gadgets really work. We all know there's something fishy that makes everything run, and it turns out that thing involves Chuck Norris and animals making shadow puppets.

What's Really Powering Our Gadgets?

Adam Frucci — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 13:30:06 EDT

I'm no scientist, but I don't believe that we've really got "circuits" and "microchips" powering our devices. That's just what Big Brother wants you to think! Let's break free from mind prison and see what truth lies within our gadgets.

Create your visions of what powers our day-to-day devices, and send your best entries to me at contests@gizmodo.com with Inside Gadgets in the subject line. Save your files as JPGs or GIFs, and use a FirstnameLastname.jpg naming convention using whatever name you want to be credited with. Send your work to me by next Tuesday morning, and I'll pick three top winners and show off the rest of the best in our Gallery of Champions. Get to it!

Make Windows 7 Actually Cool for Microsoft

Adam Frucci — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 14:03:49 EDT

Windows 7. It ain't cool. It seems like a great operating system and all, but the thing just isn't sexy. Let's help Microsoft out and add some coolness to their big new baby.

Send your best examples of the eternal hipness of Windows 7 to me at contests@gizmodo.com with Cool Windows in the subject line. Save your files as JPGs or GIFs, and use a FirstnameLastname.jpg naming convention using whatever name you want to be credited with. Send your work to me by next Tuesday morning, and I'll pick three top winners and show off the rest of the best in our Gallery of Champions. Get to it!

Draw Your Dream Gadget or Technology, PhotoSketch-Style

Jesus Diaz — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 12:30:00 EDT

More than half-million people were amazed by PhotoSketch, the software that can automagically produce seamless Photoshop-style montages from rough drawings. You may not have PhotoSketch yet, but I would like to see what would you feed to this infernal program.

Click here to mail your sketches. Remember to save them as JPG files with your name in the filename before next Tuesday morning. The subject line should say "Dream Gadget Sketch."

I'm trembling with a mix of horror and anticipation. Good luck to all of us. We are going to need it.

44 PlayStation 3 Ads Too Offensive For Even Sony To Use

Adam Frucci — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 14:00:00 EDT

Sony has a penchant for making questionable or offensive ads. But man, nothing they've done comes close to some of the stuff you guys came up with. You've been warned; no whining about being offended allowed.

First Place—Brian Garten

Second Place—Jairo Filho

Third Place

34 Portable Gaming Devices That Aren't So Portable

Adam Frucci — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 14:00:00 EDT

For this week's Photoshop Contest, I asked you to invent some completely unportable portable gaming devices in honor of the PSPgo. As usual, your minds are more demented than I'd even imagined.

First Place

Second Place

Third Place

Make Some Completely Unportable Portable Gaming Devices

Adam Frucci — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 13:00:00 EDT

Being able to carry around games on a PSP Go, DSi or iPhone is great. But maybe they're a bit too portable? Probably not, but let's design some really unportable portable gaming devices anyways.

Send your best entries to me at contests@gizmodo.com with Unportable Gaming in the subject line. Save your files as JPGs or GIFs, and use a FirstnameLastname.jpg naming convention using whatever name you want to be credited with. Send your work to me by next Tuesday morning, and I'll pick three top winners and show off the rest of the best in our Gallery of Champions. Get to it!