Gizmodo: photo contest

130 Audio Setups That Will Make You Very, Very Jealous

Adam Frucci — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 14:40:00 EDT

Man, my home theater setup really sucks. At least compared to most of these that you guys submitted, which are almost universally amazing.

Seriously, what do all of you do that allows you to afford such sick equipment? Pass along some of that cheddar to me, please. In any case, on to the winners:

First Place — Ronnie Koh
Second Place — Byron Yu
Third Place — Eric Lee Klingman

Show Us Your Epic Sound System That You've Wasted Money On

Adam Frucci — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 16:08:16 EDT

For our Listening Test photo contest this week, I want to see photos of your awesome sound system, be it in your living room, car, boat, office, or anywhere else.

Take a photo of your setup and email it to me at contests@gizmodo.com with Audio Setup in the subject line. Name your file FirstnameLastname.jpg with whatever name you want used as credit. Send it in by Friday morning and I'll post the top 3 epic setups then let you ogle the rest of the best in our Gallery of Champions. Get to it!

Listening Test: It's music tech week at Gizmodo.

134 of the Most Impressive Workspaces You'll Ever See

Adam Frucci — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 14:00:00 EDT

Last week, I asked all of you OCD readers to submit pictures of your awesome, over-the-top workspaces. And man, does my desk suck compared to a lot of yours.

How much do you think all of the gear in the below gallery is worth? More than I'll ever have, that's for sure. In any case, on to the winners:

First Place — Symon Chow
Second Place — Steve Price
Third Place — Eric Denman

Prove That Not All Giz Readers Are Slobs with Photos of Your Epic Workspaces

Adam Frucci — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 13:00:00 EDT

So last week we wanted to see your disgusting desks. It was… horrifying. To get a better taste in our mouths, lets see who has the most impressive workspace.

Have multiple monitors? Multiple desks? Some sort of elaborate, Rube-Goldberg-style hot chocolate machine? I want to see it. Take a picture of your supremely impressive workspace/nerd cave and send it in to me at contests@gizmodo.com by next Tuesday morning. Use the subject line Impressive Workspace, and name your file FirstnameLastname.jpg so we know who to give credit to.

And hey, if someone from last week's contest is motivated to get their shit together and enter this one, that would be pretty amazing. Like HGTV stuff, right? Anyhow, let's see your desks!

Good Lord, You People Are All Slobs

Adam Frucci — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 15:20:00 EDT

This week, I asked you to send me in photos of your disastrous workspaces. And man, you people are much, much more disgusting than I thought. And I assumed you were pretty disgusting.

First Place — David Schaefer
Second Place — Grossi Roberta
Third Place — Dudesque

Spring Cleaning: Who Has the Messiest Desk of Them All?

Adam Frucci — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 12:22:01 EDT

It's officially spring, making it the time for spring cleaning. This week, we're doing a photo contest instead of a Photoshop contest. We want to see your disastrously messy desks.

Yes, finally you have a reason to show off your disgusting workspace rather than be ashamed of it. Simply take a picture of it and send it to me at contests@gizmodo.com. Name your file FirstnameLastname.jpg, please, so we know who to give credit to. And do me a favor and either have Gizmodo up on your computer screen or include a sign that says Gizmodo on it just so I know you didn't find it on the internet somewhere. Let's stay honest here, people.

Send in your epically messy photos to me by next Tuesday and I'll pick the most impressive as our top three winners and select the best of the rest for our Gallery of Champions.

Show Microsoft Who Else Is a PC

Adam Frucci — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 13:46:37 EDT

So you've seen Microsoft's "phase 2" ads featuring all sorts of people saying that they are PCs, not this damned dirty John Hodgman stereotype that Apple is tossing around. It's all well and good, but I'd like to see what kinds of people who claim to be PCs we have reading Gizmodo. Sounds like a photo contest to me. For this one, I want you to get a picture of yourself holding a sign that says "I'm a PC" while doing something ridiculous, preferably something that Microsoft would never, ever put into their ads.

Send the results to contests@gizmodo.com with "I'm a PC" in the subject line. Name your file FirstnameLastname.jpg so you can be properly credited for your genius, and send it in to me by next Tuesday. I'll pick the top three winners and show off the rest of the best in our Gallery of Champions. Get to it, friends!

The Most Inventive Ways to Void Your Gadget Warranties

Adam Frucci — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 14:00:00 EDT

For this week's contest, we took a little break from the Photoshopping. Instead, I asked you to submit photos of gadgets being used in ways other than originally intended. Below the jump, you'll find a bunch of photos of people getting pretty creative with their toys (and breaking some warranties along the way). Hit the jump for the top three winners and then check out the best of the rest in our Gallery of Champions. (Warning: one of the winners is relatively NSFW.)

First Place — K. Bacon
Second Place — Jared Griffiths
Third Place — Jacky Radivoy
A smaller Gallery of Champions than usual this week for some reason. Don't worry, I'll bring back your precious Photoshop for next week's contest.

Show us Some Gadget Uses the Manufacturers Never Intended

Adam Frucci — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 14:00:00 EDT

Sure, gadgets all have their uses that they were designed for, but that doesn't mean they can't serve other purposes. Once you buy something, you can do whatever the hell you want with it. Maybe you're using your old boom box to keep the tarp on your boat from flying away in the wind. Maybe you're using your old, broken iPhone as an ashtray. Perhaps your PSP is propping up a wobbly table. There are plenty of strange uses for gadgets that aren't in any instruction manual, and we want to see them.

So bust out your camera and snap a picture of your unique gadget use. Send it over to me at contests@gizmodo.com with the subject line "strange gadget uses" and the file named FirstnameLastname.jpg with the name that you want to be credited with. On Tuesday, I'll pick three top winners and post the rest of the best in the Gallery of Champions. Get to it!

30 Napkin Sketches Prove There's a Little Inventor in All of Us

Adam Frucci — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 13:00:00 EDT

Last week I asked you to send me napkin sketches of your brilliant gadget ideas. The sketches I received ranged from good ideas to bad ideas to flat-out horrible ideas. It's safe to say that no time machines or gadgets that'll make you attractive to ladies are suddenly feasible because you did a poor drawing of one on a napkin. Sorry! Hit the jump for the top three winners and check out the rest of the winners in our Gallery of Champions.

Winner — Most Delicious
Winner — Most Ambitious
Winner — Most Illegal

Show Us Your Wildest Gadget Dreams in Napkin Sketch Form

Adam Frucci — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 15:40:00 EDT

It's a classic story: someone comes up with a million dollar idea while sitting at a bar and sketches it out on a napkin to remember it. Later, they profit, and they have a cute story about where they came up with the idea. Well, now's your chance. For this week's photo contest, I'm looking for you to get creative without the aid of Photoshop. Instead, I want to see what kind of fantastical gadget napkin sketches you can come up with. What have you always wanted to see on the shelves of Best Buy? What's the craziest or most futuristic device you can imagine? Sketch it out on a napkin, take a picture or scan it in, and email it to contests@gizmodo.com with "napkin sketch" in the subject line. I'll post the best sketches in our Gallery of Champions next Tuesday. Get sketchin'!

Beauty and Drunkenness Captured with Cameraphones

Adam Frucci — Tue, 27 May 2008 12:20:00 EDT

I hope you all had a lovely Memorial Day weekend! I sure did. And now here we are, back to work the day after the long holiday weekend. A little fatter, a little more sunburned and maybe, just maybe, still a little drunk. God bless America! If you remember correctly, last week I asked people to send in cameraphone pictures of their summer adventures, both of the beautiful and funny varieties. We received both! So don't worry; while you might be stuck at a desk under harsh fluorescent lighting now, we'll help you pretend you're still outside, beer in one hand, hot dog in the other, enjoying summer as you should.

Giz Readers Love Rocking the Old Tech in Our Retro-Fantastic Gallery

Adam Frucci — Tue, 20 May 2008 14:50:00 EDT

Last week, I asked you to send me in photos of the oldest gear you still use on at least a semi-regular basis. It got a great response, and I really loved going through the entries. In the gallery below you'll find everything from 70+ year old radios to still-in-use LaserDisc and BetaMax players, clearly loved for many years by their proud owners. Clearly, not everything here is still in use (you still playing Ghostbusters II on your Tandy all that often?), but the nostalgia value alone makes a lot of these worth including. Walk with me, friends, down memory lane.

What's the Oldest Piece of Technology You Still Use Today?

Adam Frucci — Thu, 15 May 2008 11:00:00 EDT

I'm sure many of you have ancient, obsolete gadgets kicking around your home, maybe gathering dust in the back of a closet somewhere. You know, that old Mac Plus you didn't have the heart to throw away or an old cassette Walkman in the back of a junk drawer somewhere. But how many of you still use on a regular basis a gadget that the rest of the world considers to be an antique? Do you still do your taxes on an old Tandy? Will someone have to pry your Diamond Rio from your cold, dead hands? Send us a picture! We want to see your still-in-use devices from yesteryear. Send pictures to contests@gizmodo.com with the subject line of "old tech" and I'll post a gallery of the best and most amusing submissions next week.

Tag a Pic, Win a Zune or Slingbox! Less Than Two Days Left

Charlie White — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 12:10:00 EDT

You're doing a great job of posting hilarious, poignant, provocative or just plain dumb pictures to Richard Felix's SlickrFrame, an Internet-connected digital picture frame that displays any picture on the Flickr photo-sharing site tagged with the word "slickrframe." Richard's getting lots of spectacular shots in our performance art/Web 3.0 experiment, and he's giving you until 11:59:59, Wednesday, April 11th to tag your best pics for entry in his contest where he's giving away a Microsoft Zune and Slingbox AV. Follow the link below for contest rules and a huge list of prizes.

By the way, there are more than 4000 photos entered, and you can see them all here or go to Flickr and search for the tag "slickrframe". Or to see the photos as Richard does on his SlickrFrame, can download Slickr, the excellent open-source screensaver with effects and smooth zooms that shows all the pics with your chosen Flickr tags.

Upload your pictures you'd like to enter on the Flickr photo sharing site, tagged with the word "slickrframe," and you're in. Richard will be the judge, going through all the entries and picking out the 20 finalists. Then, we'll all vote for our favorite pic right here at the Giz, where the top five vote-getters will be the prizewinners.

You have until 11:59:59, Wednesday, April 11th, 2007 to tag your best Flickr pictures with "slickrframe" for them to be considered. If you already have, you're already entered!

Do not tag more than 50 of your photos without emailing Richard in advance to let him know that you are doing so. If you do, you'll be disqualified. He has to go through these pretty much by hand, and if a few people monopolize the tag, some great pictures are sure to be lost in the shuffle.

Keep tagging your best pictures with "slickrframe" as you add them to Flickr in the future. Richard plans to develop (or get someone else to develop) some SlickrFrame widgets for the Mac, Yahoo Widgets and even Vista, so everyone can get in on the fun!

For more details and a list of prizes including a Microsoft Zune and a Slingbox AV, visit Richard's Fresh Arrival site.

SlickrFrame Contest [Fresh Arrival]

Win a Zune: SlickrFrame Photo Contest Begins Today!

Charlie White — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 14:00:00 EDT

We've gotten such an overwhelming response to our request for pics to go into Richard Felix's SlickrFrame, he's decided to make a contest out of it. We're teaming up with him to give away lots of prizes to the creators of the five best photos.

C'mon, show us your best shots! Certainly you can do better than that pic above, one of the best we've gotten so far. Just kidding. Upload your pictures you'd like to enter on the Flickr photo sharing site, tagged with the word "slickrframe," and you're in.

Richard will be the judge, going through all the entries and picking out the 20 finalists. Then, we'll all vote for our favorites right here at the Giz, where the top five vote-getters will be the prizewinners. Jump for the contest rules and fabulous prizes.

You have until 11:59:59, Wednesday, April 11th, 2007 to tag your best Flickr pictures with "slickrframe" for them to be considered. If you already have, you're already entered!

For more details and a list of prizes including a Microsoft Zune and a Slingbox AV, visit Richard's Fresh Arrival site.

SlickrFrame Contest [Fresh Arrival]