Fyre Festival attendees certainly suffered when they arrived in the Bahamas and found a dirty island filled with rabid dogs and no shelter in sight. And now some of those festival-goers are trying to make a little coin on Ebay with merchandise from an event that is going down as one of the most disastrous—if not the…
As many as 15,000 people sleep on Australia's streets each night, subjected to violence, harassment, and the elements. That's 15,000 too many for Tony Clark's tastes. So his charity, Swags for Homeless, hands out these ingeniously integrated tent-mattresses called the Backpack Bed.
What could possibly be better than getting stuff at Comic Con? Getting free stuff at Comic Con, of course. We braved the floor to bring you the ultimate guide to filling your swag bag for absolutely nothing.
Remember this amazing travel mug shaped like a camera lens that Canon handed out to press at the Olympics? Well, now you can pre-order one for yourself for a mere $30 CAD. Sweet! [Vistek via DoobyBrain via The Daily What]
Those press covering the Olympics sure do have a plum life. They bundle off to Vancouver for 16 days of watching ice-skaters embarrassing themselves, and ruthless Russian bobsledders showing their dark sides. Oh, and they get lens-shaped thermoses. UPDATE
There's more to playing football in college than a potential NFL contract and a sound education—there's stacks of free gear and gadgets to be had too!
Attendees can get some pretty cool swag at big conventions, but I have yet to see a product as functionally hysterical as this sperm-shaped USB drive handed out at the American Society For Reproductive Medicine's (ASRM) 2008 conference. I'll tell you what—whipping this thing out at while using your laptop at Starbucks…
Just in time for Halloween, we have our first-ever io9 hoodie swag. Every day this week, we've been bringing you cool scifi-inspired hoodies and t-shirts, created in collaboration with DiY hoodie-makers Neighborhoodies. Now, at last, designed by our own Stephanie Fox . . . we present to you the io9 hoodie! (Buy it…
Have you ever wanted to impersonate a Verizon Wireless employee? This is your chance! Some former employee is now auctioning off his sad, sordid history with the company (he actually saved up 300 different pieces of flair from his time there) to the highest bidder. There are cellphone holsters, fanny packs, flip…
Remember the video above, with our very own and beloved Addy Dugdale cursing and tearing apart Sharp's IFA 2007 sharp-as-knives gigantic swag bags? Well, I'm happy to report that Addy changed the world that day, once and forever. I witnessed the consequences of her actions at IFA 2008: This year, Sharp kept the same…
Back in the early 1980s, little Derek Powazek collected several cups from Burger King with old-school Battlestar Galactica and Return of the Jedi art on them. Now he's rescued them from destruction in his family home, and has turned them into lovely portraits of a bygone era in scifi swag. Here are a few more, below.
To celebrate the premiere of Lost Season 4 in Europe, Portugese guerrilla marketing firm Torke collaborated with Fox to drop Dharma Initiatives boxes onto the streets of Lisbon. A couple of blogs mentioned this yesterday, but nobody has revealed what's in them. What could be in it? A polar bear? Walt? (Maybe Walt.)…
You blew us away and nearly terminated our ability to process comment overload with the over 400 comments on our Terminator caption contest, underscoring the fact that io9 readers rule no matter what the current timeline is. We had a lot of great entires, including several dozen that had John and Cameron interfacing…
The two-hour season finale of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles airs tonight on Fox, starting at 8pm (so set those clocks early, folks) and we're giving away a giant chunk of swag from the show. See the photo above of John and Cameron sitting at the table? All you have to do is come up with a funny caption. You…
A Todd McFarlane/Microsoft collaboration to work on Halo 3 controllers should be a winning combo...but it's not. Sure, the Spawn creator drew up some awesome images of Master Chief, soldier-filled Warthogs, and evil Covenant aliens. Yes, Brian thinks they're good. However, plastering a glossy reprint all over a…
You know digital photo frames are getting to be a commodity when they're designed for corporations to give them away as branding tools. That's what the eNecessities photo cube is, with its 1x1-inch LCD screen and 1.5 inches of space for branding just above that display. It holds about 30 digital photos, fed into it…
Congratulation to Daniel Woolston. We received a lot of "tattoo entries" in our Vista Swag Bag Giveaway and it was obvious they were all fake, except this one that was claimed to be real and looks very real. So, Daniel, enjoy your swag and you sir have true dedication to be permanently inked with the Windows logo.…
The Windows Vista Launch Party may have been a bit of a snoozer, but at least they gave away nice Vista swag bags and now is your opportunity to win ours. We are giving away the Windows Vista Swag Bag from last night's Vista launch party.
Google is here at CES showing off all its fun stuff and searching software. But that's not all, the company is also giving away fun prizes...provided you know your Google. To get the free swag, Google has provided everyone with these circular cardboard scratch off games. Five questions about Google are on one side and…
