If you’re a real geek, you like to make stuff for Linux. And you’ve probably also seen the nifty Neuros OSD, a Linux-based PVR-ish device. It records TV shows, for example, and automagically compresses them for your iPod, among many, many other things it does. And Neuros is giving us one to give away to you, our readers. You’ll also get a 160GB external HD for recording the new episodes of LOST if they ever materialize. What do you have to do to win this lovely prize? We want a video up on YouTube of you telling us how thankful you are to have CrunchGear at your Thanksgiving dinner. With your family and friends around you, at a homeless shelter, at a Wendy’s, wherever you celebrate Thanksgiving, we want you to show us how thankful you are. Put the video up on YouTube, and make sure to tag it with “crunchgear”. Email us a link when it’s up to contests@crunchgear.com with the subject “Thanksgiving!”. We’ll judge the videos and pick a winner on Monday the 26th based on creativity and how many friends and relatives they include. Have fun and try to win this Linuxy goodness, which sets your video free! → Read More
Nothing as sophisticated or polished as TiVo or Windows Media Center, this Neuros OSD Linux Media Recorder has users jumping in coding functionality, which eventually gets shared all other users. Ludicrous for someone who just wants to make sure they don’t miss the Colbert Report, but open source coders, contributers, and users are all over this type of thing. There are only 200 units available, costs $229 with a $70 rebate, and you can get cash for developing new features that gets incorporated into the media recorder. Very interesting. Right now they have a $1,000 bounty on a YouTube viewer, and a $600 bounty on a Flickr browser. We wonder how much a Crunchgear browser will get you? Product Page [Think Geek via i4u] → Read More
