Joshua Pearce, PhD, is a researcher at Michigan Tech who rearches open source and low-impact solutions to engineering problems. He is also the founder of the Printers For Peace contest, an effort to bring together clever 3D-printed ideas that have loftier aims. You can win one of two 3D printers if you submit the winning project. → Read More
Now that Defense Distributed is on the defensive, it’s time to think a bit harder about what 3D printing really means. To that end, Michigan Tech is sponsoring a Printers For Peace contest that is encouraging designers and engineers to make amazing stuff using a 3D printer that can change the world for the better. “Unfortunately, the only thing many people know about 3D printing is that it can be… → Read More
It’s Thanksgiving for us here in the U.S. of Gorging On Turkey and we wanted to give thanks for you, our dear audience. It’s your constant readership and semi-trollish comments that keep us waking up in the morning and keep us from going to sleep at night. To thank you, we want to give you a $100 and a $50 ThinkGeek gift card to two lucky winners. → Read More
Did you see that sweet new designer Dodocase this morning, the one with the Rex Ray art on it? No? Well click here then, and come back when you’re done. See, isn’t that cool? You probably want one now. And we want to give you one! Here’s how. → Read More
This weekend we have a jam for the ladies (and the fashion forward men.) Tumi would like to offer you this handsome $445 suitcase tagged by some guy named Crash. I didn’t dig too deeply into this one but I assume someone out there a) likes Tumi and b) likes stuff like this, so here you go. → Read More
These thick rubber things are called impactband(s). They have been proven to protect an iPhone from serious drop heights (video below). Sure they’re thick, but some people won’t mind considering a broken iPhone is very expensive to replace. These guys usually cost $25, but today is your day to try and get one for free. → Read More
Here’s a neat treat for those of you still up. Element Case is going to giveaway their new Vapor Pro case for iPhone. It doesn’t even come out until tomorrow (don’t you feel special). You can enter here by dropping a comment or retweeting this post (@crunchgear) before Thursday at 9am. Tell us why you want the case. → Read More
With the 171st comment (selected from 190 eligible comments using Random.org’s True Random Number Generator), CrunchGear reader Peter Van Loan takes home the grand prize from this weekend’s pump-action salt and pepper grinder giveaway with “i love salt! give them to me, please!!!!” That’s five total exclamation points!!!!! Vat19.com will be sending the salt and pepper grinders to Peter… → Read More
Nothing commands respect like winning $40 worth of pump-action, one-handed salt and pepper grinders. Just enter a comment on this post and we’ll pick a winner at random. Contest available to US residents only, please. Entries will be counted until 11:59 PM Eastern time Sunday night and announced Monday morning. → Read More
See the photo there? That’s just ONE of the items in the $450+ prize pack that Energizer will be giving to one of our lucky readers. The rules are simple, here’s how to win: → Read More
[Spain] BBVA, Spain’s second largest bank, is offering the chance for three startups to win up to 100,000 euros in funding. And unlike last year, its Open Talent competition is accepting international entries. The project that receives the most “community votes” will also get to travel and take part in an entrepreneur event in the US. That said, the deadline for entries is just 7 days away … → Read More
Remember a few days ago when I hinted at some exciting Tekken news? No? Well, today I can reveal what I was talking about: thanks to the fine folks at Namco Bandai (its publicists, to be exact) we now have three Tekken art books to give away. You can win one! This will be a very easy contest, believe me. → Read More
Before I reveal the winner of the HP Envy 13, let’s go over the contest one last time. We hid seven words in seven posts over the last seven days. To be entered into the contest, you had to find all seven words, paste them into an email and send it to us before midnight last night. The first word, PACKARD, was in the initial contest post. It was then followed up by AUTOMOBILES, RENDERED… → Read More
Fresh off its fancy IPO announcement, Newegg is running an equally fancy contest for American and Canadian college students. Provided you’re 18-year-old (or older) and are attending a U.S. or Canadian college or university, you could win up to $5,000 to spend on whatever the hell you want on the Web site. What do you have to do to win such riches???? → Read More
You know what? We like you. We talk at you all day about cell phones, gadgets, and awesome stuff from around the Internets, but we rarely get the chance to hear back from you. We want to fix that. That’s why we’re introducing our new running contest: Best Comment Ever. Each week, we’ll throw a prize up for grabs. One week, it might be an iTunes gift card; the next, it might be a… → Read More
If you watched in agony as the very-cool MoGo Talk Bluetooth iPhone headset was announced and given away here on CrunchGear while your BlackBerry sat idly on your desk, take heart. The BlackBerry Curve and BlackBerry Javelin versions are coming and we’re giving 50 of the Curve models away. → Read More
Just a reminder that there’s still time to win a free MoGo Talk iPhone case featuring a super cool 5-millimeter-thin Bluetooth headset built right into it. Fifty readers will be chosen at random on July 10th. You can also get 30% off of anything over $25 in the MoGo Talk store by using promo code crunchgear at checkout. → Read More
Our NZXT gaming gear contest is well underway and we’ve had a good amount of true gamers enter. Your chances of winning this gear is so much greater in this contest than our other giveaways partly because we’re actually asking you to do something this time around. Below is a small gallery of some of the entries so far, showing how easy the contest really is. Just spray the provided… → Read More
Making music is fun. Winning stuff by making music is even more fun! In one month we received more than 50 entries for the CrunchGear Remix Contest. 50 remixes – some better than others – is more than we ever expected. Let’s see which artists were the best and what prize they will receive! → Read More
We’ve got some NZXT gaming gear to giveaway, but we want to ensure that it goes to a gamer and not some chump that will flip the stuff on Ebay. So we’re actually asking you to do something this time around rather than just leaving something in the comments. It should be easy for a gamer though. All you have to do is spray a logo in a game and send us a screenshot. Prizes: Cryo S… → Read More
Greetings. This is just a friendly reminder of the contests and giveaways that we have running right now. None of these require you to photoshop anything, take a random pic, or anything that requires any effort at all. Just visit the posts for the details. That is all. Thank you for your attention. HP LX195 Windows Home Server Giveaway MoGo Talk Bluetooth headset Razer Sphex mousepad → Read More
Just a reminder that there’s still time to win a free MoGo Talk iPhone case featuring a super cool 5-millimeter-thin Bluetooth headset built right into it. Fifty readers will be chosen at random on July 10th. You can also get 30% off of anything over $25 in the MoGo Talk store by using promo code crunchgear at checkout. → Read More
We’re extending the contest deadline to the 7th of June. Participants can now get an exclusive sneak peak into Aviary’s Audio Editor. Head over to remix.w1k.com and start working on your remix online. When you’re done, upload it and wait until we select the winners. Readers can now listen and vote for uploaded mixes. The top five mixes with the most votes will get a one year subscription to Aviary… → Read More
Here’s your chance to win a Maschine from NI and other great prizes (see below). Download the tracks of the song This Town by Pandagod, remix it and send it to remix at crunchgear dot com. There are no genre limitations so we encourage you to unleash your creativity. We will judge every single entry and select the best mixes. The winner songs will be professionally mastered and featured on… → Read More
We just got back from our 3,200 mile road trip from Detroit, MI to San Francisco, CA and still have a bunch of gear to giveaway. This contest is simple: simply guess how many bathroom breaks my wife and I took along the 3,200 road trip. You should know though that my wife, and co-pilot on the trip, is five months pregnant and I had something going on with my bladder for a few days. And yes, we… → Read More
You guys read about gadgets all day, right? Some of you probably have great ideas for products you’d like to see that haven’t been invented yet. If you share those ideas with Hammacher Schlemmer you could win a minimum of $2,500 plus 20 years worth of a percentage of every product sold through the catalog. → Read More
That’s right, Major Tom: Symantec wants to blow you just shy of space on a Suborbital Flight for one some time next year. Click here to enter and don’t say we never organized anything to give to you. → Read More
I’m not suggesting we turn off old Rudolph here, but which holiday TV show or movie would you turn off at your next holiday get-together? The Charlie Brown special? That very special Christmas episode of Scrubs? Fox News? → Read More
See that pile of junk? There’s more where that came from. I want to give it to you. Why? Because I like you. How can you win it? I’m going to invent some devious contests over the next five days and give away something new and cool to the winner(s) each day. Where is all this stuff coming from? I just redid my upstairs office and found a ton of junk lying around cluttering things up. → Read More
As you recall, we were giving away some notebooks from NotebookEngraver.com and JournalEngraver.com. We asked for your worst lines of overwrought poetry and clearly we struck a nerve because we got 115 examples of some of the worst verse imaginable, plus some folks who couldn’t figure things out. Our first winner, picked at random, is Russell: → Read More
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