Congratulation to Daniel D., the winner last week.
There will be two winners this week. The first prize this week will be useful to anyone who needs to do presentations. It has a laser pointer, LED light, ball point pen and extendable pointing rod. Chris Rybitski has also donated one of his cool tech keychains which he will send to the second winner. Thanks Chris!
This contest will run for this weekend only (June 30 - July 1, 2007) . Ending time is based on central standard time. To enter, identify the item pictured above and give an example of what can be done with it. Please do not give the answer in the comments.
Send an email to contest @ hackedgadgets.com with “Name the Thing Contest” as the subject, and the message body consisting of:
* The name of the item in the above picture
* An example of what the item pictured above can be used for
The winner will be chosen at random from all the correct entries.
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Added July 3, 2007
The device is a XBee or ZigBee RF Module. These modules can be used where wireless data needs to be transmitted.
The winner of the laser pointer pen is Guto A.
The winner of the keychain is Eric D.
(There were 68 entries for this contest)
Thanks to all who entered.
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Below are pictures of the prizes, more pictures on page 2.
June 30th, 2007
FIRST!!!
SCNR
This is a nice contest. If you haven’t seen this piece before it could be a little more harder than the other contests but i think most of the user from hg won’t think about it a sec to know it. (a very very X-Rated, yellow brown flying thing
Ben
June 30th, 2007
Took like ten seconds of google’ing But some key features on the surface led me right to it.
June 30th, 2007
I am impressed with your Google skills! I thought this one would be un-Googleable.
June 30th, 2007
What a nice contest.
June 30th, 2007
This is not funny… I have been googleing for an hour and a half now… NOTHING!!!!! :S
I am driving myself nuts! 
July 1st, 2007
should be this one I guess.
July 1st, 2007
I haven’t had a problem to identify this part, but i can give you a nice tip for identifying parts in the future. If you are searching a Part from the manufacturers logo (Like Integrated circuits) have a jump to the following german page www.aufzu.de or better (http://www.aufzu.de/semi/gif/stamps.html) There you’ll find some further links to a great stamp picture archive to identify your picture on the part.
Do i cheat if i say that you can find some further information for this contest if you have a closer look on this page (But not in the stamps area *G*)?
July 1st, 2007
why cant the prize be what you have to name as ive been wanting to play with some of these modules for ages now but all out of money, being a student sucks.
July 1st, 2007
Hi JessIvan,
Yes, the link you provided was correct. Please don’t leave comments with the answer in them though, just email in your guess. The link in your comment has been removed.
July 1st, 2007
Hi Ben,
That is a great resource, I never knew about it before. Thanks.
July 1st, 2007
Hi bender386,
I hadn’t thought about that before. If there is a product where the cost is feasible and easy to get I may consider that in the future.
Thanks for the suggestion.
July 4th, 2007
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July 4th, 2007
Winners announced, see post for details.
July 4th, 2007
Sorry about that Alan, I thought that is the answer field..really sorry.
July 4th, 2007
No problem Jess.
July 10th, 2007
[…] Congratulation to winner last week. The prize this week is a watch with a built in TV remote, have fun driving your friends nuts with this device. This contest will run for this weekend only (July 7 - 8, 2007) . To enter, identify the item pictured above and give an example of what can be done with it. Please note that this item is sold by one of our advertisers. Please do not give the answer in the comments. […]
July 11th, 2007
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