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Thanks to Mountain Dew for sponsoring the contest this week. They will be providing a limited edition Game Fuel t-shirt and some Game Fuel soda to the winner. Mountain Dew has just introduce Game Fuel, there are two limited-time-only flavors inspired by the video game World of Warcraft. To kick of the release of the WOW Game Fuel they have setup a site that will be giving away a prize every 15 minutes, you need to collect tokens to enter to win the prizes. Best of all they have given Hacked Gadgets a special URL that will get you 25 tokens every day! If you like WOW make sure you also download the free 14 day trial version of the game. Have fun and win lots of prizes. 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 winner will be chosen at random from all of the correct entries. ———————————–———- Added July 11, 2009 The item to guess was a Router The winner is Brandon W. (There were 117 entries) ————————————–———- Below is a picture of the the prize product.
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Justin Cole, Kris Williams, Chad Dickman, and Todd Sanderson of West Virginia University Institute of Technology just completed their Suzuki GT 750 Electric Motorcycle Conversion. Looks like it turned out real good. Even though the power of the motor that was removed would have been much more powerful the new 8 HP electric motor does get this thing moving at a nice speed. "Motor Briggs and Stratton Etek-R Model EMC-R 8 HP – Continous 15 HP – Peak 160 In-lb Torque The electric motor kit selected for the design was a Briggs and Stratton E-Tek R. The E-Tek R is a 48 volt electric motor. It delivers a peak horsepower of 15 HP and 8 continuous HP. Also, a Magura twist grip throttle, wire kit, and a 250 amp fuse were purchased. The cost of the motor kit was $1075 and was ordered from electricmotorsport.com.
Controller Alltrax 4834 Input: 24-48 volt Current: 300 Continous amps
Batteries 48 Volt System 4 – BB Batteries Model EB50-12 The desired specifications for the battery were as follows: Four EB50-12 batteries, manufactured by B.B. Batteries, were selected for the power source. The batteries are 12 V batteries and weigh in at 36.4 lbs each. The EB50-12 has an amp hour (Ah) rating of 50 Ah. The EB50-12 battery is lighter and smaller than a typical 12 V car battery that was originally considered. The cost for one battery was $145. The battery charger purchased for the project was a 48 V, 4 amp charger produced by Soneil. This charging system will charge fully discharged batteries in eleven hours.
Contactor White Rogers 12-4T Coil Voltage: 12 VDC Rated Voltage: 12 VDC Continuous Current: 200 amps Fault Current: 1000 amps
Throttle Magura Twist Grip 0-5k"
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Voice control is great when it works. This Voice Controlled Helicopter looks like it functions well but I guess they could have taken 10 takes at making the video where every command was recognized the first time. I can see this being the next big interface for all of the hot new toys in the coming Christmas season. Not sure it would be more fun than a Helicopter with a Shotgun mounted to it but it would be close. Via: TechEBlog and Japan Trent Shop |
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I have seen some big RC model planes before but this one is huge! I can just imagine the time and money invested into this thing. I would hate to even attempt to take it up for its first flight since I would be terrified of crashing it into a million pieces. My hat goes off to the workmanship that went into this marvelous machine.
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This DIY Electronic Meat Thermometer project will not only have you end up with a cooking thermometer in the end bit you will also learn some signal processing techniques. "To passionate chefs, cooking is an art. Knowing exactly when a cut of meat is cooked to perfection requires knowing your meat and your grill. But with a little bit of technology, we can build a digital meat thermometer, and use digital signal processing techniques to get a much faster response. This video explains how we can use the predictably slow heat transfer inside the temperature probe to mathematically model the sensor, and ultimately get a much faster response, with a little bit microcontroller computing power!" 
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You may remember the Hexapod Robot that Matt Denton built. I think this new Chiara Robot could give Matt a run for his money as far as features and power. Chiara was developed at Carnegie Mellon University’s Tekkotsu lab, best of all it will be manufactured and sold by RoPro Design, Inc. David Touretzky, Gaku Sato, Ethan Tira-Thompson, and David Rice have done a great job on this system. I can’t wait till it gets released to see what its full potential is! "Chiara Features:
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The guys over at Geeky Gadgets made a cool looking Apple iPhone Dock from some Old CDs, you might remember the pencil stand that they made before. This is a great project since you probably have all of the materials at hand and you don’t need much in the way of tools. What would make it cooler is if the top CD had an apple logo burnt on it using a light scribe disk. "To make your own you will need a Dremel, 11 to 12 CDs or DVDs, you will need 4/5 more disks than the height of your iPhone charging connector on the USB cable."
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This contest will run for one week (June 20 – 25, 2009) . 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 note that you don’t need to provide the actual make or mode..
