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Thanks to Rocky Mountain Tracking for sponsoring the contest this week. They will be providing a Smart Tracker to the winner. The Smart Tracker is a GPS device that is mounted in your vehicle and can be used to track your vehicle in real time. Great if your car gets stolen or you forget where you parked it. 🙂 You can use the NavIQ mapping software to pull up where your vehicle is on an easy to use map. Best of all unlike most of these units, this one does not have a monthly fee, you only need to pay when you want to use it. I wouldn’t mind paying $4.95 to know exactly where my car was right after it was stolen. Please note that this device can only be won by someone with a North American address. “With our Smart Tracker gps device, you may activate and/or locate the device as the need arises. After a test period the unit will remain inactive until you need to track your vehicle, activation and location can be obtained online, at any time, day or night.
This contest will run for one week (January 30, 2010 – February 5, 2010) . 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. Winner must have a North American Address. 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 Feb 6, 2009 The item to guess was a Darlington Transistor The winner is Dane K. ————————————–———- Below is a picture of the prize.
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January 30th, 2010
Oh come on , even a 10 year old could answer that one
January 30th, 2010
Red Fox.
January 30th, 2010
“Please note that this device can only be won by someone with a North American address.” ……….
January 30th, 2010
The Inside of Your Brain
January 30th, 2010
Hey Maverick,
That’s a smart 10 year old you know! You need to have worked with some electronics to know this one (or at least have to know where to look to find the answer). The difficulty of the contest will be mixed, I was shooting for a medium question here…
January 30th, 2010
Hi Kevin,
Unfortunately this device only works in North America.
For those that are outside this area please feel free to participate, I will come up with a secondary (not as valuable) prize if the first randomly selected winner is outside this area. If this happens the first randomly selected winner with a North American address will get the Smart Tracker.
January 30th, 2010
Alan I certainly knew what this was when I was 10 and used it to good effect.
Too anyone reading hacked gadjets i’d have thought this was a no brainer. 😀
January 30th, 2010
Well, I didn’t know it, haha. I mean, I could tell what it did without knowing the name for it, but I still had to do some googling. Funny thing is, I was a pretty geeky ten-year-old and I think I probably knew it back then.
As for the prize, Awesome.
January 30th, 2010
This ideal for me because when I go to the mall I’m always loosing my car. I think someone follws me to the mall and moves my car.
January 30th, 2010
Wow! I get away from checking the tech blogs for a while and the first contest I see is this! Easy one. I hope it draws more people to your blog.
January 30th, 2010
really this is getting boring.
I do not think anybody appreciates the difficulty of this contents nowadays.
January 30th, 2010
Hi Angry Visitor,
There will be a variety of contest difficulties to keep it fun for everyone. Next week will be a tough one. 🙂
January 30th, 2010
I didn’t know what it was used for, but I looked it up. I like that these contests make me look stuff up I wouldn’t normally.
January 30th, 2010
I want this machine
January 30th, 2010
A GPS Map
January 30th, 2010
black iron map
January 31st, 2010
Oh darling this is hard!
February 1st, 2010
were you here a few weeks ago angry visitor. did you miss the GE x-ray tube. If i thought i’d have a need for a GPS car tracker i’d enter, but i’d hate for this to be the one i finally win. there are not many stolen cars where i live, and mine defiantly won’t be one of them, lol.
February 1st, 2010
I learned what this one was in high school – they had a pretty unique program. It’s been 27 years and I still got it right away.
February 2nd, 2010
let me win
February 4th, 2010
When I was 10, this was a tube.
February 7th, 2010
Winner is announced.