Neuros x Boing Boing Gadgets Prop Contest
I'm pleased to announce Boing Boing Gadgets' first contest: Make the best Halloween gadget prop, win a Neuros OSD digital set-top box and a 320GB LaCie mini NAS. I'm going to keep it simple, but there are still a couple rules:
• Create a real-life gadget prop, the more sci-fi or horror inspired the better. And it if actually works—or at least makes all the appropriate whirrs and flashes—then best. (Think a Ghostbusters ghost trap or a Wookie bowcaster. Or Spider Jerusalem's prolapse gun.) It really should be a new design, but I'll accept things you've already made if you make an honest effort to improve them for the contest.
• Send in your pictures and/or video to me (joel ATSYMBOL boingboing.net [expand BB to this site's main domain]) with the subject "Prop Contest" by midnight EST next Wednesday. Please do that subject so I can set up a filter and not miss your email. (He said threateningly.)
• I'll select the best ones and post them, let all the readers hash out their favorites, then select a winner. (Not a poll since those are too easily gamed, but I hope to find a consensus on the winner. But I'm reserving the final decision.) Friday I'll announce the winner. Then we will eat cake.
If you don't have a creative bone in your body, Neuros is also offering a 20%-off coupon for filling out a survey on their site. (You can join the mailing list or not.) That's a pretty great deal—and it's not part of our contest for me to say that!
The Neuros OSD, in case you aren't familiar, is an open PVR that lets you record from a variety of sources. Its interface and functionality can be tweaked to your heart's content. (Cory wrote lovingly about his earlier this year.)
Good luck! Have fun with it! Don't make me look like a schmuck by not entering!
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In the first paragraph, I assume you meant "win a Neuros OSD..." not "with" ?
Radioguy, thanks for clearing that up, because I thought to myself "What the hell kind of contest is this?" earlier.
I'm not a make-y kind of guy (not that I wouldn't like to be) but in the interest of schmuckification prevention and an incredibly slim chance of teh win I [i]may[/i] enter something. I honestly have little better to do.
Also, BBcode for the fail. The helpful blurb even reminded me it's html tags. I was distracted by the sexy PVR.
I totally meant "win." I even proof-read it! Argh.
It doesn't have to be anything overly intricate. Make something out of a shoe box! Blinkenlights, etc. are just icing.
For those of you who may have tried to complete the Neuros survey but got an error, we have fixed the problem. Please try again, and, so sorry about that!
Oooh, maybe I'll make something with blinkenlights that are intended for gerfingerpoken.
I think I've found a new paradigm.