Category: Competitions & Promotions
Last chance to take the TD/Qualcomm survey and win yourself a smartphone
Last chance to enter. Survey closes tonight
Win a LG W2353V LCD monitor
Is your PC monitor looking a little jaded? Well how about an instant revamp. We have a really tasty looking LG W2353 23inch LCD monitor to give away to the first person whose name we pull out of our electronic draw.
WIN! WIN WIN!: A pair of £129 TwistJax in-ear headphones
To celebrate the end of our Headphones Week we’re giving you, loyal Tech Digest reader, the opportunity to get your hands on the best pair of headphones we’ve tested this week.
The Prize
One, and only one, set of Atomic Floyd TwistJax in-ear banging headphones.
The Question
Ready? Right here you go:
What song is played before every Newcastle United game? Name the song and artist.
If you need a clue, you’ll find it here, in Dan’s review of the fabulous TwistJax.
Email your answers here and be quick because it closes on the 19th June, remember to include your name and address so we can send them out to you if you win.
Terms and Conditions
1. The prize is 30 x 4GB Kingston Multi-Kits (one prize per person)
2. Only open to UK residents, over 18 years old.
3. One entry per person.
4. Promoter reserves right to disqualify any entrant deemed to breach T&Cs.
5. Prize subject to availability and at the discretion of Promoter.
6. Promoter reserves right to cancel/amend prize draw at any time without prior notice, or substitute prize with that of equal/greater value.
7. Prize non transferable.
8. No cash/credit alternative will be offered.
9. Taxes, insurances, travel and other expenses unless stated by the Promoter, are winner’s sole responsibility.
10. By entering the winner agrees to take part in event publicity upon request, including use of name, address, image and audio/audio visual recordings.
11. If you don’t wish to be added to the Tech Digest mailout please write DON’T SUBSCRIBE in the subject header.
Bag yourself a free iPhone 3G loaded with Bento for iPhone
Who want’s a free iPhone 3G loaded with a free application? I’m thinking 95% of you said “yes”.
Who has a mobile phone that takes video? Again, thinking a lot of yeses there with the exception of those who already own an iPhone/rock a Doro.
Now, all you need to do is turn that camera on yourself and shoot a two minute vid of why you need Bento for iPhone to help organise your life. Simples. Full deets on the comp here. Clearly marked.
WIN! WIN! WIN!: 30 Kingston 4GB microSD multi-kits to give away
I just hate those competitions with one big prize. Don’t know about you, but I never win. So, when the good people of Kingston Technology offered a whopping great memory card kit to give away, I said, “no.” Instead, we have a whole 30 of the suckers as competition prizes except just a little smaller.
The Prize
30 x 4GB Kingston Multi-Kits. Only one kit can be won per person and that kit includes:
- 4GB microSD card
- SD card adaptor
- mini-SD adaptor
- USB reader
How to win
Good question. I hadn’t actually thought that far ahead. Send your entry to our Tech Digest competitions email, I can tell you that much. And, as for the question…hmmm…tricky…ah, yes! I have it. The question is this:
The Nokia N97 is coming out very soon indeed and it looks like it’s going to have more memory potential than an other handset so far. So, exactly how much memory could the N97 possibly have at its highest as of what is commercially available today? Not as easy as it sounds, that one. So, do your research and let me know.
Get your answers over to me before the first light of day on Wednesday 3rd June and I’ll pick 30 e-mails out of the hat at random. Make sure you include your name and address, so I can send out your prize should you be chosen. Ts & Cs over leaf.
Terms and Conditions
1. The prize is 30 x 4GB Kingston Multi-Kits (one prize per person)
2. Only open to UK residents, over 18 years old.
3. One entry per person.
4. Promoter reserves right to disqualify any entrant deemed to breach T&Cs.
5. Prize subject to availability and at the discretion of Promoter.
6. Promoter reserves right to cancel/amend prize draw at any time without prior notice, or substitute prize with that of equal/greater value.
7. Prize non transferable.
8. No cash/credit alternative will be offered.
9. Taxes, insurances, travel and other expenses unless stated by the Promoter, are winner’s sole responsibility.
10. By entering the winner agrees to take part in event publicity upon request, including use of name, address, image and audio/audio visual recordings.
11. If you don’t wish to be added to the Tech Digest mailout please write DON’T SUBSCRIBE in the subject header.
Yoko Ono judges Twitter poetry competition
High-culture monolith, Yoko Ono, will begin judging the first ever Twitter poetry competition which started today.
London commuters are being encouraged to submit haiku poems about the British summertime, and those judged good enough will appear on the largest digital display at Kings Cross station and on Twitter.
Scottish poet, Jackie Kay, who will also judge the competition said: “I liked the idea of doing something that combined an old form with a very new form.
“People could do a haiku on the way to work and it’s a good way to exercise the brain. It’s like the sudoku.”
Whether the crowded commute on the tube is the most conducive environment for creativity is yet to be seen, and with a measly 128 characters to work with after the @kingsplace prefix, budding poets might find their burgeoning verse stymied.
But, getting into the spirit of things, I had a pop at one:
I recall summer,
The sun between may and july,
When I forgot how to write.
Not too shabby I think you’ll agree. Why not leave your comments as a Haiku? That’d be nice.
(via Telegraph)
Win an iPhone 3G loaded with Bento 2!!!
Hands up who wants to win an iPhone 3G? Well, the good news is that not one but two of you with your hands in the air are going to do just that because the chaps and chapesses over at FileMaker are running a competition to give away two of the Apple handsets fully loaded with the latest FileMaker app, Bento for iPhone and iPod touch. But don’t worry, everyone else, because there’s five £15 iTunes Gift Cards up for grabs too.
Bento is all about organising your business and personal life in the kind of way that I regularly fail to do on my own. You can use it to keep a track of your expenses, diet plan, digital media, vehicle maintenance, event planning or just simple stuff like to-do lists and adding more details to your iPhone contacts list.
So, to go with the theme of personal organization, FileMaker wants you to justify why it is they should send you a phone with Bento on it. Just how useless at organisation are you?
What you need to do is shoot a video of yourself telling them why you need Bento to sort your life out. No editing is required and low budget, handheld shooting is positively encouraged. The vids can’t be any longer than two mins and presumably the most desperate, creative and desperately creative will win the day. I’ll be on the judging panel along with fellow gadget blogger LJ Rich and one of the peeps from FileMaker, so all bribes are welcome but will go entirely unrewarded.
Good luck all. Oh, and if you don’t manage to haul the big one, you can always just buy the app anyway for £2.99.
Gadget Show Live Competition Winners Announced!!!
The votes have been counted, the correct entries sorted from the incorrect ones and I can reveal the 10 lucky winners of the Gadget Show Live competition for pairs of tickets to this weekend’s event.
So, without further ado, congratulations to Mohd Imree Azmi, James van den Bergh, Gavin Bond, John Thomson, Steve Hamilton, Shane Day, John Ross, Andy Cook, Sue Fraser and Melanie Clark who’ll all have tickets in the post. If you don’t get them in time, the let me know. Oh, and make sure you come and say hello.
Gadget Show Live
WIN GADGET SHOW LIVE 2009 TICKETS!!!
Right you lucky people, listen up because I’ve got 10 pairs of tickets to give away to the sold out Gadget Show Live 2009 tech extravaganza taking place at the Birmingham NEC the weekend after next – that’s 17th-19th April for those without their calendars to hand.
There’ll be all sorts of interactive treats on display including a gaming zone, Segways test track, Super Theatre featuring the Channel 5 show’s stars and the amazing How To Theatre with us, the Shiny Tech Crew.
“So, how do I bag myself these tickets hotter than the sun on a paritcularly hot day,” you’re asking yourself. Well, the answer is simple. All you have to do is answer this very simple question:
On what date does the Vodafone HTC Magic (G2) go on sale in the UK? Is it:
a) 1st May 2009
b) 1st June 2009
c) 1st July 2009
A good place to have look would for the answer would either be the front page of Tech Digest or our mobile phone section.
Send your answer along with your name and address to our competitions e-mail account before 11:59pm on Monday 13th April. I’ll chose 10 lucky winners at random and get you your tickets in time for the show. Good luck.
Terms and Conditions
1. The prize is one pair out of 10 day tickets to the Gadget Show Live 2009 17th-19th April
2. Only open to UK residents, over 18 years old.
3. One entry per person.
4. Promoter reserves right to disqualify any entrant deemed to breach T&Cs.
5. Prize subject to availability and at the discretion of Promoter.
6. Promoter reserves right to cancel/amend prize draw at any time without prior notice, or substitute prize with that of equal/greater value.
7. Prize non transferable.
8. No cash/credit alternative will be offered.
9. Taxes, insurances, travel and other expenses unless stated by the Promoter, are winner’s sole responsibility.
10. By entering the winner agrees to take part in event publicity upon request, including use of name, address, image and audio/audio visual recordings.
11. If you don’t wish to be added to the Tech Digest mailout please write DON’T SUBSCRIBE in the subject header.
Gadget Show Live 2009 – completely, utterly sold out!
Ladies, gentlemen; gadget boys and gadget gals, the Gadget Show Live 2009 is officially sold out. I have just been informed by the event organisers that there are precisely zero pairs of tickets left for both the Super Theatre and even access to the main show.
To those that have their hands clutched around a pair like Charlie Bucket and Grandpa Joe, then congratulations, for those that haven’t, well, there might just be a competition on Tech Digest very soon indeed because I happen to have a bunch burning a hole in my drawer at the moment and I prefer my drawers without holes in.
Keep ’em peeled and I’ll see you down at the NEC at the How To Theatre along with the rest of the Shiny Tech Crew from 17th-19th April. Good luck.
Gadget Show Live 2009
