Summer vacation is almost over and that means students will soon be heading back to school. What better way to celebrate (or make it less painful) than to give away a bunch of gadgets and gear! We have a variety of products for students and non-students alike. There’s something for everyone. Full contest details after the break.
Prizes:
1 lucky winner will win 1 each of the following prizes – 7 prizes in total:
OGIO: Newt Backpack
Backpacks designed for the student, young professional, and everyone in between. Engineered with high quality, durable fabrics, water resistant coating, hypalon, nylon webbing and custom hardware. Main compartments designed with padded section lined with plush quilted fleece. Fitted with integrated foam panels to keep your electronics protected and five bar padded back panel for comfort. Shoulder straps are fully adjustable, include a sternum strap, and a mesh pocket.
Toddy Gear: Toddy Wedge
Hand-crafted stylish and essential companion for your electronics both cleans and holds your mobile device. Multi-faceted design cleans touch screen devices while propping them up on your desk or at home. Bottom exterior crafted with plush microfiber material to offer scratch-free cleaning without the need of harmful fluids. Exterior engineered with microfiber silk that leaves your surfaces with that “out of package” look. Features AEGIS Microbe Shield® technology to protect against microorganisms that contribute to mold and mildew. Can also be used with sunglasses, computers, TV’s and more.
Satechi: Smart LED Desk Lamp
Sleek, energy efficient lamp brightens rooms and charges USB devices. Features four different brightness levels – reading mode, study mode, relaxation mode & bedtime mode. USB port efficiently charges smartphones and MP3 players. Lifespan of 40,000+ hours. Consumes only 1/8 the power of an incandescent lamp and half the power of a florescent lamp. Timer function automatically turns off the lamp to avoid unnecessary energy consumption. Made of 3 adjustable joints to adjust LED panel up to 140 degrees and the frame up to 90 degrees. Clean, glossy and sleek aesthetic matches décor in any home or office.
Satechi: SATEC – 10-Port USB 3
Compact hub for Mac or PC connects multiple USB-based devices in one versatile, clutter-free solution. Compatible with a wide array of devices including digital cameras, printers, external hard drives, keyboards, flash drives, smartphones and tablets. Sleek piano black, linear design allows for easy cable management and takes up little desk space for a clutter-free home or office environment. Features 9 USB 3.0 ports and one 2.1A charging port on the side of the hub powerful enough to charge both Android and iOS tablets. USB ports are divided in sets of 3, each with an on/off switch and blue status indicator lights to maximize efficiency. 2.1A charging port has on/off switch to distribute additional power to other ports when not in use. Equipped with its own power supply to guarantee electric current stability and effective operation of all connected devices.
New Trent: iTorch
Compact 5,200mAh portable battery pack keeps smartphones juiced while on the go. Lightweight and portable battery pack fits easily into any purse or backpack. Packs enough battery to keep smartphones juiced for an entire day of talking, texting and browsing the internet. Features an LED flashlight and laser pointer.
Wicked Audio: Mojo
Chic earbuds incorporate fashionable colors from bud to cord. Earbuds deliver enhanced bass for an impressive music listening experience. Unique design boasts bright color not only on the earbuds but throughout the cord too. Packaged with 3 cushion options, for a unique fit for everyone. Also available with vocal cord built-in, providing the capability to answer calls.
Coloud Headphones: Boom
Sturdy and stylish headphones available in color blocked and solid colors. Closed construction headphone keeps the outside noise out. Sturdy frame crafted to withstand pressures of everyday listening. Flat cable can be wrapped around the patent-pending Zound Lasso and secured firmly with the pliable angled plug for tangle free solution. 3.5mm jack and remote & mic compatible with most smartphones and MP3 players.
How to enter (please read carefully – any missed steps and your entry will be disqualified):
1. Between now and 07/18/2013 11:59PM EST leave a comment with your favorite quote.
2. At some point on 07/19/2013, I’ll pick 1 random winner using random.org. The winner will be contacted by email and will have 48 hrs to claim their prizes. If I do not receive an answer to my emails in that time period, I’ll do other random.org drawings till the prizes are gone.
Rules:
1. Only one entry per person (warning: I check IP addresses).
2. Gadgeteer writers, family members and close friends may not enter this contest.
3. the-gadgeteer.com is not responsible for any lost packages or incorrect shipping addresses.
4. Winner must have a US shipping address.
Update:
The winner is #151 James Marcelino.
Congrats to James and thank you to everyone who entered and the sponsors!
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“Do. Or do not. There is no try”. – Yoda
“Be kind, for everyone you meet carries a great burden”. -Philo
“Barrowman!” – David Tennant
Well-behaved women seldom make history – Laura Thatcher Ulrich
“All who wander are not lost”. – Bilbo
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Never let a lack of knowledge get in your way.
Work smarter not harder.
-Scrooge McDuck
Those who can – do, those who can’t – teach.
“If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice.” – Rush
Perfect is the enemy of good
“Stay hungry. Stay foolish.”
“But sir, what if there IS a fire?”
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Dream Big! Jim Perry(my dad)
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How can you be two places at once, when you’re not anywhere at all? Firesign Theater
“Be the change you wish to see in the world.” – often attributed to Gandhi
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it is the only thing that has. -Margaret Mead
“This must be Thursday. I never could get the hang of Thursdays.” – Arthur Dent – The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
“It has been said, ‘time heals all wounds.’ I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens. But it is never gone.”
-Rose Kennedy
All organizations are perfectly aligned to get the results they get. – Arthur W. Jones
We are only immortal for a limited time.
– Neil Peart (Rush)
“Honesty is the best policy.” – Benjamin Franklin
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. – Santayana
“The Wheel weaves as the Wheel wills, and we are only the thread of the Pattern.” —Moiraine Damodred
Insanity is doing the same thing over and over hoping for a different outcome.
Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion for you must first set yourself on fire.
Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
– Scott Adams
“You can’t handle the truth! Son, we live in a world that has walls, and those walls have to be guarded by men with guns. Who’s gonna do it? You? You, Lieutenant Weinberg? I have a greater responsibility than you can possibly fathom. You weep for Santiago and you curse the Marines. You have that luxury. You have the luxury of not knowing what I know, that Santiago’s death, while tragic, probably saved lives. And my existence, while grotesque and incomprehensible to you, saves lives! You don’t want the truth, because deep down in places you don’t talk about at parties, you want me on that wall. You need me on that wall. We use words like “honor”, “code”, “loyalty”. We use these words as the backbone of a life spent defending something. You use them as a punchline. I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the blanket of the very freedom that I provide, and then questions the manner in which I provide it! I would rather you just said “thank you”, and went on your way. Otherwise, I suggest you pick up a weapon, and stand a post. Either way, I don’t give a damn what you think you are entitled to!”
” I feel the need…. the need for speed” – Maverick and Goose.
Don’t cry because its over, smile because it happened.
~Dr. Seuss
“Able was I ere I saw Elba”
“Anticipation of death is worse than death itself.”
His philosophy was a mixture of three famous schools — the Cynics, the Stoics and the Epicureans — and summed up all three of them in his famous phrase, “You can’t trust any bugger further than you can throw him, and there’s nothing you can do about it, so let’s have a drink.”
— We meet Dydactylos the philosopher (Terry Pratchett, Small Gods)
“Civilize the mind but make savage the body” – Chairman Mao
“That’s me, cause I’m committing crimes with both direction and magnitude! Oh yeah!” – Vector
Courage is being scared to death and saddling up anyway. — John Wayne
“Amuse yourself. Don’t think it’s childish, whatever you do.” – Ira Glass
“Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.”
-Salvador Dali
“Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons.”
-Popular Mechanics, 1949
Imagination is more important than knowledge -Einstein
“Life is tough, it’s tougher if you’re stupid.”
“There is always time for you to try a new path in life.” – Panda Express
“You only have to get up one more time than you fall.” JR
“Badges? WE don’t need no stinkin’ badges!”
If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn’t thinking.
George S. Patton
“You don’t have to be good, you have to be there”.
Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for- in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes and the car, and the house you leave vacant to live in it. Ellen Goodman.
“I’ll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours” Bob Dylan said that.
“Khaaaan!!!”
“Better to be born lucky than rich” — I hope I’m lucky!
“Boredom comes from within yourself, not your surroundings or environment. The active mind always can find something to put itself around.” – The Dukeman
You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view–until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.
– Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
You’re never too old to become younger — Mae West
“Build a man a fire, and he’ll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he’ll be warm for the rest of his life.”
Terry Pratchett
“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt So true! What other people say about you only means something if you give it meaning 🙂 I also like to tell my kids “They don’t pay your bills, so why do you care what they think or say?” 🙂
“Trouble rather the tiger in his lair than the sage among his books. For to you kingdoms and their armies are things mighty and enduring, but to him they are but toys of the moment, to be overturned with the flick of a finger.
(attributed to Dickson in Lucifer’s Hammer, by Pournelle and Niven)”
“Out of rum. Why? Why are we out of rum?”
a smooth sea never made a skilled sailor
My first time here.
Love is as much of an object as an obsession, everybody wants it, everybody seeks it, but few ever achieve it, those who do will cherish it, be lost in it, and among all, never… never forget it.
~ Curtis Judalet
…you may say I’m a dreamer, but I am not the only one – John Lennon
Seeing is believing.
“A slacker revolves around the sun just as quickly as a productive person.”
I love that quote. Its just fun.
“Respond intelligently even to unintelligent treatment”
Lao Tzu
“You’re young, have some fun; go live your life. Just remember, don’t make a hoe a housewife.” – Deez Nuts
“Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.” – John F. Kennedy
Continue to do good work.
“I reject your reality and substitute my own.” -Adam Savage
If it bleeds, we can kill it.
“To be the man, you’ve got to beat the man, and mister I’m the man!” – Ric Flair
Paul Moore: It must be nice to always believe you know better, to always think you’re the smartest person in the room.
Jane Craig: No. It’s awful.
Broadcast News (movie)
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
Benjamin Franklin
It’s a magical world, Hobbes, ol’ buddy… Let’s go exploring! – Bill Watterson ala Calvin and Hobbes
Vincent: You want to know how I did it? This is how I did it, Anton: I never saved anything for the swim back.
-Gattaca
“How dare you waste my time with anything less than your best effort?” Taylor Mali, teacher/poet, from “What Teachers Make?
All work and no play makes Homer something, something…
“You must be the change you wish to see in the world.” – Gandhi
It is not about how much we give, but how much love we put into giving. Mother Teresa
Keep the river open and flowing between your eyes and your heart when seeing {Alaska’s} wilderness. Quote from Native Alaskan.
Do what you fear most and you control fear
“I hope I die before I get old” – The Who
Everyone is self-centered; it’s the radius that matters.
“Get busy living, or get busy dying.”
– Stephen King
“I won what?!?!?!” – me, right after I win.
“When I do good, I feel good, and that is my religion” -Abe Lincoln
do not pray for an easy life pray for the strength to endure a difficult one – Bruce Lee
And the LORD opened the mouth of the donkey….
“You don’t fall in love with someone who makes you want to crap your pants!” – Paris Geller, Gilmore Girls
every time you are able to find some humor in a difficult situation you win
It’s not that I’m lazy, it’s that I just don’t care. – Peter Gibbons “Office Space”
Brian: You have to be different!
The Crowd: Yes, we are all different!
Small lonely voice: I’m not!
Ray, when someone asks you if you’re a god, you say “YES”!
Nake nula wauŋ welo!
Translated:
I am ready for whatever comes.
Crazy Horse
“The cream rises to the top. So does the scum”
— Wellington’s Law of Command
“The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.” —WILLIAM JAMES
“No campaign plan survives first contact with the enemy.”
Prussian general Carl Von Clauswitz
“Where is the brig, I want to see the real Marines.” – Chesty Puller
There are 10 kinds of people. Those who know binary and those who don’t.
Maybe we’re meant to lose the ones we love but I’ll fight for you till then -PierceTheVeil
The teleport mishap in ‘The Fly’ was really just a requirements error. – “Coach” Jim Tomayko
“With school turning out more runners, jumpers, racers, tinkerers, grabbers, snatchers, fliers, and swimmers instead of examiners, critics, knowers, and imaginative creators, the word ‘intellectual,’ of course, became the swear word it deserved to be.”
Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
It is what it is!
“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Remember; no matter where you go, there you are.” Buckaroo Banzai
“I’m a leaf on the wind. Watch how I soar.” – Wash, Serenity
“I’d like to find your inner child and kick its little ass.” – The Eagles
“I was thinking of the immortal words of Socrates, when he said, “I drank what?”- Chis Knight, Real Genius.
“There is no contradiction between a soft heart and a hard head.”
“Those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.” — Bernard Baruch
The glass isn’t half full…it’s just double the size it should be!
We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it–and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again–and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore. -Mark Twain
Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure… than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
Theodore Roosevelt
Am I to old to go back to school?
Losers wait! — Wez, The Road Warrior
u can lead a horse 2 water,but u can’t make him mow ur lawn!
“The possibilities are endless.”
Make it so. — Jean Luc Picard
“All bleeding eventually stops…”
–The First Rule of Emergency Medicine
You want the truth? You can’t handle the truth.
Tact is the device behind which a coward hides the truth.
“Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit, wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.”
Miles Kington
I would be a great procrastinator if I didn’t keep putting it off.
L. Geisz…
“Eat a live frog first thing in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day.”
— Mark Twain
“There are 5 things in the world I hate; Lists & Math”
Nothing is foolproof to a sufficiently capable fool.
He lifted his face once more to the unknown stars, the way a man lifts his face from the still heat of the valley to the coolness of the hills, in the early part of the long workday when the evening’s freedom is yet far off. -Gordon R Dickson
For every minute you are angry, you lose sixty seconds of happiness. ~Author Unknown
Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.
— Calvin, Calvin and Hobbes
“If you are going through hell, keep going” – Winston Churchill
In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.
Robert Frost
easy come/ easy go
“It never gets easier, you just go faster.” -Greg LeMond
“Muôn sự tại nhân, thành sự tại Thiên”
Old Vietnamese proverb … translating to:
“Man wishes for many things, receives only what God decides”
“I reject your reality, and substitute my own!”
-Adam Savage
You’re going to need a bigger boat.
“A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.”
by Lao-tzu
Since this contest is about returning to school: I never let my schooling interfere with my education. Mark Twain
“Choices have consequences.” John Craft
“Fredo, you’re my older brother, and I love you. But don’t ever take sides with anyone against the Family again. Ever.”
This too shall pass.
“Vell, Zaphod’s just zis guy, you know?”
-Gag Halfrunt
Wanna wanna, no gotta…Gotta gotta, no wanna. – Belizian saying
“You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.”
Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana.
The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion. — GK Chesterton
Those Who Sacrifice Liberty For Security Deserve Neither.
Benjamin Franklin
“Mihi cura futuri”
loosely translates to: “The care of the future is mine”
“This kind of situation does not call for freaking out.” -Grover
Opportunities multiply as they are seized. -Sun Tzu
“We wants it, we needs it. Must have the precious. They stole it from us. Sneaky little hobbitses” Gollum.
Some days you eat the bear; some days the bear eats you
A busy life makes prayer harder,
but prayer makes a busy life easier.
“It’s kind of fun to do the impossible.” – Walt Disney
“Chance favors the prepared mind.” Louis Pasteur
Klaatu Barada Nikto!
“Honey, I forgot to duck.” –Ronald Reagan.
“…can’t we all just get along.”
Cole Sear: She wanted me to tell you she saw you dance. She said, when you were little, you and her had a fight, right before your dance recital. You thought she didn’t come see you dance. She did. She hid in the back so you wouldn’t see. She said you were like an angel. She said you came to the place where they buried her. Asked her a question? She said the answer is… “Every day.” What did you ask?
Lynn Sear: Do… Do I make her proud?
The Sixth Sense
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
Oscar Wilde (1854 – 1900), The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
“I’d rather have a bottle in front of me, than a frontal lobotomy”
“If you want to know what a man’s like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
― J.K. Rowling
“Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.” Scout/Harper Lee (To Kill a Mockingbird)
“It’s not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.”
Update: The winner is #151 James Marcelino.
Congrats to James and thank you to everyone who entered and the sponsors!