TechCrunch Giveaway: Sa...

We have another exciting giveaway for all of you this week. Earlier this morning, Jordan wrote about our friends over at Picksie and the launch of their new Android app. For those who don’t know, Picksie is a location-based app that helps you figure out what fun things there are to do around you. However, you won’t be able to enjoy it without a solid Android phone. With a huge thank you to Picksie, we have a brand new Samsung Galaxy S II to give away, along with a leather case and a $25 gift card for app downloads. The winner of this giveaway will win all three of the prizes. The giveaway starts now and will end this Sunday, March 4th, at 7:30pm PT. To enter, all you have to do is follow the steps below. 1) Become a fan of our TechCrunch Facebook Page: 2) Then do one of the following: - Retweet this post (including the #TechCrunch hashtag) - Or leave us a comment below telling us about the most fun you had being spontaneous We’ll go through all of the comments and make sure you followed the steps correctly before picking our winner. We’ll choose the winner at random and contact them once the giveaway is over. This giveaway is for anyone in the world, as long as you can receive packages. Make sure you only tweet the message once, or you will unfortunately be disqualified. Good luck!

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Watch The TechCrunch Ga...

After a day of roaming the show floor in search of all things shiny and new, we thought it’d be a good idea to gather up the crew and do one big ol’ recap of everything we’ve seen so far. We’ve got gadgets, we’ve got guests — and, because we know how much you guys love free stuff, we’ve got a bunch of (really, really great) giveaways. Sony will be stopping by to show off some new tricks that the Playstation Vita has up its sleeve, Dell’s VP of Design Ed Boyd will be showing us the brand new XPS13 Ultrabook, and the TC Gadgets team will be running through the highlights of the show so far. Somewhere in between all that goodness, we’ll be giving away a Nest , a Jawbone Jambox , and a Playstation Vita that the winner will get as soon as the device is launched in February.

TechCrunch Giveaway: On...

Last week we ran a giveaway for one whole week, giving away a DROID Bionic . A huge congratulations to Scott Leither for winning last week’s DROID Bionic! Since the giveaway was so popular, we wanted to give all of you another shot. Thanks again to Verizon, we are giving one more DROID Bionic away to one lucky reader. Just like before, the giveaway will run for one full week and we will choose the winner next Friday. To enter, all you have to do is follow the steps below: 1) Click on this link to sign up. 2) Then do one of the following: - Retweet this post (making sure to include the #TechCrunch hashtag) - Leave us a comment below telling us why you want it The giveaway starts now and ends next Friday, October 7th, at 1pm PDT. We will pick one lucky reader at random and contact them via email next week. Anyone in the U.S. is eligible. Good luck everyone!

Red Bull Creation Spawn...

Red Bull gives you wings, right? Well, apparently it also gives 16 teams the energy necessary to build brand new and quite random inventions as a part of Red Bull’s annual Red Bull Creation event. In a nutshell, Red Bull throws out a secret theme at the very beginning of the weekend and teams are asked to create gizmos and gadgets that exemplify that theme, all in a matter of 72 hours. This year, it was “Energy In Motion,” and that’s exactly what we saw there. From spinning see-saws to a “WPV” (wedgie-powered vehicle), imagination was certainly not lacking at McCarren Park in Brooklyn yesterday. It would be almost stupid to try and describe what we saw there without images: Maker: Innovative Thirst Creation: A clay-powered mobile pod with suspended electricity-generating swing set. Maker: NYC Resistor Creation: A steam-powered off-road trolley car, with a nice bronze-style finish. Maker: Hack RVA Creation: A hacked up shopping cart that does its own hardcore poppa-wheelies, fittingly named the Wheelie Mobile. Maker: Donner Party 2.0 Creation: A electric hybrid tricycle fitted with a dryer that also works as a humongous blender. Strawberry daiquiris anyone? Maker: Team Doublewide Creation: A robot called “The Amazing Cyclo.” Think Johnny 5, but as a puppet, with an LCD face and a single wheel made of shoes for a foot. And a remote control, of course. “Team Award” Winner: Techshop Creation: A spinning see-saw that lifts riders 12 feet in the air, while an accelerometer waits for the perfect moment to trigger an attached Polaroid camera, ultimately grabbing amusement-park-style candids of the riders’ faces. Drum roll please! And the winner is… Maker: 1.21 Jigawatts Creation: Alright, this one’s a bit more difficult to explain. Basically, 1.21 Jigawatts wired an enormous wooden hamster wheel into a wireless network and gave it its own phone number. According to its maker, the massive wireless wheel could receive up to 60,000 one-word text messages at the same time, and then print out the texts on the pavement by rolling along the ground. In all honesty, the only purpose of this contraption is to make people stop in their tracks, drop their jaw, and stare. Obviously, that’s exactly what 1.21 Jigawatts created: a show-stopper. Team Award winner Techshop went home with a brand new Makerbot 3D Printer, which creates little 3D sculptures from a scanned images (pictured below). 1.21 Jigawatts, Red Bull Creation’s grand prize winner, left the show with $5,000 and four 40W Hobby Laser Cutters.