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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.

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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!

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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.

Doodle 4 Google 2011 Wi...

Someday, Matteo Lopez of South San Francisco, Calif., wants to be an astronaut and explore space life. Today, the 7-year-old Monte Verde Elementary School student is the winner of the 2011 Doodle 4 Google competition, beating out 107,000 other sub...

TechCrunch Giveaway: La...

This is your last chance to win a free ticket to this year’s Disrupt in New York City ! The conference is from May 23rd to May 25th, a little over a week away, and has an incredible lineup of guest speakers and judges. You can read all about our speakers here , and you can take a peek at our three day agenda, as of now, here . We still have a couple other little surprises that we will be announcing. Some very special guests have confirmed and we will be revealing them shortly. Since this is your last chance to win a free ticket, we wanted to throw in something extra to make it special. A couple of weeks ago, Alexia wrote about a company named Talkatone. They were generous enough to give us a free iPod Touch with Talkatone already installed, so we thought it would be nice to give it away to one of our readers. So, the winner of this giveaway will win a free ticket to Disrupt, a ticket valued at around $3,000, and an iPod Touch, courtesy of Talkatone . If you want a chance at winning, all you have to do is follow the steps below. 1) Like our TechCrunch Facebook Page: 2) Then do one of the following: - Retweet this post (including the #TechCrunch hashtag) - Or leave us a comment below The contest starts now and ends tomorrow, May 14th at 7:30pm PST. Please only tweet the message once or you will be disqualified. We will make sure you follow the steps above, choose at random, and contact the winner this weekend with more details. Anyone in the world is eligible. Please note this giveaway is for 1 ticket and 1 iPod Touch only. It does not include airfare or hotel. Good luck everyone!