iPod Giveaway #3: We Have a Winner

July 8th, 2005

Competitor “joshua” was right when he questioned whether most entries in the third monthly iPod-A-Month Creativity Competition correctly followed the instructions of exploring alternative uses of iPods. Luckily, however, we applaud the breaking of rules here at Mike Industries, and that is why I’m happy to announce this month’s winner and a new honor roll of the top 30 entries… some following the rules more closely than others.

So without further ado, congratulations to Charlie D., whose crudely assembled infomercial about sending iPod Shuffles full of music into space is available for viewing here. It’s an interesting concept for sure, and one which holds special significance after seeing NASA ram a spacecraft with thousands of names on it into a comet earlier this week.

Charlie will receive an iPod Shuffle from me, and a pair of $150 Etymolic earbuds from the nice folks over at iPodLounge.com.

Below is a slideshow of the top 30 non-video entries with the first 10 being the runners-up, in order of greatness. The last 20 are in random order:

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Stay tuned for the next installment of the Mike Industries iPod-A-Month Creativity Competition slated to begin around the middle of this month. And as always, the submission pool remains open.

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9 Responses:

  1. hink says:

    Woohoo! #10 right under the wire! :P Thanks for running such a great contest, Mr. Davidson. You’re a mensch, to be sure.

    Congrats to Charlie D. and all the other entries, some of which made Dr. Pepper shoot from my nose.

    #1 - July 8th, 2005 at 1:31 pm
  2. AkaXakA says:

    iScrape, uScrape, we all scrape for iScrape!

    Love that entry :)

    #2 - July 8th, 2005 at 2:15 pm
  3. Charlie D. says:

    Many thanks to Mike Davidson (and iPodlounge) for the prizes and for an innovative contest that allows for a lot of creativity!

    Congratulations to all of the other entries as well! There are a lot of extremely artistic and inventive people frequenting this site!

    Funny you should mention Deep Impact as my name was one of the names on that impactor :)

    #3 - July 8th, 2005 at 2:40 pm
  4. James says:

    Number 8? Me? Sweet…

    Well done to Charlie, that is hilarious and certainly a worthy winner.

    #4 - July 8th, 2005 at 2:47 pm
  5. John says:

    Noticed mine came in at number #12 but that was probably under the randomiser, all entries were awesome, well done everyone :) – congrats on winning the shuffle and headphones Charlie D. !

    #5 - July 8th, 2005 at 3:37 pm
  6. Mike B. says:

    i made the #11 spot with my good idea that i did a crappy job on……oh well i guess i’m impatient but hey its only my first attempt…..

    congratulations to Charlie for winning

    #6 - July 8th, 2005 at 4:09 pm
  7. Thomas says:

    Charlie: congratulations! Nicely done idea :)

    Mike, thanks for this continuing competition (since this was my first go) and I hope to do better next time (maybe crack the top ten)… I don’t envy your task at choosing, since I’ve seen some fantastic work for each competition!

    #7 - July 9th, 2005 at 6:38 am
  8. John D. says:

    1st runner up? Wow. I’m honored.

    #8 - July 9th, 2005 at 10:31 am
  9. Nathan says:

    Thanks For the opportunity Mike and Congrats to Charlie, I’m happy to have two entries in the top 30 and I’m looking forward to the next challenge.

    Cheers.

    #9 - July 9th, 2005 at 6:36 pm

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