The first contest is over and the big winner is Kevin. The winners will be notified via email shortly. Here are the answers:

1. Nintendo Entertainment System (NES)
2. Tribble from Star Trek
3. SOS
4. Rotary tool
5. Rancor from the Return of the Jedi
6. The cover from the first printing of Isaac Asimov’s I, Robot.
7. Colecovision
8. “Don’t Panic”
9. The Legend of Zelda, Street Fighter, Tomb Raider
10. Motoko Kusanagi from Ghost in the Shell
11. The Fifth Element
12. Atari 2600 (4 button version if you want to get extra technical)
13. HAL 9000

I bought a little trinket because it had some nostalgic value and then started using it as a test of my co-workers. It made me start thinking of some more visual tests and finally came up with my Visual Geek Test.

Sends your answers to contest_1@onlyhacks.com by the end of 10/31/08 and win one of the prizes below. I will award prizes based on the number of correct answers. If there is tie, the winner will be chosen at random from the correct entries. Only one entry per person, please!

First Prize - One LED flashlight and the item shown in question 1
Second Prize - One LED flashlight
Third Prize - The item shown in question 1

I have been not posting daily because I want to make sure all posts are quality posts. I have been a little busy recently and haven’t had time to dig up good hacks.

If you have any hacks/projects that you think are good for this site, please send in them in on the contact page. I am looking for things that have not been posted on the other big hacking sites. We all read them and do not want to see the same posts everywhere. Here are a few guidelines:

1. The hack is at least 90% complete.
2. It has not been featured on the big sites like HAD, engadget, Make, etc.
3. It is not the newest post on Instructables. Those get picked up by sites in #2.

Obviously I changed the site. I know some things still need to be fixed. I thought it was important to get his out because it easily allowed you to scroll back to previous posts. The old theme only showed the most recent 10 posts. To back any further, you needed to go through a cumbersome process.

It will be back to normal shortly. All posts were saved.