 Name this widget and win $100!
Whether you’re feeling gruesome or goofy, give our Name That Widget! contest a try. Send your entry (or entries), along with the issue date, by e-mail (widget@edn.cahners.com), by fax (Wallace P Widget, 1-617-558-4470), or by mail (Wallace P Widget, EDN Magazine, 275 Washington Street, Newton, MA 02458). Tell us what you think the widget is. Make us laugh or try our most recent winner’s approach (see below): Gross us out! Don’t tell us what the widget really is. Tell us what it could be. We’ll publish the winning entry and some fun runners-up in an upcoming issue. We’ll also tell you the manufacturer’s real name and purpose for the device. Please supply an e-mail or mailing address so we can notify you if you win. |
From our December 3, 1998, contest
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Got a corpse that needs embalming? Try Mummy’s Little Helper, as suggested by Lorne Bonkowski. Or use the device, Pope Scientific’s stainless-steel vessel, for its true purpose: storing, transferring, mixing, or processing pharmaceutical, food-grade, and bio materials. |
FIRST PRIZE $100
Lorne Bonkowski of Sust Manufacturing Co must have been feeling a little morbid after the holidays, or we at EDN were. We awarded the prize money for our Dec 3, 1998, contest to Lorne for suggesting that the widget is a portable embalming machine, also known as Mummy’s Little Helper. Simply place a corpse into the chamber, hook up the fluid and gas lines, and this little baby does the rest! The widget’s real purpose is slightly less macabre: It is a stainless-steel vessel system from Pope Scientific (Menomonee Falls, WI, 1-414-251-9300). You can use such vessels for storing, transferring, mixing, or processing high-purity pharmaceutical, food-grade, and bio materials. |
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RUNNERS-UP
The FIASCO (Fruitcake Incinerator and Santa Candy Obliterator), especially useful around the holidays.
—Bob Thompson, MicroEnergy Inc
The BeirBot, Germany’s first robotic, mobile microbrewery.
—Todd Roth, ASC Audio Video Corp
An early revision of R2D2’s mother.
—Chad Johnson
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AOL’s e-mail router.
—Randolph North, National Semiconductor
The Wanco Pressure Cooker 2000, for those times you’ve been at the beach and thought to yourself, "Damn, I sure could go for a good pot roast!" Simply attach the device to any car radiator via the supplied valves, add meat, potatoes, veggies, and anything else you want cooked to perfection, and voila! Perfect pot roast every time.
—Dan Gora, Adax Inc
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