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Digital Trends has a brand new giveaway in the form of the FujiFilm Instax 210. If you checked out our Instax Mini 7S review, you know how impressed we were with FujiFilm’s modern take on the Polaroid, not to mention its quality color film (which, of course, the winner will also receive an ample amount of). The Instax 210 is a durable machine that slips neatly inside your bag and fits nicely in your hand. And who says settings are for digital… Read More

Have you ever wanted to have a cameo in a video game as a survivor of an alien invasion? Sure, who hasn’t! Well now you can make your dreams a reality, as Insomniac Games and SCEA have decided to hold a contest. Fans can head over to the official contest site and upload a picture of themselves in “Resistance style battle (or looking like they have just survived one)”. Props are encouraged, and the contest runs until March 11, 2011, so act… Read More

We live in an age of shrinking privacy, where everyone shares just about everything, from what we ate for dinner to our doctors' latest diagnosis. But one thing Americans most certainly should not share openly is a Social Security Number — the password to some of our deepest darkest secrets, the thing that can unlock our official identities to any schemer or misfit who might like to take advantage of us. Which is why Google raised… Read More

We had a chance to go legs on with Ambiguous Clothing's Pike jeans, but the skate clothier has an entire catalog full of swank duds. And we're able to hook you up with some, gratis. As much as we would like to mail out the jeans from our review, salsa stains and all, Ambigious has proffered up an entire outfit for one lucky contest winner, including a button-down, tank top, tee, belt, and jeans. (We recommend adding your own socks,… Read More

The man who first hacked the iPhone has done it again on Apple’s latest golden child, the MacBook Air. The hot new notebook was the first to fall in a hacking contest held at the CanSecWest security conference, netting Charlie Miller his $10,000 prize in just two minutes. The PWN2OWN contest featured a Sony Vaio running Ubuntu 7.10, a Fujitsu U810 running Windows Vista Ultimate SP1, and a MacBook Air Running OSX 10.5.2. The… Read More

Sierra Entertainment and GameTrailers have teamed up to launch a user-generated movie contest called “Show Us Your F.E.A.R.” via the official Web site for the upcoming action/horror game F.E.A.R.—First Encounter Assault Recon, due to ship in November 2006. In the contest, users submit their own unique, short, scary, and creative videos which demonstrate what they feel to be the true meaning of the word fear. (We imagine… Read More

A Tivo for $49.99? A chance to be Tivo's main fan for a year? That's just two of the incentives the digital video recorder company announced today as they attempt to grow their user base. The $49.99 promotion is a $150 rebate offering impacting all Tivo Series2 DVRs, except DirecTV DVRs with Tivo, purchased between now and November 27, 2005. Service must be activated before January 15, 2006. “Whether you're new to… Read More