Looking Back at CES 12', Looking Forward to CES 13'

275d ago ... While CES 2013 is still months away, I am looking forward to seeing the change in the landscape at the 2013 show. With significant changes such as Microsoft's first absence this year. OLED TV's seeing a retail launch in late 2012, and Ultrabooks and Smartphones getting faster and sleeker all year. There is no shortage of amazing tech, that the major players will be looking to cram down consumer...

August Contest Details

290d ago ... Already into August here at TechSpy and we are going to keep the focus on stories and commenting this month. With prizes for quality stories and quality comments leading the way. --STORY OF THE MONTH AWARD-- This is going to be the inaugural edition of this contest. It is pretty simple and open to all contributors. Simply find the most interesting, breaking or well written piece in intern...

July Contest Winners

290d ago ... Here are the Winners for July... --TOP COMMENTER-- - Xtr3me ($50) --COMMENT LOTTERY-- 1. AgentWhite ($50) 2. Crazay ($50) 3. techie11 ($50) --NEWS SUBMISSION CONTEST-- 1. n4gboy ($75) 2. -Mezzo- ($50) 3. AgentWhite ($25) Congratulations again to all the winners and thank you to all the hard working members here at TechSpy. Be sure to check out the Augu...

Adding I.Q. to Your HDTV

290d ago ... A TV that works with any sort of OS, can connect to the Internet, Apps or online only content is labeled as a Smart TV. The newest trend in Smart TV's is to resemble the Smartphone and Tablet environments with their Apps and ease of use. Having a "Dumb" HDTV however doesn't mean you can't create your own Smart TV by adding one of many things to your home theater set up. What you connect to y...

July Contest Details

318d ago ... --COMMENT LOTTERY-- For July commenting is the way to the prizes. The top scoring user in comments for the month will win a $50 Amazon Gift-Card. In addition to the highest comment score anyone that finishes the month with a comment score of 250 or higher will be entered in to a lottery for the chance to win 1 of 3 Amazon Gift Cards. So this month in total, there is $200 up for grabs...

June Contest Winners

322d ago ... After a solid month of News submissions here are the winners for June. --TOP CONTRIBUTOR CONTEST WINNERS-- 1. -Mezzo- ($100) 2. SJIND ($50) 3. Steve007 ($50) 4. iSpy ($50) 5. n4gboy ($50) --GENERAL SCORE LOTTERY WINNER--: $50 - dexus Congratulations again to all the winners and thank you to all the hard working members here at TechSpy. Be sure to check out the July...

June Contest Details

353d ago ... Here in the month of June we are going to do a bit of a throwback to the old days of our network site, N4G. When it was news, news and more news. You wanted prizes? You got in and hit the pending section hard to claim your prize. So to honor the past we are sticking to a news-centric contest this month...with a few twists on an old favorite. --TOP CONTRIBUTOR CONTEST-- Submit news and get...

May Contest Winners

353d ago ... Well after some very surprising results in our Comment Lottery we have the winners for our TechSpy May contest... --COMMENT LOTTERY CONTEST-- The two names pulled from the Random Generator this month only had 2 entries each, but somehow snatched victory from the jaws of defeat...Haven't seen anything this lucky since my last Legendary drop on Diablo III... The 2 Winners this month are:...

May Contest Details

384d ago ... This month the contest will keep in line with last month because some of the most important aspects of our community lie in our Contributors, our Community and the people who search out the latest and hottest news...So we will pump some prizes into the heart of the machine and keep it rolling in May. --COMMENT LOTTERY CONTEST-- Similar to last months contest but with a mild tweak this month...

April Contest Winners

384d ago ... Here are the winners from the month of fools. --COMMENT LOTTERY CONTEST-- Prize: 2 winners - a $75 Amazon Gift Card each! The lucky winners this month are: 1. BeastOrange 2. mushroomwig --HOTTEST STORY CONTEST-- This month the winner owes his heat to the resurrection of a fallen Rap Star in Hologram form. Or rather the story reporting it wasn't a hologram...1400 Degrees later and a...

April Contest Details

411d ago ... In the spirit of biting our main sites contests, we are going to mix it up a bit and try a lottery style system...Now no way of knowing how good this will work on a smaller scale. But if it doesn't there's always next month. So seriously don't troll me. I am in the process of making that illegal here in Arizona. Seriously. Sick. Of. Trolls. *Trollface* --COMMENT LOTTERY CONTEST-- Each comme...

March Contest Winners

412d ago ... After a reasonably quiet month here are the standouts from March and the Winners of some sweet new gear and cash. --TechSpy MVP Contest-- Score Winner: AgentWhite, - With an impressive 6230 in March Staff Pick Winner: BeastOrange, - Almost half as awesome as Racer. --Comment Contest-- Score Winner: fatstarr, - With a March Comment Score of 1600 Staff Pick Winner: C_Menz, - Even though...

March Contest Details

444d ago ... Month after month it is a struggle to try and freshen up these monthly contests. I feel Tech is almost one of those things where you know what you need to get your rig up to date or have a specific need for one of your many gadgets...but this month for a few of the contests we are going to supply prizes instead of our usual Amazon Gift Card buy what you need mentality. On the other hand if you...

February Contest Winners

444d ago ... After a great month and some interesting new faces here at TechSpy, here are the winners of the February contest including our most unique prize yet. Our hunted and gathered CES Swag Bag straight from the show floor. Without further ado here are the best of the best in the month of February. --CES Swag Bag Qualifiers-- -BeastOrange -cyberbob -C_Menz And the random generator has decid...

January Contest Winners

469d ago ... Here are the lucky winners of the January contest. Congrats to all of you and thank you for the participation in our CES coverage last month. TWITTER CONTEST: $50 Amazon GiftCard -Sillyace92 -BeastOrange -C_Menz -dilawer MANAGING CONTEST: $25 Amazon GiftCard -ssb3173 -gaffyh Congratulations again to all the winners and thank you to all the hard working members here at TechSpy...

February Contest Details

471d ago ... After a wild month of January to start the year, which included a trip to CES we are settling back in for the long stretch of 2012. First thing's first though...Giving away some of the swag we looted at CES. Plus some other almost as cool prizes. CES Gift Bag Giveaway Here she is boys, the Grand Daddy of all prizes. OK, so let's not get crazy but you would be a damn fool not to put some e...

CES Day 3: How do you spell Love? O-L-E-D

493d ago ... Day 3, with the crowds easing just a tiny bit we seized the opportunity to storm the major players and get to the big guns of the show. What did we find? OLED's and 3D that reversed my thinking that I don't need one...I also found my "Awesome" TV at home might as well be a black & white TV with the old school wood housing compared to the stunning elegance and picture of these OLED's First up...

Hands On @CES with Intel Smartphone Reference Design

493d ago ... One of the biggest and most interesting things to come out of Intel's Keynote yesterday was the Smartphone Reference Design it was showing off. Hitting the floor today I made it a mission to get a hold of this device. Here is what I got. The phone runs on a Z2460 Intel Atom Processor based on 32nm technology and also supports Hyper-Threading. Add in Intel's XMM 6260 Platform supporting HSPA+...

CES Day 2: Bieber Fever and Earthy Cans

494d ago ... CES this year is crazy, it's busy as hell already and then Justin Bieber designs a robot with the Vietnamese manufacturer of robots TOSY. Well you can imagine what happens next... Cue grown men climbing pillars and girls pushing forward like lambs to the slaughter. If you wish to see pictures of the Beebs, please go elsewhere as I could not swallow enough pride to stampede and climb pillars...

CES Day 1: Robotic Balls, Naked Girls and Network FAILS Oh MY!

495d ago ... Well Day 1 was spent exactly like my Rookie experience at CES. Walking around getting my bearings while catching elbows in the sternum from people clearly more important than me and in far more of a rush as well. I still wonder where they are going with such blatant disregard for human well being, but I guess that is neither here nor there. Ignoring the massive day one crowd estimated at 140...