Speck Cases Giveway Winner Announced…
Posted on 09 November 2009, at 8:10 am, by Dan Cohen
Speck offers great device protection and, reading through some of the tales of device-abuse, many of our readers really need to protect their devices as much as possible.
To read their tales… and find out who won…read on. But we’re warning you, some of these device damage stories will make the most hardened techie cringe.
My worst device damage story has to be the time when I ruined my 120GB external HDD. At the time it was attached to my PowerBook, and when I heard a tortured, knocking noise from inside the drive I unplugged it in a panic. After trying to get it to mount, I only made things worse by attempting a reformat, erase, everything but research recovery options first. Ergo one bricked drive, lots of lost files.
I was walking my dog and he saw a rabbit in the tree line. He took off after it and when the leash got the end of the slack it took me with it. I was holding my phone txt’ng and it went a flying
The worst issue I have had, and have been pretty lucky, is that I have my iMac on my desk at work – had an external CD drive on the desk underneath. Thought I had plenty of room to slide my tablet PC underneath, went to slide it in and somehow caught the “corner” of my iMac (it doesn’t have corners BTW) and have a lovely scratch on the lid of my tablet. Not as bad as a cracked screen or busted chassis, but still annoying nonetheless. Now all of my devices, laptops included, get at least a vinyl overlay (clear or printed) to protect from things like this.
A few months back I was trying to use those new Ziploc steamer bags that you put in the microwave ( a microwave is a device right?) followed their instructions and cut up my carrot into slices put the bag same side up etc as i had with other items in the past, i set the timer for about half the recommended time and turned around to finish something else. Then it happened, i started hearing strange noises coming from behind me and when I turned around I saw what appeared to be a strange light show emanating from the microwave area. As i stepped over I was startled to discover my microwave was having an identity crisis and had decided it wanted to be a fireplace, flames were emanating from the Ziploc bag now filled with orange charcoal. I hit the clear button in a panic and the flames went out. Unfortunately the smell did not… Sigh much worse than the foil wrapped pop tart of 2005.
My wife dropped my Treo 700 down a flight of concrete steps and it tumbled and finally split open at the bottom. Arrgh.
My tale is an old one. Sometime in the early nineties I had a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III hand held LCD game and I left it on top of the trunk of my Dad’s car. My dad went for pizza. I tried to find that game for like two hours after dinner. I was so annoyed my dad took me out to rent a Nintendo game. The rental store was right next to the pizza place and my game was sitting in the parking lot cracked and totally busted. Cried like a little girl….
I was with my wife and friends drinking at a bar and when nature called, I answered it at the urinal. Mid-stream, my phone started vibrating. Being drunk and eager, I tried to answer it and dropped it right in my _____. Yup, you guessed it… ruined by #1. The funny thing was… it was my wife that was calling, wondering where I had gone because she didn’t see me in the bar.
The following Gear Diary Readers will be getting new cases thanks to Speck. Just email me privately with your full name and shipping address, and they’ll be on their way…
lloydrv 3G CandyShell in Waxskin White
dsaxman Fitted for iPod touch
thehotrod PixelSkin Nano Case
brislock 3G CandyShell Aquaberry Blue
ediosy 3G CandyShell in Purple Pink
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November 10th, 2009 at 5:12 pm
Awesome!!!! Thanks so much GearDiary and Speck. I couldn’t wait and I ordered a black candy shell for my iPhone 3G. I love it. It is my favorite case so far. I can’t wait to try out the PixelSkin Nano Case on my Nano.