The Three Winners of Power Challenge Contest
These guys know what our gadgets crave.
Late last month we launched a feature with an accompanying contest as part of our Tom's Guide Power Challenge.
Today we're proud to announce our winners and the prizes that they get to take home:
- First Prize: Clifton Howard (One ASUS 1201N Netbook, One P4400 Kill-A-Watt power monitor, Two Belkin Conserve Strips)
- Second Prize: Joe Trott (Two Belkin Conserve Strips)
- Third Prize: Greg Jareske (One Belkin Conserve Strip)
Congratulations to our winners and thanks to all those who entered!
Check out our big reveal of how much juice some of our favorite electronics consume, check out our Power Challenge conclusion piece here.
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Congratulations!
Apparently I totally missed the article about this...
i'm lost, what were the rules of the contest and what were the results? what were they trying to do?
lol @ 2nd and 3rd prizes. It's first place or nothing. Nonetheless, congrats to the winners.
Yes, I missed this contest.
What was it about?
Also true, 2nd and 3rd prizes are crap.
Congrats to 1st place.
Yes, I missed this contest.What was it about?Also true, 2nd and 3rd prizes are crap.Congrats to 1st place.
funny thing is you know the 2nd and third place guys are thinking exactly that!
I saw the article. That was a contest?
Congrats, your way better at math and knowledge of electricity than I am. I didn't even try.
The point of the contest was to accurately guess: 1) How much electricity a certain group of household electronics used in a month, and 2) How much electricity would be saved for a certain group of electronics in a month if the Belkin Conserve strips were implemented to eliminate "vampire loads." Here are both articles:
http://www.tomsguide.com/us/energy [...] -1541.html
http://www.tomsguide.com/us/energy [...] -1543.html