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Technabob Contest: Win Custom Printed MOO Business Cards!

Technabob — Sat, 17 Mar 2012 18:30:38 +0000

For those of you unfamiliar with MOO, they make some of the coolest looking business cards you can buy. They offer an online printing service which makes it easy for you to print awesome looking cards in a snap – and in full color. Well, thanks to the guys at Moo, we’ve got a chance for you guys to win some cards for yourself.

Three lucky Technabob readers will win a set of 100 custom printed MOO business cards, along with a ShowCase business card holder to carry them in. The MOO cards themselves can be printed from either your own full color images, or from hundreds of artist-made design templates.

Cards can feature full color on both sides, and you can even have different images on each of your cards if you’d like. The process is fast and easy, and we here at Technabob can speak from experience as we’ve printed our own business cards using MOO’s service.

So on to the good part. If you’d like a chance to win these cards for yourself, simply follow the directions in the form below. You can win up to 10 entries by performing more tasks.

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In addition to business cards, MOO offers custom printed postcards, greeting cards, stickers and labels, as well as awesome mini cards.

Contest open worldwide, and ends on March 25th, 2012 at 12:01am Eastern time. Approximate retail value of each prize pack is $51 (USD). Limit one prize per entrant. Prizes provided to Technabob by MOO.com.

The Smartest Business Card on Earth

Lambert Varias — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 12:03:14 +0000

We’ve seen a business card that light up, and even ones that ask if you’re a person. But in terms of nerdity, none of those can come close to Engr. Ramiro Veredas’ circuit board business card, which he says has “more CPU power than the computer that led the man to the moon.” The CPU in question? A 16-bit, 32MHz microcontroller.

So yeah, it’s not impressive by today’s standards – I mean if this thing can send men to the moon, then our phones are probably smart enough to send us to Jupiter or something – but it sure makes for good conversation, and that could help when you’re on a job interview.

As you can see, the card has a USB connector. When it’s plugged into a computer, a script automatically launches an HTML file containing Veredas’ CV. The card’s 24KB onboard memory is enough to store the script and the HTML file, but it can be augmented with up to 32 MB of memory if needed – and that’s a big if.

The back of the card has an additional message, although I think we can all tell just by looking that it’s more than just a business card. Actually it would have made more sense if it said “This is also a business card!”

[via Geekosystem]

Captcha Business Cards Ask: Are You Human?

Technabob — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 12:35:48 +0000

You know those annoying (but necessary) anti-robo-spam CAPTCHA boxes you have to deal with when filling out forms on the web? Here’s a clever idea for some eye-catching business cards based on CAPTCHA technology.

Berlin-based artist Aram Bartholl created these cards by uploading the individual images to MOO Cards, who specializes in making tiny business cards, each with a different image. While the cards ask the question “Are you human?”, I’m not quite sure what would happen if you handed one of these to a robot. Would it self-destruct? That would be cool.

Did you know CAPTCHA stands for “Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart”? I always thought it meant “Cats Acting Cool Taste Chocolate Ham Animals”. Mnemonics, your dear, dear friend.

[via F.A.T., Josh Spear and Micah Spear]