Got an iPhone or an iPod Touch? Know someone who does? Well, fire itup and put on your beret - or whatever you wear when you're feelingarty. Ten One Design, makers of the Pogo Stylus (a stylus that workswith iPhone's capacitive touch screen), is offering up $500 to whoeversubmits the best piece of art created using iPhone OS.
Details? Let's ask the PR people:
The creators of the Pogo Stylus, the first iPhone- and iPod touch-compatible stylus, have announced its $500 Art Challengeas a way to encourage Pogo Stylus users to draw, sketch and doodle withtheir capacitive touch screen tool. One winner, who will receive $500cash, will be selected based on artistic skill, presentation andcreativity/originality.
?We love to see our customers using the Pogo Stylus creatively,? saidPeter Skinner, Ten One Design CEO. ?This contest is a catalyst to getour supporters thinking outside the box, and we can't wait to see whatthey come up with.?
Submissions can be sent to contest@tenondesign.com or uploaded atwww.tenonedesign.com/contest and are welcome from any Pogo Stylus user? no naked fingers allowed. All entries, which will be featured in theTen One Design Art Gallery, must be in by 11:59 p.m. EST on July 1,2009. A panel of judges will select one winner who will be announced onTen One Design's Web site on July 5. For a complete list of rules,please visit www.tenonedesign.com.
And check out some of the crazy samples of work people are doing (the montage at the top of this post was sent by Ten One's PR people). On a phone! What a nutty world, huh?