Engadget's 3rd Birthday Giveaway - birthday cake winners!

It's time to find out who took home the last of the loot from our 3rd Birthday Giveaway -- including our grand prize OQO Model 02. The scores of delicious gadget-themed cakes that our loyal readers cooked up in honor of little old us definitely made this an agonizing contest to judge -- and not just because we didn't even get to eat any our own birthday cakes. But we did finally settle on some winners though, so click on to check out the top cakes (and hit the read link to see our full gallery)!

First place - Camilo Lisette
Camilo's expertly detailed table full of gadgets, including a Dell laptop, USB WiFi adapter, iPod nano, frosting paper, quarters and glasses, wacky ass lookin' PDA, and even a tissue box (no comment). Check out the video of their sugary desktop. Congratulations!

Second place - Eric Vass
Working Guitar Hero II cake controller! Note: this is the same Eric that won first place last Halloween. Nice work, Eric!

Third place - Solomon
Working RED HD camera. No, it doesn't record in HD, but it's far more delicious than the aluminum variety.

Fourth place - Sean G
Really explosive MacBook. You'll definitely want to peep the supplemental video here.

Fifth place - Jacob Negron
And, of course, an OQO Model 02. We had a few OQOs, but Jacob's keyboard was impeccably well done. Excellent work!

Noteworthy mention
Carlos Ariza's TV smashed by Wiimote cake
Eliott Krim's Roomba vs Roomba cake
Hector Oroopeza's LG Prada phone cake
Henry Sandefur's Wii cake

More cake videos
Curtis Gabriel's exploding MacBook cake (pics here)
Pedro Sanchez's iPhone cake
Ryo Sota's OQO cake

Check out all the cakes! (Or, if you're especially bored, check out last year's cake contest.) And again, big thanks to everyone who entered! Here's to another year of tech news we hope you can use.

Gallery: Engadget's 3rd birthday cake winners!

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[Muhammad @ Apr 14th 2007 6:32PM]

hey guys, are u going to be doing this again this year ?
or having a contest or something ?

[Curt @ Apr 14th 2007 6:34PM]

Awesome! I actually got my name on engadget! If anyone wants to see better photos/video of my exploding macbook, here are the links:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/zekelion/sets/72157600000684015/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IgBHI5xt7Yk

[Brad @ Apr 14th 2007 7:38PM]

Wow! Super impressed, kudos to everyone that made a cake, amazing ones at that!

[dick buttkiss @ Apr 15th 2007 12:14AM]

you bakers are crazy congrats on the prizes they look well deserved, these cakes are always my favorite posts.

[Elliott @ Apr 15th 2007 12:29AM]

man i dont even get a shirt. :( o well it was fun.

[arman @ Apr 15th 2007 11:27AM]

...same :P

[Ferny @ Apr 15th 2007 3:54AM]

I think that Carlos Ariza's TV smashed by Wiimote cake should have won but he probable lost points for making the tv a sony.

[Brennan @ Apr 15th 2007 7:37PM]

im still waiting if i won that birthday contest where everyone was able to post 3 past posts of ur favorite posts.

*sigh*.........