Engadget's recession antidote: win a Brando 55-in-1 Card Reader reader!

This whole global economic crisis, and its resulting massive loss of jobs got us thinking. We here at Engadget didn't want to stand helplessly by, announcing every new round of misery without giving anything back -- so we decided to take the opportunity to spread a little positivity. We'll be handing out a new gadget every day (except for weekends) to lucky readers until we run out of stuff or companies stop sending things. Today we've got ten (yes, 10!) Brando 55 in 1 Card Readers to give away. Read the rules below (no skimming -- we're omniscient and can tell when you've skimmed) and get commenting! Hooray for free stuff!

Big thanks to Brando for providing the gear!

The rules:

• Leave a comment below. Any comment will do, but if you want to share your proposal for "fixing" the world economy, that'd be sweet too.
  
• You may only enter this specific giveaway once. If you enter this giveaway more than once you'll be automatically disqualified, etc. (Yes, we have robots that thoroughly check to ensure fairness.)
• If you enter more than once, only activate one comment. This is pretty self explanatory. Just be careful and you'll be fine.
  
• Contest is open to anyone in the 50 States, 18 or older! Sorry, we don't make this rule (we hate excluding anyone), so be mad at our lawyers and contest laws if you have to be mad.
  
• Winner will be chosen randomly. The winner will receive one (1) Brando 55 in 1 Card Reader. Ten (10) winners will be chosen.
  
• If you are chosen, you will be notified by email. Winners must respond within three days of the end of the contest. If you do not respond within that period, another winner will be chosen.
• Entries can be submitted until Friday, May, 15th, at 11:59PM ET. Good luck!
• Full rules can be found here.

[(Unverified) Posted May 15th 2009 12:01PM]

Yes, the poor man's SSD

[(Unverified) Posted May 15th 2009 12:09PM]

BRANDO

IT'S WHAT CARDS CRAVE.

[spartacus210 Posted May 15th 2009 12:11PM]

dooo want

[(Unverified) Posted May 15th 2009 12:20PM]

Oh Brando u.u;;

[(Unverified) Posted May 15th 2009 12:26PM]

Please can I have one of these? Kthnxbai.

[(Unverified) Posted May 15th 2009 12:49PM]

It better have electrolytes!

[(Unverified) Posted May 15th 2009 12:45PM]

No thanks...

[engadgetcommentlogin Posted May 15th 2009 12:51PM]

haha!

[(Unverified) Posted May 15th 2009 1:00PM]

I'll win this time, I'm sure.

[Overclocker Posted May 15th 2009 12:53PM]

It would have been funnier if it was in the shape of a squid or godzilla, but I'll still take this one.

[Streetfights Posted May 15th 2009 1:14PM]

COOL I WANT

[Piranha Posted May 15th 2009 1:16PM]

woot

[(Unverified) Posted May 15th 2009 1:26PM]

woot!

[(Unverified) Posted May 15th 2009 1:32PM]

yay

[Nerdtalker Posted May 15th 2009 9:30PM]

Flash cards != SSD to begin with.

In name and principle, certainly. In practice, no.

[knwldg0010 Posted May 15th 2009 1:56PM]

i can use that.

[(Unverified) Posted May 15th 2009 2:04PM]

But why do my Cards need electrolytes?

[(Unverified) Posted May 15th 2009 2:04PM]

awesomenesssss

[(Unverified) Posted May 15th 2009 2:10PM]

Free stuff will directly stimulate the economy because the money I save from the free gear will give me more money to spend elsewhere!

[(Unverified) Posted May 15th 2009 2:15PM]

let's do this card reader

[(Unverified) Posted May 15th 2009 2:27PM]

i need this, i have lots of cards.

[BayCreekTech Posted May 15th 2009 2:29PM]

please, i need one.

[aflat Posted May 15th 2009 3:23PM]

I have cards. They need to be read. This would work!

[(Unverified) Posted May 15th 2009 2:43PM]

I believe I would like one of these.

BRANDO - IT'S GOT ELECTROLYTES!

[(Unverified) Posted May 15th 2009 2:43PM]

One thing I never liked about those multi-readers is that they usually don't handle SDHC which totally sucks. I'm not going to win this anyway and they can keep it for all I care.

[(Unverified) Posted May 15th 2009 2:50PM]

Wow, another useful gadget! Thanks Engadget!

[WiiFTW Posted May 15th 2009 3:08PM]

Brando: does it have what my microSD cards crave?

[(Unverified) Posted May 15th 2009 3:15PM]

I have cards. The cards have data. I could put the data INTO MY COMPUTER with this.

[(Unverified) Posted May 15th 2009 3:21PM]

I want one please.....

[(Unverified) Posted May 15th 2009 3:29PM]

i like this

[(Unverified) Posted May 15th 2009 3:41PM]

Test. Do not read. You may eat it if you wish.

[Foojibar Posted May 15th 2009 4:07PM]

nice thingy

[(Unverified) Posted May 15th 2009 4:22PM]

interesting

[(Unverified) Posted May 15th 2009 4:32PM]

I accept. I'll take it. Thank you.

[(Unverified) Posted May 15th 2009 4:55PM]

This is a comment

[dj69 Posted May 15th 2009 4:55PM]

contender

[Ryan Trevisol Posted May 15th 2009 5:13PM]

55 in 1?!?!? I'll take 54 in one!

[(Unverified) Posted May 15th 2009 5:38PM]

More memory.

[(Unverified) Posted May 15th 2009 5:49PM]

me me me!!

[(Unverified) Posted May 15th 2009 9:14PM]

y/n?

[(Unverified) Posted May 17th 2009 7:59AM]

With all my tech gadgets this would sure be useful.

[(Unverified) Posted May 15th 2009 10:44PM]

That would be convenient...

[PureVendetta Posted May 15th 2009 11:00PM]

Sounds good, I'll Take all ten!!! But one will be good too...

[(Unverified) Posted May 15th 2009 11:54PM]

please pick me

[cecilyen Posted May 16th 2009 12:33PM]

I need one!

[(Unverified) Posted May 16th 2009 5:30PM]

Iam the winner!

[(Unverified) Posted May 15th 2009 12:02PM]

.......

[(Unverified) Posted May 15th 2009 5:41PM]

Will gladly accept this offering from the anti-recession gods.

[(Unverified) Posted May 15th 2009 12:03PM]

ill pass

[(Unverified) Posted May 15th 2009 1:00PM]

Give everyone extra memory cards for their digital cameras. They'll take more pictures and print them out. Problem solved.