Engadget's recession antidote: win an Altec Lansing octiv Air!

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 an Altec Lansing octiv Air (a "wireless 80 watt wall of sound for your iPod") on offer. 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 Altec Lansing 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) Altec Lansing octiv Air. Retail value approximately $399.
  
• 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 Tuesday, June, 30th, at 11:59PM ET. Good luck!
• Full rules can be found here.

[Mike @ Jun 30th 2009 12:11PM]

Yay, I'll take it \o/

[Mitch @ Jun 30th 2009 12:14PM]

Sign me up!

[Overclocker @ Jun 30th 2009 12:14PM]

My wife would love this.

[austinmichaelcraig @ Jun 30th 2009 12:17PM]

I accept your kind gift. Thank you much.

[meoge @ Jun 30th 2009 12:17PM]

I'll take one please

[Hyung @ Jun 30th 2009 12:18PM]

me

[hickhamt @ Jun 30th 2009 12:19PM]

mine too!!! girl fight!! ha..

[Mitchhackney @ Jun 30th 2009 12:20PM]

Go go gadget speakers!

[atomicmatt @ Jun 30th 2009 12:20PM]

Ok def. this time, right?

[hdyoung3 @ Jun 30th 2009 12:21PM]

Rock on.

[Michael @ Jun 30th 2009 12:22PM]

sold!...for free

[webcat @ Jun 30th 2009 12:23PM]

one for me

[SimbaDogg @ Jun 30th 2009 12:23PM]

gimme

[Orphic1 @ Jun 30th 2009 12:24PM]

yea!

[oldmicah @ Jun 30th 2009 4:06PM]

shiney!

[h2c @ Jun 30th 2009 12:26PM]

I wants it too.

[lawyer bird @ Jun 30th 2009 12:25PM]

I want one of these so bad!!

[Sam @ Jun 30th 2009 12:26PM]

hook me up

[Chad @ Jun 30th 2009 12:28PM]

Riding the wave

[Lostman @ Jun 30th 2009 12:34PM]

I'll take it please!

[Matthew Hsu @ Jun 30th 2009 12:34PM]

...

[Nate @ Jun 30th 2009 12:36PM]

poop

[Chris Y @ Jun 30th 2009 1:35PM]

I like chicken nuggets.
I also like Altec Lansing octiv Air

[Andrew @ Jun 30th 2009 2:12PM]

I'm in.

[Jeremy Ems @ Jun 30th 2009 12:39PM]

Count me in!

[david @ Jun 30th 2009 12:40PM]

me 2 please

[Brian @ Jun 30th 2009 12:40PM]

Comment

[Charles Chatman @ Jun 30th 2009 12:40PM]

Looks pretty cool

[adam_johnson @ Jun 30th 2009 12:43PM]

Put me down for 1!

[[e-mail] @ Jun 30th 2009 12:42PM]

me me me

[eatalay @ Jun 30th 2009 12:42PM]

wait - i can take it as well.

[wagon @ Jun 30th 2009 12:43PM]

yes please, i'll take back all of those nasty things i said about you...

[David Whiteman @ Jun 30th 2009 12:44PM]

All I need is the ictiv Air that I breathe....

[TM @ Jun 30th 2009 12:44PM]

is it my turn to win today?

[Mike @ Jun 30th 2009 12:47PM]

taco salad pls

[PedoJokerBear (aka Deeznuts) @ Jun 30th 2009 12:49PM]

come to papa

[kollver @ Jun 30th 2009 12:50PM]

I want to win this

[Cryptography @ Jun 30th 2009 12:51PM]

Here you go, The following is Obama's loop for fixing the us economy. Unfortunately you will find that if you run this formula in almost any situation you will end up bankrupting yourself and the government... But hay free money is good even when its worth nothing right?

while($debt > 0)
{
$debt = $debt - $money_from_obama;
$national_debt = $national_debt + $money_from_obama;
$value_of_dollar = $dollars_in_circulation / ($dollars_in_circulation + $money_from_obama) * $current_value;
$dollars_in_circulation = $dollars_in_circulation + $money_from_obama;
$debt = $debt + $imports / $value_of_dollar;
}

[Peter @ Jun 30th 2009 12:57PM]

comment

[Nykad @ Jun 30th 2009 1:23PM]

Please!

[shul @ Jun 30th 2009 12:58PM]

Ok, this look awsome

[xtole @ Jun 30th 2009 12:59PM]

I'll take one

[Tranman @ Jun 30th 2009 1:02PM]

Free Stuff!

[dswatski @ Jun 30th 2009 1:03PM]

That looks great.

[jciscon @ Jun 30th 2009 1:03PM]

woal, pretty awesome looking speaker.

[Cliff @ Jun 30th 2009 1:04PM]

80 watts of wireless power? Screw what my nads might think of that! Gimme!

[Liem Le @ Jun 30th 2009 1:04PM]

more comedies please

[jeremy @ Jun 30th 2009 1:10PM]

I want to win. :)

[Makavre @ Jun 30th 2009 1:13PM]

*** taps guy in shoulder ***

excuse me sir ..... is this the line to download Firefox ???

[we need thneeds @ Jun 30th 2009 1:13PM]

and we get to keep the backsheesh!