What Would (Steve) Jobs Do? 2: We have some winners!

Yes, it's a little later in the day than we wanted to announce this, but it is still technically Monday (at least here on the East coast), so here are the results of our second
What Would (Steve) Jobs Do? contest, where we asked you to send in your best guess for what the new iMac might look like, or what other crazy new Apple products might get announced at the Apple Expo in Paris this week.

First off, thanks to everyone who entered! Altogether we received literally hundreds of entries, after many laborious,
sweaty, twelve-angry-men-style hours in the Engadget HQ boardroom we were finally able to settle on some finalists.
Here goes:

For the first part of the competition, we asked you to send us in some original concept designs for the long-rumored newly redesigned iMac, the prize a brand new Griffin RoadTrip. We showed you a small cross-section of our entries last week, which ranged from elaborate photoshop jobs to  line-drawings. And the winner of the best iMac G5 design? Paul Scates?s L profile machine, which we picked not because we think that this is what Apple will introduce this week, but rather because of its sleek, innovative profile.  Congratulations Paul, we?re sure you?re going to have loads of fun cruisin? around for the last few weeks of summer with your new Griffin iTrip. Now what we?d really like to see is a design duel between you and Isamu Sawada, game?

A simple italicized ?L? profile, with the guts mounted in the rear ?foot? and the screen tilt back-and-forward on
a hidden pivot seam. Also, maybe there?s a subtle ?lazy susan? disk on the bottom, allowing for easy side-to-side
swivel? That, combined with the displays back-to-front tilt provides the screen mobility?

Ports could either be on side (as in the jellybean iMac and eMac OR in the rear, more hidden from view? Slot loading
drive in front, with USB, FireWire and headphone jack easily accessible from the front.

For the other part of the competition we asked you to send in your ideas for something a little more off-beat that Apple might unveil this week, with the prize of a secret unannounced new product from Griffin, which we can now reveal to be the EarJams, those special attachments that make the iPod?s earbuds sound better. Like last time, we had to slog our way through way more entries than we had expected, but in the end we went with Paul Kerr?s concepts for better integrating iPods and iMacs into all this digital home media convergence stuff we heep hearing about:

I look for Jobs to announce a way to link multiple iPods together to a wall-mountable flatscreen iMac to play
tunes from one or more iPods without enabling copying the iMac?s music to unrelated iPods. ?Having a party? Tell
everyone to bring their iPod and we?ll play their music, too.? (And keep your old iPod around even when you buy a new
one so there are fewer of them available in the aftermarket.) So a daisy-chainable Firewire or USB2 dock and a
multi-iPod player version of iTunes. This is low-hanging fruit.

Steve also needs something that gives him a new reason to say ?Windows doesn?t get the media revolution.? Windows
Media player may play movie files, but does it record and play back the media you watch most ? TV and your TiVo? An
initial release of an Apple-branded and improved TiVo-to-go that supports recording (maybe) and playing back movies
over Ethernet within a household. Buy the kids an iMac and they don?t need their own TV in their room, they can
record what they want regardless of what the parental units are recording, then play it back on their iMac in
their room or on one of the TiVo-equipped TVs in the house. Thus an enhanced Tivo-to-go hardware dongle product
with Mac-based software, which will work with the Airport Express. Extra credit to Steve if the software works
wthout the dongle in a limited capacity so it can be bundled with Airport Express, or works with the Firewire hub so
Apple can seize control of high-bandwidth media distribution within houses and cars.

Thanks again to everyone who entered! Expect another WWJD contest every once in a while Apple has seems to have something up its sleeve, which is never too soon.