Enter Now: iLounge Holiday Buyers’ Guide Contests

ALL CONTESTS ARE NOW CLOSED FOR JUDGING.

Our past iPod design contests have produced some incredible ideas and pieces of art – because of iLounge readers, this was the first place to show off a conceptual “iPod nano,” and there have been hundreds of cool “future iPod” concepts submitted to our galleries. This time, we wanted to try something a little different. Use your creativity and other skills to design the “ultimate iPod accessory.” We will pick three total winners, one from each of these categories, with the Grand Prize winner taking home the “Ultimate iPod Accessory Pack” from Oregon Scientific and Belkin.

Best Creative Entry: Come up with a smart iPod add-on that is original and worthwhile.

Best Realistic/Practical Entry: Create an iPod add-on that looks really sharp and would be very likely to be produced.

Best Funny Entry: Create an iPod add-on that makes people laugh. Use good taste.

Restrictions: Your artwork must be original, and cannot be copied from another source. You may use computer-assisted art tools, Photoshop, hand drawings, or whatever other method you choose to create a 2-D image in JPEG format for submission to us, but the artwork you submit must be original.

How to Enter: Submit your design in The Ultimate iPod Accessory album.

Check out the newest entries. Can you do better

In honor of Apple’s release of black- and white-bodied iPod nanos, iLounge is holding a black-and-white photo contest.

We will give away two iPod nanos to the submitters of the top two photos we select. Each winner may select the color of the nano he or she wins.

The rules for this contest are very simple: your photograph must be original, must include or in some smart way reference an iPod, and must be in black and white. You may choose to use people, other objects, and/or a background, but you may not digitally edit the photo in any way other than to crop and/or adjust its brightness and contrast.