From Grasshopper.com, the obvious swag. I don’t know what the company does, and I’m not about to eat the bugs. The package says on it: “Yes, these are real grasshoppers. They’re even approved by the FDA of Thailand.” Oddly, that doesn’t help.
At the Chi.mp TechCrunch 50 Happy Hour we received some swag and beta invite codes to their service! Here we have men’s and women’s t-shirts, and Chi.mp trucker hats:
To win the items above and beta invite codes, check the free swag contest page!
MySpace comic books “color magic frame” sunglasses, USB bracelet, glowing cup, and pin were all given away at the MySpace/TechCrunch Launch Party at Mezzanine. The party was also DJ’d by Samantha Ronson.
Microsoft adCenter Labs playing card kit from the Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining Conference 2008. KDD is a Data Mining academic and industrial research conference. Microsoft adCenter was a sponsor and handed out playing cards since the conference was held in Las Vegas.
I snagged a few extra Google Chrome comic books at the press conference today. Wonder what I can get for them on eBay. (Kidding…)
Zoom Zoom! Omniture handed out miniature green RC race cars at SES San Jose. Bonus - they handed out cars in both the 49 MHz and 27 MHz frequency range, so by scoring one of each type, office desktop racing could ensue.
Inside the plastic suitcase press kit from the Plantronics/Dolby gaming audio event:
AMD gave out hand-rolled cigars, cigar cutters and matches at their Cinema 2.0 Experience after-party.
Silly swag from Zendesk (outsourced customer service): The Buddha Machine. It looks like an old transistor radio, but really it’s just a box that plays looping tracks of relaxing drones and chimes. Super-bonus: It has static!
