The Apple iPhone launches in the UK this Friday, and we’re already running a comp to win one. However, you may be happy with your Nokia/Samsung/LG/Crackberry/whatever smartphone, so to win one of five iPod Nanos instead, just do this simple task and indicate which UK or Irish town/city you live in. Remember to enter your correct email address when you comment so you can be contacted. The winning answer will be picked randomly from the entries, and announced, on Friday. The competition is open to anyone in the UK or Irish Republic.
Competition: Please write a Haiku containing the word Nano and post it in the comments.
Hint: It doesn’t have to rhyme.
P.S. Yes, I know this is a totally evil competition, but it was just too tempting, sorry.
Nano sleek colorful and fair
Like sunset in glass chrome and aluminum
My hands long for thee
I’m not living in the UK, therefore disqualified… But I am a Haiku fan…
Let me backup my world
Save me in a nutshell
Nano is my world
I’m not in the UK, but I felt like participating in this contest anyway
Techno logic time
Upgrading for new advances
Pray for the reboot
Techno logic time
Upgrading for nano advances
Pray for the reboot
It’s not an iPhone
But it has to do for now
I hope it’s 8 gig.
y halo thar! WANT!
i can has cheezburger too?
nano for teh win!
Nano, my desire
Is to hold you in my hand
and play sweet music
I load it and run
travel across land and sea
my nano and me
The nano is the one I want
The one I want is the nano
I just want the nano
a nano for me
to replace my 4g;
it died.
Reading, Berkshire
Christmas is coming
So many presents to buy
Nano means one less
Northampton, Northants
Three things are certain:
ipod, imac, and iphone.
Guess which one I want.
London, UK
no yoko ono
nor cher nor sonny bono,
are on my nano
I googled ‘Nano’;
It said a chap in Peru,
enjoys this surname.
Ben
London, UK
The Nano is a very small thing,
Apple make iphone’s, imac’s and ipods,
Steve Job has a small brain.
Birmingham, UK
The Nano is a very small thing,
Apple make iphone’s, imac’s and ipods,
Steve Jobs has a small brain.
Birmingham, UK
nano please
the voices grow louder
make them go away
Swansea (ish), UK
My fingers on it,
nano, stylish and unique.
Music keep playing.
London, UK
Small lyrical box.
Any colour will do
I just want you
London, UK
It is still four am,
I turn my red nano on.
I am happy again.
It is still four am,
I turn my red nano on.
I am happy again.
London, UK
Sometimes, petals fall.
Papers sing then the eyes sing.
Blue nano carouses.
Dundee, UK
Serious error.
All shortcuts have disappeared.
Screen. Mind. Both are blank.
Greenford (2nd capital of Poland), U.K.
hmm, although i actually forgot to put in the word Nano *gets coat*
Unsightly bulging pocket,
Of suit from Savile Row,
Nano to the rescue.
My Nano -
She enjoys Countdown.
Grandado prefers Catchphrase.
Reading (ish) UK
Unsightly bulging pocket,
Of suit from Savile Row,
Nano to the rescue.
Doh, London UK
stand on desk
my nano my nano wow.
happy i am
Edinburgh UK
Actually, can this be my entry instead?
stand on desk
my nano my nano wow.
salute you I do
Edinburgh UK
Bakerloo line down
Long and crowded journey home
Nano brings me peace
London, UK
the winter wind
sounds like music
on my shiny nano
Cheltenham, UK
It can please the bored
And entertain the dreary,
All I want is it.
Hinckley, UK
Earbuds in my ears,
Nano in my pocket,
I’m a sort of human socket!
London
Nano, Nano, Nano,
iPod, iPod
- Penrith, Cumbria, UK
shiny player
can’t wait
a nano second
Glasgow
These are seriously good people. I think we’re going to have to have another poetry competition some day.
Small white box
The nano plays songs
and makes tea
Basildon
Nano, my desire
Is to hold you in my hand
and play sweet music
Oops 4got - Bolton, UK
Make our pockets cry,
and ears of children die.
Ipod Nano opiate.
The new nano is fat
and uglier than the old
never mind, I want one
London
Take NANO on your way
Enjoy the better day
Wish to listen all the time
Nothing stops you, use your mind
My brother has one
Mum, dad, aunt, uncle and nan
O, I want one too
Kyle
(E-poet Laureate 1999)
old nano looks rubbish
new nano looks good
Can I have a new one please
Berkhamsted, UK
Christmas is coming
My pockets they are empty
Make my wife happy
well forgot to add location
London, UK
And again with location!
I load it and run
travel across land and sea
my nano and me
Liverpool, UK
I dream of a nano
My hands are shaking
Make my dream come true
London, UK
Hear the Nano play,
Magical technology,
Music to my ears!
London, UK.
Handy video
all your music on the move
and not an apple.
Herts, UK
Winter moon -
A nano between my fingers
Playing the sound of cicadas.
Pics, vids and music
In my pocket do you store
Nano, my Nano!
Torquay, UK
I’d love a nano
The iPod nano
Technology and design
In one small package
London, UK
I’d love a nano
To fit inside my handbag
Both are very small
London
My 4th gen iPod
It stutters on its last legs
I can has nano?
Knit cozy in blue
Patterns and samples ready
There’s a *new* nano?
oh nano so small
you are a gadget with bite
that is your tech crunch
said eve to adam
take a bite of this nano
evil temptress she!
Nailsworth, UK
Sitting in my palm
So sleak and squat and pretty
Nano you’re the best
Sitting in my palm
So sleak and squat and pretty
Nano you’re the best
Edinburgh, UK
Oh! not again
If now a real nano I gain
then your integrity you will regain
London UK
How I love the Nano
On it I can watch the Sopranos
and also listen to Bono
Nano playing in my pocket,
Engine roaring like a rocket,
Aidas driving for a croquet.
Northampton, UK
Friday, six oh two
love fulfilled yet unrequited
Apple of my i
Friday, six oh two
love fulfilled yet unrequited
Apple of my i
Bristol, UK
Hey Mike I want a
nano even if I have
to write a haiku
iPhone and iPod
Have nothing on the nano
Oh so thin and small.
or
Go nano nano
nano nano nano
go nano nano.
I really aint good at this at all.
Meh.
iPhone and iPod
Have nothing on the nano
Oh so thin and small.
or
Go nano nano
nano nano nano
go nano nano.
I really aint good at this at all.
Meh.
Bristol, UK
just hold on a nano second
dunstone and o2
unlimited data, do, do, do
love ipod Nano
fulfills all my ipod needs
soon broken
While balancing the
barbers, Nano approved
without pulling time
Courtesy of randomhaiku.com
London, UK
Hi sorry, In the previous one I had miscalculated the number of syllables!
Can you accept this as my definitive one? Thanks a lot!
It is still four am,
I turn my red nano on.
I’m happy again.
London, UK
Celebrity Nano?
“Nanoo nanoo” said Mork to Mindy
Nano Nano for me?
I’ve an iPhone now,
yet I want a Nano too.
What am I to do?
Canterbury, UK
Nano on trains play
Winter commutes hum gently,
To muffled iTunes
London, UK
I don’t know nano
But nano is knowing me
Nano nannooo nee
I don’t know nano
But nano is knowing me
Nano nannooo nee
Ben E, Portsmouth, England
I love my nano
but its now made obsolete
by iphone - pick me!
I want to win a
Nano, so I enter-ed
this competition
Write a poem or
a hundred and seventeen
pounds on Amazon?
Using a nano
Is like making love to a
beautiful woman
London, UK
A little video for everyone
A little podgy for some
No rounded edges = no love from me
the first video iPod Nano
at first I though it was fat, now I think its slim
if you don’t want one, you must be dim….
(excuse various bad puns throughout the poem!)
I love my nano
but its now made obsolete
by iphone - pick me!
Oh - I’m near Oxford
Nano-ing me, Na-
-knowing you, aha! there is
nothing i can do
…..ouch… inspired by Ben (and Abba)
Alone, on the web,
drops of sensitivity
embrace a nano
Glass balls and glowing lights.
Dead tree in living room.
Killed to hold Nano
Gently bold abrupt
People wait icily
for Apple nano
who will win at last
a lovely next gen nano
is it me or not?
I’m in the UK and wondering when you’ll post the winners. Go on, or Tom Smith might write more
Ha ha ha ha ha!
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!
ha nano ha ha!
…only kidding, as if I’d write another… I just saw that there were only sixty odd messages and thought blimey, a 1 in 60 chance is better than most raffles…
…and if I wrote 60 haikus, that might increase my chances to 1 in 2… maths has never been my strong point but that sounds about right…
ahem…
iPhone minus phone?
Why would you want one I think?
Don’t really Nano
That last one is SO your best mind you….
Why thank you, I’m just
getting into my stride and
I have to go out
(Thank one doesn’t have the word “Nano” in…)
Life in a colourful world,
black and white vision
in the nanometer spectrum
Hi everybody. So thanks to everyone for entering and I’m happy to announce the winners (and their haikus) are below. They’ll be contacted shortly. As this was such a fun competition I think you’ll be seeing Haiku comments on TechCrunch again some day…
Emma:
I love my nano
but its now made obsolete
by iphone - pick me!
Diane:
Sometimes, petals fall.
Papers sing then the eyes sing.
Blue nano carouses.
Imran:
The Nano is a very small thing,
Apple make iphone’s, imac’s and ipods,
Steve Jobs has a small brain.
Sara:
It is still four am,
I turn my red nano on.
I am happy again.
Danny:
a nano for me
to replace my 4g;
it died.
Bugger! No prize… sigh.
Strange but the winner’s names have
have two syllables
it IS me what joy
a new video nano
I like techcrunch lots
Oh god somebody stop me. I do think Tom deserves something for effort - not my ipod though.
Please call the police
Tom Smith has been nano-jacked
for having no town
… I loved Tom’s Nov 9th, 7:05pm one … think I’ll use it as the verse in my xmas cards this year
York, UK