iPod Touch Giveaway!!!

Is that a countertop in your pocket?

The new mySurface App for iPhone is Solid…surface, that is… solid surface, as in Corian and Zodiaq.

What It Does

Okay, imagine this… you’re out for a night on the town. You’re all decked out and feeling gooood. The weather is beautiful and things just couldn’t be better as you walk into a new restaurant that just opened. You’ve somehow managed to put that kitchen remodel to the back of your mind for a little while.

But then, BAM!You see the PERFECT counter on the bar in the beautifully decorated restaurant. You’ve been scouring magazines and websites for weeks trying to figure out what you want and here it is! How will you get the same thing? What will you do?

mySurface to the Rescue

No problem, just whip out your iPhone, open up mySurface, and quickly find the right color range. A few seconds later, you’ve found the exact product. You save it to your favorites, order it the next week, and live happily ever after. Just one more way your iPhone will save your life this week!

Dramatic? Of course… that’s the way, uh huh, uh huh, I like it.But it’s also realistic! I know from experience that design ideas, the proverbial lightbulb above your head, can happen anywhere. Too often, those inspired ideas aren’t captured. And that’s a crying shame! At least with countertops and other solid surface applications (walls, showers…) this won’t happen anymore!

I’ll show you how it works!

Say you’re enjoying a nice cup of coffee while flipping through the latest issue of Florida Design Magazineand thinking how crazy some people let themselves act on their blogs. You come across a kitchen you love and the countertop is perfect…

It looks like there are some little stones in this counter, so you head to the Zodiaq section ofmySurface…

Using the color slide bar on the right (or simply scrolling the screen) you narrow it down. Wow, this may be it… (and you think “how cool is this!”)

Just in case the color is off, you better look a little more. Save your choices to your favorites with the click of a button.

Go ahead and use the “share” button to email these selections to your designer, contractor, spouse, banker..whatever… and you’re in high cotton! Going to be a great day!

The product lines of both Corian and Zodiaq are represented in this app and DuPont essentially invented the idea of Solid Surface materials more than 40 years ago! Can you believe that Corian has been around for 40 years? The stuff lasts forever, so I bet the original installs still look good, and the colors might be coming back by now!

Other Ways to Use the iPod

Aside from blaring music in your ears to drown out the constant scream of the table saw, the iTunes App Store has some other great applications available for free. Here are a couple that would help me!

Carpenters Helper Lite – a free version of a complex construction calculator. Figure out square yards, cubic yards, square feet, convert feet to inches and inches to yards… whatever floats your boat. A great tool.

The Weather Channel- I can’t tell you how many times I’ve called my wife from a jobsite and asked her to pull-up the weather radar on the computer. “Okay, honey, what I need you to tell me is EXACTLY what time it will rain on this house withno roof!” With a radar in my pocket, I can save her that emotional anguish.

Colors Lite – If you need to draw a sketch and no pencil, paper, or scraps of 2×4 are available, you can use this app just like a “Paint” type program to illustrate your thought. Also useful in psychoanalysis of potential contractors. Give them the phone, have them draw whatever comes to mind and see what you get! If it’s an armored car or a butcher knife, move on.

Alas The Giveaway!

DuPont is excited about the possibilities of this new tool! So much so that they sent me an iPod to test it out and they’re offering to give one away to you (also on other sites which I’ll list!). This is a brand new iPod Touch and if you haven’t tried one of these yet all I can say is that you’ll be hooked from day one!

Three Chances To Win

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We’ll leave this open for entries through Friday October 16th and announce the winner on Saturday.

OH! and, as I said, this isn’t the only iPod giveaway in town, check out  Living Locurto and Hooked On Houses for more chances to win.

Make sure you leave a separate comment for each entry method!  I’ll base the drawing off the comments, so one comment is only one entry even if you did all three things.

Comments are closed… thanks to all for participating!  Winner will be announced on Saturday!