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Sprint has announced a brand new cellphone for the masses Stateside, where you will be able to pick yet another touchscreen device that also sports a full slide out QWERTY keyboard if you’re a messaging and email fiend – we’re talking about the the Samsung Seek, also known as the Samsung M350 if model numbers are your cup of tea. This 3G phone will come in a trio of color options alongside an easy-to-use, customizable menu system that provides instant access to their favorite features and applications.

Basically, this is a phone that aims to bring the best of messaging features as well as multimedia favorites in a compact and stylish design, where you can choose from Cool Blue and Scarlet Red colors for a mere $29.99, with of course, the now customary new two-year service agreement and this also after a $50 mail-in rebate. For those who can wait until June 6th, you will then be able to pick it up in Fantasy Pink. Read the rest of this entry »

If you’re a coffee addict, then you’ve gone through your fair shar of disposable coffee cups. Now instead of trashing them constantly and contributing to the local dump’s size, you can use those cups to add a little bit of lighting in your home. Then after the project is finished you’ll have a very modern looking disco ball. To get one you’ll just have to follow the Instructables tutorial and make your own.

They suggest using the plain cheap coffee cups that you see most often in order to construct the light. You’ll actually need a grand total of 300 of the cups. Technically the creator caved and just bought the cups, but recycling would work just as well. You”ll also need a stapler, electric wire with socket, energy efficient lamp, pinbolds, big washer, small washer, a heatsource and a sharp metal pen. All together none of that should cost you a whole lot of money.

SSDs seem to be all the rage these days, especially when notebooks are getting smaller and lighter than ever before, requiring something which will shrink in size equally to keep up with the times. Among the advantages SSDs have over regular hard drives would be its quietness as well as speed, and with no moving parts to worry about, you also lower the risk of having it die on you when you’re on the road during a particularly bumpy ride. G.

Skill has rolled out its Phoenix SATA II 2.5” Solid State Drive recently that features the latest ultra-high performance SandForce SF-1200 controller, capable of offering 280MB/s and 270MB/s of read and write speeds, respectively, coming in 50GB, 100GB and 200GB denominations. No idea on pricing or availability, but you will get a 2-year warranty with each purchase. Have you jumped aboard the SSD bandwagon just yet?

Love capturing photos of others discreetly? Then why not do it with the MINOX Digital Spy Cam DSC Silver, which is the next generation of spy cameras that has taken on a digital slant. Coming in a silver metal finish, you get a 1.5? display to preview shots that you have taken, while storing images on a microSD memory card slot (up to 16GB worth).

Capable of shooting 5.1-megapixel photos, this spy camera is also equipped with an external flash module when the situation calls for it. Not only that, it also lets you capture images of important and sensitive documents from as near as 19.5?, and as you can see above, it is small enough without calling attention to it whenever you call it into action. This could be your starting point of a new gossip blog, eh?