If a 160GB solid-state disk just won’t do it for you, check out the latest offering from PQI. They’re bringing the game to a whole new level.

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If you’ve got a mouse with more buttons than you ever thought possible, a sweet gaming keyboard, but are still looking for that extra edge, you you might think about using your feet to do some of the work.

The Fragpedal Elite USB Gaming Footpedal is actually two pedals, each containing two buttons. That gives you a total of four buttons, but limitless possibilities. The buttons can be set to any key, but they take things a step further and allow you to set it so that how you press the buttons controls what key is triggered.

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Google announced today that they are working on bringing the applications that we know and love to us even when we’re offline. This is huge because the biggest downfall of Google’s applications is that they can only be used when you are connected to the internet.

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If you’re looking for a more unique flash drive, or possibly one that could be easily hidden in plain sight from would-be data thieves. Check out this Lego flash drive.

It seems that the people over at Zip Zip saw enough of those DIY projects where people were converting old Lego bricks into flash drives that they decided to mass produce them.

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Filed under: Handsets, Nokia, Symbian, GSM, GPRS, EDGE, UMTS

For a company that tends to concentrate on candybars and the occasional slider for its smartphone stable, a double shot of S60 flips in the American market is pretty much a bumper crop — and that’s exactly what Nokia’s delivering, officially announcing its own availability of the N75 and the N76 today. Notice we say “its own” availability; the N75 has been livin’ it up in AT&T’s lineup for a few weeks now but it’s been nigh impossible to get one contract-free from the carrier, so Nokia’s direct sale is a welcome one for folks that just want to buy one outright. Side by side, the N76 solidly whips its stablemate in the looks department, but bear in mind one critical fact: US-usable 3G data lurks underneath the N75′s hood. Pick up the N75 for $429.99 and the N76 for $499.99 starting today from Nokia (including the flagship stores in New York and Chicago) and its distributors.

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Filed under: Handsets, Others, NTT DoCoMo

While not quite a home theater in your pocket, the NTT DoCoMo F904i from Fujitsu (which, if you remember, was part of the FOMA 904i launch) at least rocks widescreen action, and that is half the battle won right there. Unveiled in colors including blanche, bordeaux, noir, and champagne — and sadly not apple green with envy for these great handsets from Japan — it sports a 3.2 megapixel cam, GPS services, finger-based biometric authentication, and a monster 432 X 240 screen. Of course the screen is really why we’re here — one-seg widescreen TV and all — and by simply spinning the display, any widescreen formatted show’s letterboxed bars disappear.

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We don’t support illegal activity here at SlashGear, however we’re more than happy to report industry-related news. Those of you that have been worried about your modded Xbox 360’s getting banned from Xbox live might want to check this out.

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Filed under: ATT, Apple

Ok, imagine this for a second. You’re Eric Schmidt — head of the most powerful internet company in the world, worth $4.8 billion dollars, member of Apple’s board of directors… and you don’t carry Apple’s new cellphone. So what’s a brother got to do to get a friggin iPhone? Check this:

Walt: “… Steve was flashing his iPhone around. I held it for 20 minutes.”
Eric mentions he hasn’t held it, and doesn’t have one.
Walt: “Your a member of Apple’s board!
Eric: “No…I’m still waiting for mine.”

So either Eric still has his iPhone in pocket-stealth mode, or Steve’s totally stiffing his bud down in Mountain View — we’re bummed either way.

P.S. -Walt asked about the Google phone, which Eric non-denial denied exists. Instead Eric just talked about phones, platforms, application layers, partnerships with KDDI, LG, Samsung, etc.

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Filed under: Samsung, Sprint-Nextel, Announcements

We’re giving folks one more opportunity to win Sprint’s double-sided wonder, the UpStage from Samsung. Music is the focus here with an entire side dedicated to a rather normal-looking (by DMP standards) music player, while the other gets a decidedly phone-centric focus. Amazingly, it all gets packed into a packaging measuring 9 millimeters thick (and change) and includes stereo Bluetooth and microSD expansion. Last chance at winning this puppy, so bring it on!

A few rules (yeah, there are always rules):

• You may only enter this specific contest once. If you enter this contest more than once you’ll be automatically disqualified and barred from all future giveaways. (Yes, we have robots that thoroughly check to ensure fairness.) In other words, be careful when commenting and don’t submit more than once, ok?
• You may enter our other EngMob relaunch contests, but you can’t win more than once; if you happen to win more than once (which is pretty unlikely, but still) we’ll ask you to choose just one of your prizes.
• The prize is open to US entrants only. Hey, it’s a US phone, you couldn’t do anything with it anyway.
• Contest is open until 11:59pm EDT on Thursday, June 7th.
• We’ll be shipping all the phones to winners once all the relaunch giveaway contests are over. (Yeah, we know it bites to have to wait, but dems the breaks!)

Thanks and good luck to everyone! Have a look at our other contests, too, before it’s too late: T-Mobile Wing, Sprint UpStage by Samsung (the first one), Nokia N75, Motorola T305, Samsung u620, (PRODUCT) RED MOTORAZR V3m for Sprint

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By Andrew Liszewski

Since the basic skateboard design doesn’t really vary from one company to another they tend to set themselves apart through the unique artwork seen on the underside of their decks. And if you thought today’s skateboard designs were cool just wait till you see these. A select group of 80 designers and artists were given the chance to take their traditional 2-D designs into the 3rd dimension.

Using a PC hooked up to an Epilog Legend 36EXT Laser the artist’s designs were burned into the 7 layers of plywood that typically make up a skateboard deck. The laser itself uses a lens and two mirrors to focus and shape the beam and thanks to a very fast pulse rate produces photo quality 1,200 dpi etchings.

The various designs can be seen at the Refill Seven art exhibit which recently debuted in Sydney and will hopefully be touring the world. But the best part is that each design will be burned on up to 50 boards and will be sold at the Reed Space Gallery in New York this fall for $500 a piece.

[ Designers Use Laser to Grind 3-D Art Into Skateboard Decks ] VIA [ Fosfor Gadgets ]

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