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Samsung and the Financial Times have recently launched a pretty interesting competition that offers participants the chance to win a trip to Sammy’s headquarters in South Korea, and a brand new Samsung Jet phone.

Unlike many other competitions, this one is open to anyone who is over the age of 18, regardless of his or her country.

To enter the competition, you must write a short paragraph (of 200 to 300 words) about “the key features of the phone of the future”.

You can send the paragraph alongside your name and contact details by e-mail, to digitalbusiness@ft.com (with “FT-Samsung Competition” in the subject field), or by post – to FT-Samsung Competition, Digital Business, Financial Times, One Southwark Bridge, London SE1 9HL.

The first prize consists of a Samsung Jet phone plus a 4-day trip to Seoul, South Korea – including a visit to Samsung’s headquarters and 4 nights accommodation in a 4 star hotel. There are also two runner-up prizes: a Samsung Jet each.

Unfortunately, the entries must be received before Wednesday, July 8, 2009, 5PM GMT (that’s tomorrow), so you’ll have to hurry if you want to participate.

The Terms & Conditions of the competition can be found on Financial Times’ website.

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It’s been a mystery for ages, but at long last, it seems a simple DIYer has found a solution. We all know that the best beers are the ones brewed at home, but after a given amount of “test sips,” things can easily get a little out of control. In order to simplify the homebrewing process, the brilliant BrewTroller was concocted during a short stint with sobriety. In essence, the system utilizes a Sanguino microcontroller platform which was inspired by the tried-and-true Arduino in order to give brewers complete control over temperature and the like. When connected to a simple menu-driven display, it removes the need to bang out a paragraph of code while tipsy in order to tweak the flavor ever so slightly. Hit up the read link to have a look at the progress, but make sure you strap on those Beer Goggles first.

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Remember wild-man McNamee’s predictions last week of death to the iPhone and all sorts of other Pre-related wonderment? We read and we chuckled and we moved on, but someone took his statements a little more seriously — Palm. Yes, the company Roger was talking up, the company in which his firm Elevation Partners owns a particularly large stake, submitted a document to the SEC that summarily disputes all of his hyperactive talking points. It’s full of facts and figures and is completely dry, but, like an episode of Yes Minister, is also full of comedic brilliance. Here’s the company’s reaction to our favorite bit, about the death of the iPhone:

The statement in the second paragraph of the article that “not one” person who bought an Apple, Inc. iPhone on the first shipment date “will still be using an iPhone a month” after the two-year anniversary of that day is an exaggerated prediction of consumer behavior pattern and is withdrawn.

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I loved Transformers just as much as the next kid when I was in school. I had a pretty sweet Optimus Prime and a few others, but not the massive collections that some people did. Well if you’re obsessive about your robots in disguise, here’s a collectible that you might not have gotten your hands on when it debuted back in 1983.

This very dated timepiece is more than meets the eye. As you’ve no doubt discerned from the previous paragraph, it is really a Transformer. With a few twists here and turns there, you’ve got yourself a tiny robot ready to kick some ass (very tiny ass). Back in 1983 there was a transforming watch called Kronoform. I believe we covered this a few years back. Well it seems that Takara Tomy has decided to re-release this watch in two versions. One is a Cybertron Autoceptor and the other a Destron Time Limit. You can pick these up sometime in August for just shy of $300.

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