Charel forwarded this information from Peek:

Sorry for the multiple mass mails but we got many thousands of requests and won't be able to read them all, even though we want to make sure everyone gets a reply of some kind.

We are busy with putting our Peek Cloud platform on all the new devices our customers are deploying. Since we introduced our gadget in 2008, lots of China Ecosystem players have been making similar devices built around the Mediatek platform. Missing ingredient is great connected apps, and that is what Peek is all about.

But we want to let you play with these devices if you want. So:

1.

WARNING Peek's platform is not easy to work on; playing around with Android or iPhone is actually 10x easier. The TI platform at the heart of Peek is the Nucleus OS from Mentor, written in C/C++, compiled with a pretty old c compiler. The Peek code that is on there and talks to the Peek servers, but you can just grab the chipset and do whatever you want. If you know what you are doing with ROMs, bootloaders, etc etc you could make some cool stuff. So you will fail unless you are experienced or extremely persistent.
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INSTRUCTIONS
3. visit http://www.peek.ly/blog/news/old-peeks-testbeds/
4. send a prepaid label attached back to address amol+devpeek@peek.ly with a from address of Peek, 33 w 17th street, ny ny 10011 to wherever you are. Make the subject Peek Label
5. if you are overseas, it will be hard for you to do this. sorry
6. we will drop a Peek, battery, charger in the envelope. About 0.5 lbs
7. we'll post some tools and code
8. you'll need to get a flashing cable (important and non-trivial)
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use http://peekhack.posterous.com as the hub for the community
10.

If you already sent a prepaid label, great. We have it. If you give up at some point or don't get a Peek soon, you can just cancel the label and get a refund from the carrier you used.
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We are going to go through every email with an attachment by hand and look at it. If there is reason to think the person who sent it is not skilled enough, we won't send you a Peek. Sorry but there aren't enough. So please include specifics on your background. To repeat, we will just quietly delete emails from folks who shouldn't be getting a device.
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GETTING 20 --> we are low at this point on individually boxed devices but we have a few thousand units in 20-unit casepacks that weight 20 lbs. They ship from our Dallas warehouse, so put that as the from address. The box is like 2 ft by 3 ft. If you send a label for a 20 lbs package, we will send you one of these BUT SUBJECT OF YOUR EMAIL SHOULD BE "PEEK CASEPACK LABEL" or we'll miss it.
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WE ARE NEARLY OUT. So if you send a label we may not get to send you one. We have quite a few casepacks left though.

And finally: DONT REPLY BY EMAIL. We won't reply. Post to peekhack.posterous.com with questions