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control your tv with your watch; look like a dork

filed under: gadgets | home entertainment | timepieces

Remote Control Watch

This really attractive (ahem) digital watch comes with a remote control that you can use to control your TV. Because who wants to use a remote control when you can use this watch instead? It makes perfect sense!..

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posted: May 23rd, 2008 post a comment author: karen

miwi game console is nothing like a wii, really.

filed under: video games

Eittek 9800 MiWi Wii Fake

Here’s the latest, greatest, phoniest knock-off console to surface from China. While the MiWi video game system might steal some of its looks from the Nintendo Wii, that’s about where the similarities end…

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posted: May 12th, 2008 3 comments author: technabob

cool boy game console: call the copyright cops

filed under: mobile tech | video games

Cool Boy Portable Gaming Console

The latest gadget to crawl out from the seamy underbelly of the Chinese gaming underground. Not to be confused with the GameBoy, the Cool Boy is a portable game system that plays a variety of old school 8-bit and 16-bit console titles…

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posted: April 15th, 2008 8 comments author: technabob

px-3600 console fakes xbox, ps2, ps3, wtf?

filed under: strange and unusual | video games

PX-3600 Console Knock-Off

Just the other day, I showed you guys a really crummy PS3 knock-off, but I think this videogaming oddity surely trumps that one. This strange little console can’t decide whether it wants to be an Xbox, a PlayStation 2, 3, or something else altogether…

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posted: January 30th, 2008 3 comments author: technabob

mini polystation 3 mocks playstation 3

filed under: video games

PolyStation 3

You’ve gotta hand it to those cheap Chinese knock-off manufacturers. At least they attempt to keep up with the latest gaming consoles when they crank out their crap. Case in point, this awful PS3 copy known as the PolyStation 3…

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posted: January 28th, 2008 8 comments author: technabob

speakers not worth the paper they’re printed on

filed under: strange and unusual

Xenics Music Cube Cardboard Speakers

Now I’ve seen some cheap speakers in my days, but even the chintziest ones I’ve seen were at least made out of plastic. Not these. These ones are fabricated from thick paper stock.

Xenics Music Cube M speakers offer up some truly low-fidelity sound thanks to their flimsy cardboard construction…

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posted: November 30th, 2007 1 comment author: technabob

sound activated mini dancing monkeys

filed under: just plain fun

sound activated mini dancing monkeys

The title speaks for itself. Sound Activated Mini Dancing Monkeys has to be the best product name I’ve heard in a long time.

What more can you ask for than mini monkeys that dance along to sounds? I wonder what would happen if you got these guys together in a room with the Happy Monkey FM Radio?..

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posted: September 20th, 2007 3 comments author: technabob

nixie clock knocked off in lcd

filed under: design | timepieces

Nixie-like LCD Clock

For some reason, clock makers keep trying to bring back the magic of Nixie tubes without using any of the actual tubes. First, we had the LED “Nixie” Clock, and now we get this cheapo version that uses LCDs instead…

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posted: September 9th, 2007 post a comment author: technabob

lomo diana camera produces crummy (artistic) images

filed under: gadgets | retro

Lomo Diana Camera

The Diana camera was a really cheap plastic camera that was made by the Great Wall Plastic Factory in Hong Kong in the 1960s. At the time, it was just that, a piece of junk. But over the years artists have discovered that the crummy little camera’s flaws ended up producing some really dreamy imagery…

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posted: August 30th, 2007 6 comments author: technabob

the clone wars: xbox 360 vs playstation 2

filed under: video games

xbox 360,playstation,ps2,clone,fake,cheap

You’ve got to hand it to these junkmeisters for their creativity. Check out these slightly familiar video game consoles from a schlock shop down in Mexico…

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posted: August 16th, 2007 2 comments author: technabob

creative zen stone: tiny mp3 player, tiny price

filed under: media players

Creative Zen Stone

Creative today announced their latest MP3 player, the ZEN Stone. Aimed squarely between the eyes of Apple’s iPod Shuffle, the Stone is a small, flash-based player designed for the low-end of the market…

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posted: May 3rd, 2007 post a comment author: technabob

venturer shd7000: hd dvd on the cheap

filed under: home entertainment

Venturer SHD7000 HD DVD

With all the recent buzz about how Blu-ray is leading HD DVD in the high definition “format war,” there’s a new wildcard that could shake things up…

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posted: March 25th, 2007 post a comment author: technabob

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