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Miwi Game Console is Nothing Like a Wii, Really.
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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. Created by China’s Eittek Electronics, the 9800 MiWi video game system comes with a pair of wireless… |
May 12th, 2008
Cool Boy Game Console: Call the Copyright Cops
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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. From what I can tell, the Cool Boy… |
April 15th, 2008
Px-3600 Console Fakes Xbox, PS2, PS3, Wtf?
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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. Heck, it even has those classic… |
January 30th, 2008
Mini Polystation 3 Mocks Playstation 3
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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. While it may look slightly like a real PlayStation 3,… |
January 28th, 2008
Speakers Not Worth the Paper They’re Printed on
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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.… |
November 30th, 2007
Sound Activated Mini Dancing Monkeys
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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… |
September 20th, 2007
Nixie Clock Knocked Off in LCD
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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. About the only thing the Marksman LCD “Nixie-Style” Alarm Clock… |
September 9th, 2007
Lomo Diana Camera Produces Crummy (Artistic) Images
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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… |
August 30th, 2007
The Clone Wars: Xbox 360 Vs Playstation 2
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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. I’m not sure whether I like the X-Game 360 or the PowerStation 2 better, but these cheap packaging copies are clearly designed to fool… |
August 16th, 2007
Creative Zen Stone: Tiny Mp3 Player, Tiny Price
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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. The 1GB Zen Stone will retail for the amazingly low price of just $39.99 (roughly half the… |
May 3rd, 2007
