Now there’s another Chinese person who’s going to extremes just to get Apple’s sought-after technology, but this time, it’s a girl and she’s giving up something that’s supposed to mean something: her virginity.

The young Chinese girl put up a status update on Weibo, which is China’s version of Twitter, that it was her “dream to own an iPhone 4 but her father won’t let her get one.” Now that sounds like something a typical teenager would talk about. However, her next post is where things get sadly bizarre.

The girl attached a photo with her next tweet, posting some basic personal information and saying that was willing to “sell her virginity to anyone that buys her an iPhone 4.”

A lot of people responded to her post negatively, telling her that the smartphone wasn’t worth giving up her virginity. Others simply spammed her with replies talking about iPhone 5 rumors.

I don’t have an iPad 2 and while I do want one, I don’t think it’s worth giving up a kidney for, and certainly not worth selling one’s virginity for a lowly iPhone 4. I think news like this that shows just how deep-rooted materialism is in people nowadays is just sad.

And as an afterthought, I wonder what her dad would say if he knew what she tweeted.

[via BGR via Dvice]

At first glance, you might think these little guys are Google Android mascots, but you’d be wrong. Look carefully, and you’ll notice that despite their striking resemblance to Google’s mascot, these guys seem to work for a company called “Gotge”, or is it “Gorge”? Maybe just “Go-ge”. Whichever it is, this is clearly not official Google merch.

But that doesn’t make these little speakers any less cute. Each one had a small full-range driver built into the bottom, and colorful LEDs around its neck which light up when the music is playing. Pushing the ‘droid’s head starts and stops the music, and turning it left or right adjusts the volume.

If you look carefully on the back, you’ll see a slot for a T-Flash(MicroSD) card, and the Android lookalike can play MP3 audio as well as connect to your PC or media player through its 3.5mm jack. There’s also a mini-USB port for battery charging or transferring data to the memory card. And if that’s not enough, they also have an FM radio built-in.

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They’re available over at Now!Supplier for $29.90 (USD) each, but I can’t figure out how to pick between colors on their website. If you want to be sure you get the correct one, I suggest you check out ChinaGrabber, who offers them in individually in either green or copper for a few dollars more.

[via Ubergizmo and M8Cool]

The Ouku M98A tablet [Chinese] sells for just $124.99(USD) over at Lightinthebox and it runs Android 2.1. It can surf the web and download apps from the Android Market. The screen has 800×480 resolution and is 7-inches wide. Keep in mind that it’s only got a resistive touchscreen, so you won’t be able to do multitouch gestures. Other features include WiFi, support for email, integrated speakers, and a G-sensor.

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The front-facing camera on the tablet is a 0.3MP unit. The battery is 1620mAh and it is good for 4-5 hours of continuous use. It ships with just 4GB of storage, but that can be expanded using a TF (microSD) memory card to 16GB. Contrary to the specs at Lightinthebox, Ouku lists the tablet with a 600MHz ARM 11 CPU and Rockchip 2818 media decoder, not the ARM 9, which is probably why it can support 720p video playback. All in all, this thing doesn’t look too bad for just north of $100 bucks.

The compact system comes with emulators for the Super Nintendo, NES, Sega Genesis, Game Boy Color, and Game Boy Advance, but if it’s anything like the other portable emulators out there, you can bet there will be more emulators, and probably a Linux build for it at some point. It’s also got a nice 3.5″ screen – making it significantly larger than, say, the Dingoo A320.

In addition to classic gameplay, the portable can play 8 different video file formats and 10 different audio formats, and offers a microSD card slot for expansion beyond the 4GB internal memory. It’s also got a video out, so you can connect it to your TV and play classic games on the big screen.

You can get your hands on the Letcool portable over at Chinavasion for $71.25 (USD). If you buy one, let us know how well it works!

The YD-965 Dot Matrix certainly steals its looks from the DS Lite, but on further inspection you’ll notice that it’s really a piece of junk. For starters, you’ll notice the top screen is black and white with big blocky pixels, and the game cartridges themselves feature some decidedly low-tech printed backgrounds that slide behind the LCD screen to provide a colored backdrop.

And that bottom screen – well it’s not even a screen at all – it’s a sticker with a picture on it!. Frankly, the game on the sticker looks much more exciting than the five game cartridges that come with the system: Tank, King Boxing, The Wall, Star War and Risk King.

Speaking of Risk-King, that’s the most appropriate name for a game on this system, as you will definitely be Risk-King $11 dollars of your hard-earned money if you order one of these.

The E-Time Game Play Controller ($22 USD) may look like a standalone game controller, but it’s actually a self-contained SEGA Mega Drive/Genesis console. Just load your SEGA MD ROMs onto an SD memory card, plug it into the slot on the controller, and you’ll be playing Sonic, Golden Axe and your other favorite 16-bit titles on your TV. The battery-operated controller even can save games in progress if the original title supports it. You can even plug in a second controller with a standard Mega Drive/Genesis connector.

Keep in mind that this is not an officially-licensed SEGA device – just another one of those cheap Chinese gadgets that might not live up to its promises, so don’t blame me if it doesn’t play all of your ROMs. And anyhow, what are you doing with those ROMs anyway? As long as it plays Zombies Ate My Neighbors, I’m fine.

[E-Time Game Discussion Board]

Doing its best impression of the MacBook Air, this clone is designed to run Windows, not MacOS (check out the Windows key on the keyboard!) The machine features a “full metal jacket” case, and an 11-inch LCD screen (compared to the MacBook Air’s 13-incher).

While the fake Air is a bit thicker than the real deal, it also weighs less (1.33kg vs. 1.36kg for the MacBook Air). It runs on a lowly Intel Atom 1.6GHz CPU, with 1GB of DDR2 RAM, and has a 160GB hard drive built in – so it’s more like a netbook than a full-powered laptop. From the pics above, it actually doesn’t look half bad, but once you check it out from the side, it definitely doesn’t have the same precision engineering of the real Air.

The unbranded notebook PC is expected to hit the streets of China this September for a retail price around $290 (USD), which means you could buy yourself 5 of these for the same price as the cheapest MacBook Air out there. Maybe you could turn one of these into a Hackintosh and then the circle of life would be complete.

[Shanzai.com via Engadget via Cult of Mac]

This knock-off – from a company called “Wefound” – is a dead ringer for the Kindle 2. From the slim white case to the 6-inch screen, to its nubby little keyboard, the Wefound E-Book reader is sure to raise the hackles of Amazon’s legal team. Other than the fact that the default character set is Chinese, and the square navigation joystick has been replaced with a round one, it looks nearly identical to the Kindle 2. (Although I’m sure under the hood, it’s not).

Just like the Kindle 2, the Wefound claims it will be able to download books over a cellular connection (you need to provide your own SIM card). They plan on releasing their E-Book reader by the end of the year in Japan for about $210 (USD). Me I’d rather plunk down an extra $90 bucks and get the real deal.

[via E-Ink Info]

It’s just a tiny bit longer than a AA battery (2.64 inches long) and weight just 55 grams. Amazingly, the phone is quite full-featured, including a 1.3 megapixel digital camera, a touchscreen with handwriting recognition (chinese only at present,) an MP3 player and a 138mb of onboard storage. The phone works supports GSM networks and GPRS data transmission and has a WAP browser too.

[via Phonedaily via NewLaunches ]

The Buddha Machine is said to be the “anti-ipod.” The device only plays nine ambient drone tracks (from 2 to 42 seconds in length) over and over and over. The device is based on the work of China’s FM3, a minimalist electronic musical act.