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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…
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posted: May 12th, 2008
author: technabob
filed under: strange and unusual | video games
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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…
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posted: January 30th, 2008
author: technabob
filed under: video games
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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…
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posted: January 28th, 2008
author: technabob
filed under: media players | mobile tech
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They say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. But sometimes, a crummy copy is just a crummy copy. Take for example, this poor Taiwanese knock-off of the Apple iPhone. This thing makes no bones about its source of inspiration. Heck, they couldn’t even come up with an original name and just called it the iFone…
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posted: January 17th, 2008
author: technabob
filed under: media players | mobile tech | video games
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Here’s a suspicious looking mobile phone from China that manages to infringe on at least a couple of prominent brands in one feature-packed device.
When opened up, the ZTC 8898 mobile not only looks mimics of the looks of HTC’s QWERTY phones, it claims to “simulate” 8-bit NES games too…
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posted: December 19th, 2007
author: technabob
filed under: media players
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I’ll start out by saying this. Steve Jobs and company will no longer like you if you buy one of these. But for those of you who are too stingy to drop $149 to $199 on a real iPod Nano, here’s a cheap Chinese knock-off that’s a dead ringer for Apple’s chunky little 3rd-generation media player…
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posted: October 7th, 2007
author: technabob
filed under: media players | mobile tech
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Leave it to the cheap Chinese knock-off makers to produce this red headed stepchild of an iPod and a mobile phone. While it sort of looks like an iPod Classic, it slides open to reveal a phone. The phone bears more than a passing resemblance to some early iPhone concept images that were floating around the Web a while back…
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posted: September 25th, 2007
author: technabob
filed under: video games
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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…
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posted: August 16th, 2007
author: technabob
filed under: video games
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It was bound to happen sooner or later. Every cool looking electronic device, from the Apple iPhone to the Sony PSP eventually gets its case design copied, usually with some sort of unrelated junk stuffed under the hood of the doppelgänger. The latest victim of such identity theft is the immensely popular Nintendo Wii-mote controller…
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posted: August 16th, 2007
author: technabob
filed under: media players | mobile tech
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If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, the user interface designers over at Apple should be feeling pretty good about themselves these days. We’ve seen everything from knock-off devices, to an online screen smudge simulator, to PSP-based menu frontends…
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posted: July 29th, 2007
author: technabob
filed under: computing | retro | strange and unusual
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Check out this rare DELTA-C vintage Soviet computer (if you can call 1991 “vintage”) that I found over on eBay. It’s apparently a clone of the classic Sinclair ZX personal computer, but it sure looks like something you’d find down in a Dharma station on LOST…
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posted: March 19th, 2007
author: technabob
filed under: just plain fun | video games
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The guys over at Destructoid dug up this $10 beauty…
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posted: February 27th, 2007
author: technabob
filed under: media players | mobile tech
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Seems like every few days another mobile phone vendor tries to steal some thunder from Apple’s much anticipated iPhone. Samsung has now thrown their hat into the ring by throwing down with their own widescreen, touch-sensitive media phone…
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posted: February 8th, 2007
author: technabob
filed under: design | future tech | mobile tech
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This cool phone from Asus channels many of its good looks from Apple’s iPhone. The Asus Aura has a 3.9-inch touchscreen LCD, a 2 megapixel digital camera and a slim 6.9mm thick case design…
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posted: February 6th, 2007
author: technabob
filed under: computing | retro
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If you have fond memories of Berkeley’s After Dark screen saver, you can now relive them thanks to UNEASYsilence’s retro ToasterClone screen saver.
The screen saver is available for free in both OS X and Windows version here.
[via gizmodo]
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posted: October 20th, 2006
author: technabob