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sci-phone: iphone clone runs java apps, still phony

filed under: media players | mobile tech

SciPhone iPhone Clone

Nope, your eyes aren’t fooling you. This isn’t an actual iPhone. It’s the latest in a long line of iPhone knock-offs to find its way to our shores from China. The SciPhone isn’t the first iPhone clone out there, but it’s the first one I’ve seen that claims to run native Java applications…

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posted: July 4th, 2008 stumble it! 1 comment author: technabob

fake tv scares off intruders, saves power

filed under: gadgets | strange and wonderful

FakeTV LED Television Simulator

Ever felt the need to leave a television on to make it look like somebody is home while you’re out of town? This quirky little invention does just one thing - simulate the effect of having left your TV turned on.

The $49 FakeTV uses an array of colored, flashing LEDs to create the illusion of the stroboscopic effect of a television…

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posted: May 20th, 2008 stumble it! 5 comments author: technabob

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 stumble it! 3 comments author: technabob

atari 2600 super mario brothers, sorta.

filed under: retro | video games

Super Mario Atari 2600

Ever wonder what a Mario game would have looked like if it came out on the Atari 2600 instead of the NES? The guys over at Geekstir dug up this great clip which shows off what that serious visual downgrade would have done for the game…

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posted: February 21st, 2008 stumble it! 4 comments author: technabob

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

filed under: strange and wonderful | 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 stumble it! 3 comments author: technabob

macbook air isn’t the thinnest apple

filed under: computing | just plain fun

macbook paper

On the eve of the in-store release of Apple’s sleek and sexy MacBook Air portable, it’s been revealed that an even thinner, tinier MacBook is in the works.

The MacBook Paper is about twice the thickness of a sheet of paper, and it too fits inside of an envelope…

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posted: January 28th, 2008 stumble it! 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 stumble it! 8 comments author: technabob

ifone is one phony iphone

filed under: media players | mobile tech

iFone - iPhone Knock-Off

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 stumble it! post a comment author: technabob

this clock is dyn-o-mite!

filed under: strange and wonderful | timepieces

Tick Tock Timebomb Clock by Regelman

Remember how the Mooninites from ATHF caused such a stir in Boston earlier this year? Can you imagine what those government fearmongers would do if they saw one of these clocks sitting on a shelf somewhere?

Designed by artist Mark A…

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posted: December 10th, 2007 stumble it! 3 comments author: technabob

playstation, xbox faked in 8-bits

filed under: retro | video games

Fake Chinese Gaming Systems

While these consoles from China may look slightly like their authentic counterparts, just one look under the hood, and you’ll see just how phony they really are…

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posted: December 3rd, 2007 stumble it! 4 comments author: technabob

clone wars: ipod nano knock-offs under $50

filed under: media players

DigitalRise iPod Nano Clone

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 stumble it! 4 comments author: technabob

what the iphone could have looked like

filed under: media players | mobile tech

Crystal iPod + iPhone Knock Off

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 stumble it! post a comment 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 stumble it! 2 comments author: technabob

wii-mote knock off spotted at wally world

filed under: video games

Wii Like Football Controller

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 stumble it! post a comment author: technabob

fake bomb in a box: taking things too far?

filed under: strange and wonderful

Fake Bomb Suitcase

This is really not a good idea, given the world we live in today. But leave it to the wacky gadget makers in Japan to release it anyway…

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posted: July 31st, 2007 stumble it! 4 comments author: technabob

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