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Fake Ear Earphone Tidy: Store Your Buds in Someone Else’s Ears

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I’m not sure about these things, on top of creeping me out, these fake ears double as an earphone caddy. They will allow you to store your earbuds without getting the cords all tangled up, which is good since that shortens the life of your wires.…

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April 2nd, 2012 by: Range

Bird Man Video Maker Admits It Was Fake

I want to get this off my chest off the top: You bird man, you bastard you! Now that that is out of the way, Dutch filmmaker and animator Floris Kaayk has admitted that video that went viral earlier this week of a man claiming to fly with bird-like wings was…

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March 23rd, 2012 by: Shane McGlaun

Taobao Offers Fake “Sent from my iPhone” Tag Service to Users: Why?

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Before anything else, let me just say that I have nothing against China. In fact, I’m Chinese myself, although I wasn’t born or raised there. That said, I’m sometimes just simply blown away by how people do business in China. Where else would you find a company that offers a…

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February 25th, 2012 by: Hazel Chua

Chinese State Police Seize iPhone Gas Stoves

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When you buy an iPhone stove, you want to make sure that it is the real deal. You don’t want to buy a knock-off. You want the real thing so it can run apps while you bake and… Wait a minute. iPhone stoves?…

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February 24th, 2012 by: Conner Flynn

Ferarri Knock-Off Cell Phones Defile the Ferrari Name

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You’ve got to hand it to the cheap Chinese gadget makers. Not only are they amazingly ballsy to release products which clearly bear the branding of products they haven’t licensed, but in this case, they’ve produced something that doesn’t even bear a slight resemblance to the product in question. While…

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February 9th, 2012 by: Technabob

Propia Hige Fake Beard: Look Like a Gangster or a Kung-Fu Master

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I know a lot of guys who wished they could grow beards but couldn’t, because it just wasn’t in their genes. Back in my immature old days, I used to prank them and draw on goatees and beards with a Sharpie whenever I caught them sleeping on their desks (for…

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February 7th, 2012 by: Hazel Chua

Buyers Sold Clay Instead of iPads

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How’d you like to plunk down $500 or more for a brand new iPad 2 to find out that you just bought yourself a box filled with clay? Apparently, at least ten customers were sold bogus boxes containing clay instead of iPads over the holidays from several Canadian electronic stores.…

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January 18th, 2012 by: Conner Flynn

Mole Kart for iPhone, It’s-a-Not-Me!

Nintendo’s lawyers just got more work thrown their way. Mole Kart is a Mario Kart… knock-off for iPhone that you will probably never see via the App Store. It doesn’t look half bad for a rip-off, but then again all you really have to do is throw in some mushrooms,

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January 12th, 2012 by: Conner Flynn

PS Vita Gets Cloned Before Launch

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Sony’s PS Vita hasn’t even had its official worldwide launch yet, and a clone has already been developed and launched in China. Begun, these clone wars have. The first PS Vita knock-off is called the Yinlips YDPG18. That rolls right off the tongue, no?…

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December 13th, 2011 by: Conner Flynn

Angry Birds Mate With PSP, Lay an Egg

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You’ve gotta hand it to schlock gadget merchants of China for their ability to completely laugh in the face of all intellectual property laws. Take, for example, this craptacular version of Angry Birds… which you can now buy.

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December 11th, 2011 by: Technabob

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