The Chinese city of Shenzhen used to be a river town, now it’s home to 13 million people and responsible for much of the electronic knock-offs you see around town. Here are some of the most obvious examples I spotted at CES.
Image: Wikipedia
Don’t get me wrong, I love Chinese innovators, but these are just silly.
Unlike Apple, I love to see competition in the tablet space. And I don’t think every black square is an iPad rip off. However, this “media tablet” family was clearly inspired by Cupertino in the worst possible way.
This is not inspired by the Dyson Air Multiplier. At all. Yup.
iRobot Roomba vacuum, anyone? You’re mistaken. This is the Xrobot. See the difference?
Introducing iSports. Knock-off Nintendo Wii and Microsoft Kinect “game systems” coming to a dodgy market near you…
Timmahh
Friday, January 20, 2012 at 4:13 PMThey don’t just make fakes though, I have bought a couple of media players from them which were at the very least capable and at best, Western Digital killers. Have a look at the Noontek V8 media players! My Noontec V8 NAS can take up to 3tb HDD, has cutting edge specs and the latest VOD Chipset. It still needs some tweaks in the F/W but I’ll never look back. There isn’t a non Chinese Media Player that can match them.
TT
Friday, January 20, 2012 at 4:24 PMMaybe that Noontec V8 NAS is something like this Samsung HDD…
http://blog.jitbit.com/2011/04/chinese-magic-drive.html
Timmahh
Friday, January 20, 2012 at 5:43 PMErm.. no mate I think I would have noticed if it was a shonky! This thing outclasses anything else on the market that I’ve tried, and I’ve tried a few and returned them because they were more like that shonky you’re talking about!
Andrew
Friday, January 20, 2012 at 4:55 PMI think its funny that we have big companies coming after us for streaming a movie off a shoddy site, and yet the Chinese industries can get away with this. Its probably just too much bother to go after people with nuclear weapons :P
Tas
Saturday, January 21, 2012 at 4:26 PMYou know, I suppose I’d feel sorry for Dyson getting it’s Air Multiplier ripped off if the original had a less agricultural motor and wasn’t disgracefully overpriced…
Troy
Tuesday, January 24, 2012 at 11:19 PMI hate these chinese ripoffs, how do they not get in trouble for it?