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Business
Foxconn Worker Had 16 iPhone Prototypes, Girlfriend Given Apple Laptop As Compensation
12:00AM Matt Buchanan | The NYT has more on the death of Sun Danyong, the Foxconn worker who apparently committed suicide after an iPhone prototype went missing. As compensation, his family has been paid about $US44,000, and his girlfriend received an Apple laptop. More »
Business
Foxconn iPhone Worker Sun Danyong’s Final Text Message
3:01AM Matt Buchanan | Chinese newspapers have been piecing together Foxconn worker Sun Danyong’s final hours, and claim to have recovered his final text message to his girlfriend, sent two hours before he died. It’s clear something horrible was happening to him: More »
Business
Chinese Paper Reports iPhone Worker Not Tortured, Told Foxconn To Search His House
2:44AM Matt Buchanan | The New Yorker reports Chinese paper Southern Daily claims they’ve seen surveillance footage of Sun Danyong’s interrogation by Foxconn, which show that he wasn’t locked up or tortured. It also says that Sun told Foxconn to search his house. More »
Business
Why Apple Will Probably Keep Doing Business With Foxconn After iPhone Leak Death
1:59AM Matt Buchanan | Whatever role iPhone builder Foxconn played in 25-year-old Sun Danyong’s death after a prototype iPhone he was entrusted with went missing, they will likely not pay the highest of prices: Losing Apple’s business. More »
Business
Perspective On The iPhone Suicide: Guy Died Over A F*&#ing PHONE
4:00AM Jason Chen | Let’s step back from the iPhone leak suicide for a minute and just think about the basics of what happened. A phone was lost. A guy was tortured. A guy killed himself or something. Over a fucking phone. More »
Random Stuff
In Lieu of Fireworks, Chinese Villagers Hurl Molten Iron at a Wall
7:50PM Elaine Chow | During the Lantern Festival last month, one village in China celebrated the same way they have for 500 years—by throwing molten iron at a wall to create showers of make-do fireworks. More »
Gadgets
More Video Evidence of China’s E-Waste Problem
9:20AM Jason Chen | We’ve posted about China’s e-waste problem before; a problem that stems from other countries needing to offload their trash and China being more than receptive because of good money to be had from salvaging. But what we haven’t seen much of is video. 60 Minutes tried recently to capture it, but were attacked from Chinese residents that wanted to keep their lucrative e-waste mining business intact. VWag found this longer Current documentary from 2007 that has longer footage—and angry citizens. See for yourself where that old 386 PC you threw away is going. [Current via Valleywag] More »
Phones
Fake Chinese iPhone is Pretty Good Photocopy of the Real Deal
5:56PM Gizmodo US Edition | A forum poster over at Macrumors has posted photos of a fake iPhone that’s close enough to the real hardware that you might believe it at first glance. Its proportions are off, the screen’s not wide-sized and there’s a mini-USB connector instead of an iPod dock one, but even the packaging is mocked-up to look Appleish. The UI is glossed-up to look very real, with some differences of course. And sure, you can imagine it would be not so sweet to operate… but you can’t argue with the look of the thing. Steve’s famous “start your photocopiers” call has gone a lot further than Redmond. Wonder how soon we’ll see photocopy iPhone 3Gs? [Macrumors] More »
Vehicles
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Chinese Farmer Flies Self-Built Aeroplane, Doesn’t Wet Pants
5:20AM Jason Chen | Seeing as we crapped ourselves twice from just watching this clip, it’s a wonder that this Chinese farmer manages to keep it together while flying this death-trap through the skies. The camera only points rearwards at the guy’s crotch, but that’s probably to show what gigantic balls this guy must have. The guy built this thing out of what looks like dirt and spare parts from broken aircraft, which is pretty much something we wouldn’t want to be riding up 100 metres in the air. This reminds us of Mr. Woo, the Chinese Robot Farmer, who built working robots out of stuff he’s found at the junk heap. [YouTube via MAKE] More »
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