Knockoffs

Gadgets

This Knockoff Watch Is So Good, It Won An Award

5:20PM December 14, 2011 | Andrew Tarantola

If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, this falsified Fortis watch is pure adulation. Bet you can’t spot the fake. More »

Gadgets

Two Stores Selling Knock-Off Apple Gadgets Under Attack By Apple

10:15PM August 19, 2011 | Kat Hannaford

China’s not the only country that has a problem with counterfeit Apple products — even NYC is plagued with knock-off iStuff, according to Reuters. The Queens area of New York City has seen two stores, Apple Story and Fun Zone, close. More »

Geek Out

This Fake Chinese IKEA Store Might Be Better Than The Real IKEA

7:00PM August 11, 2011 | Casey Chan

After seeing the fake Apple Chinese store, I was pretty much prepared to see a knockoff store of anything. Who could they steal from next? Microsoft? Dell kiosks? Discount stores? Nope. Instead, they copied the pride (or bane) of Sweden: IKEA. More »

Computing

Real Apple Store Fixes Fake MacBook Air

10:52AM July 29, 2011 | Kelly Hodgkins

What happens when you’re in China and your MacBook Air knockoff breaks down? You bring it to the Genius Bar of an Apple Store, of course. And what’ll they do? They’ll fix it out of the kindness of their hearts. More »

Computing

Samsung Kills Knock-Off Smart Cover, Because They Would Never Copy Stuff From Apple

11:38PM July 19, 2011 | Casey Chan

Turns out, Samsung had nothing to do with the knockoff Smart Cover. According to them, the accessory maker that made it, Anymode, didn’t receive official approval from Samsung to do so. And plus, Samsung would never steal from Apple. More »

Mobile

Knockoff Phone Electrocutes And Kills A Man

2:32AM June 17, 2011 | Casey Chan

In a horrifically sad story, Dhanji Damor, a 25-year-old man in India, was electrocuted when he used a “shanzai cell phone” while it was charging. Shanzai means it’s a knockoff, an imitation, a fake made in China. More »

Computing

It’s Not An Apple, It’s An Umbrella

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3:45PM June 2, 2011 | Seamus Byrne

One stand at Computex had two of the most delicious Apple rip offs you’re ever likely to see. One Android tablet built and skinned to look like the iPad’s evil twin, and one aluminium laptop range complete with the cut away logo on the back of the monitor. But it’s OK. That’s an umbrella, so it’s totes different. More »

Computing

Unsurprisingly, Chinese iPad Knockoffs Are Here

8:00AM April 27, 2010 | Adam Frucci

With the iPad still not available overseas and demand high, it’s not too surprising that there are knockoffs available in Shenzhen already. And hey, this one has three USB ports! Better than the original, amirite? More »

Mobile

“Leady Apple” Phone Shows Off Chinese iPhone Knockoff Industry’s Softer Side

6:30AM April 19, 2010 | Jack Loftus

Is this yet another iPhone knockoff, a cosmetics mirror, or some super-secret prototype that proves Apple is getting into the networked birth control case design industry? Shoot, how about all three? More »

Apple Finally Gets Its Patent For That “iPhone” Thing

3:31AM April 14, 2010 | John Herrman

A design patent, to be exact, meaning: You can’t make a brazen copy of the iPhone and iPod Touch’s “ornamental design”, or else you’ll get sued to death. Of course, this isn’t just about crude knockoffs. More »