Chinese Paper Reports iPhone Worker Not Tortured, Yet Worker Implies Force Was Used

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 »

Why Apple Will Probably Keep Doing Business With Foxconn After iPhone Leak Death

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 »

New Chinese Missile Can Destroy US Supercarrier in One Go

Hooray for the Chinese, for they have developed a super cool new anti-ship ballistic missile with low radar signature and unpredictable flight path which can destroy US Navy Supercarriers on one go! Oh, wait. More »

This is the World's First Electronic Feng Shui Compass

I have no idea what a Feng Shui compass is supposed to do (even after reading that explanation), but I do know that this is the world's first electronic Feng Shui compass—and that's automatically awesome. Did the crazy people who invented Feng Shui 4,000 years ago imagine that their imaginary system of furniture placement and directional sitting would be adopted into something so...electronic? Would they be ashamed? Proud? Am I going to get killed like Bruce Lee for making fun of Feng Shui? Watch the video to find out. [Fortune Compass] More »

More Video Evidence of China's E-Waste Problem

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 »

Beijing Gets Tougher On Net Cafes With Mandatory Photos

All internet cafes in the main 14 city districts of Beijing have been mandated to install cameras to take pics of people as they enter the store, which are they uploaded to a city-wide database under watch of the Cultural Law Enforcement Taskforce. Shop owners have apparently said that their customers don't care, but apparently an online version of the People's Daily showed 72% respondents opposing it because it violated their rights. More »

Fake Chinese iPhone is Pretty Good Photocopy of the Real Deal

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 »

Chinese Farmer Flies Self-Built Airplane, Doesn't Wet Pants

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 300 feet 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]

Chinese Car Maker Invents Keyless Entry Watch

The problem with Chinese made cars in the year 2008 is that they're complete shit. It's true. Maybe in a few years they'll catch up to the Koreans, the Japanese, the Americans and the Germans, but for now they'll have to be satisfied with unlocking their cars with their watches. Who wouldn't? More »

New Apple Speakers (Not What You Think)

There has been more than enough Apple coverage recently, so here is some "Apple" coverage. These new Chinese "Apple" USB speakers won't ever replace the ill-fated iPod Hi-Fi, but they could possibly be useful as a travel accessory for that ultralight laptop of yours. [Product via 7gadgets]

HTC Touch Clone Has GPS, But Still Runs Windows Mobile

If we were a Chinese company that made knockoff phones, we probably wouldn't make a knockoff of the HTC Touch. Not that the phone is bad—it's somewhat usable—but putting Windows Mobile 5 on any phone when WM6 is the standard now is kind of a bad idea. However, we would follow in their footsteps and beef up hardware features to include a GPS, a 2-megapixel camera and fingerprint security. We just wouldn't put Windows Mobile 5 on it. [EC51 via Uber Gizmo]

Magic-Performing 1920s Chinese Automaton

It's not quite Asimo, but this Chinese magician automaton (read: crappy wooden robot) does one thing and one thing only: make other wooden automatons appear and disappear from containers (we don't count sporting a badass mustache as a thing). It's going to be auctioned off on October 28 at Skinner in Bolton, MA, if any of you are interested. Illusions, Michael. [Boing Boing]

A1Pro Keyboard Has Handwriting Pad With Character Recognition

This A1Pro keyboard isn't that useful for us, who can type just fine with the standard QWERTY keys, but is incredibly useful for, say, Chinese people who want to write characters the way they're used to writing on paper (typing takes a lot longer to learn). The keyboard looks normal on the left, but instead of a numpad, it has a smallish glowing tablet. If we ever wanted to write in Chinese—which we haven't done in about 14 years—we'd pick up one of these for $25.48. [Dealextreme via Crave via Gearfuse]

Wal-Mart Not Carrying $199 HD DVD Player This Christmas

Wal-Mart's just made a statement claiming that they have no plans to carry the Venturer $199 HD DVD in stores this holiday season. This is probably the first time Wal-Mart's turned down a cheap, Chinese- made solution in preference to name brands like Toshiba, but they do still offer Venturer DVD players on walmart.com. We still believe that the sub-$200 Venturer will be the tipping point that gets HD DVD into many homes this Christmas, as long as they can deploy the stock in time for people to actually find them in stores. [Video Business]

Nokia's Chinese Mooncakes

In celebration of the Chinese mid-Autumn Festival (or Moon Festival), Nokia's sanctioned moon cakes in the shape of their phones. Not only are these low-end Nokias delicious, they probably have much longer battery life, better sunlight visibility and honestly, a bigger feature set as well. If you know where to buy these, let us know! [Sosol via Spluch]

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Third Party iPhone Docks Have Bluetooth Charging

We're not sure what the big deal is on this cheapo Chinese iPhone dock having a slot for the iPhone's Bluetooth headset. The official one has this as well (no, not THE official one, the other official one that hasn't been announced. We think.), which we saw firsthand in a leak to us back in February. More »

Chinese Mousepad Does It All...Badly

I have an old lousy mousepad made in China that has a lousy calculator on it that I thought was pretty ridiculous. I was wrong. This; this here is ridiculous. No, it's ricockulous. More »

Amigo's Wireless Router Looks Exactly Like an Xbox 360

There's similar designs, and then there's Amigo's Wireless Router. The R622AG looks exactly like Microsoft's Xbox 360 no matter how you look at it. However, if you're really a fan of the design, then the fact that Aimgo's shoved in 802.11 a/b/g, four Ethernet ports and two USB ports for external hard drives/webcams/printers won't bother you one bit. More »

The iPhone Gets Cloned Again

Remember that Michael Keaton movie where he clones himself, but every time he makes a new one the clones get dumber and dumber? Well, these iPhone clones are kind of like that. The newest Chinese duplicate of Apple's prize phone is called the P168. Incidentally, in case you're wondering why it's called 168, the numbers 168 sounds phonetically similar to a "get rich" phrase when you pronounce in Chinese, kind of like how high school broads say "h8" in all their text messages to Travis. More »

Electronic Roll-up Go Board

Go may not be very popular here in the US, but that didn't stop me from actually taking a few lessons when I was a kid (ladies, quit knocking down my door). Plus, it didn't stop this guy from designing an electronic roll-up Go board. More »

Chinese Amycoll PS3 Cannot Possibly Plagiarize Any More

There's two types of "homage" that we usually see from Chinese vendors. First, the Meizu type, who grab the look and feel and some functionality from other products but make them into something pretty respectable. Then, there's the Amycoll PS3. More »

Wii Gets a Cooling Fan

With the PlayStation 3 and the Xbox 360 both having third party cooling systems, Nintendo's Wii was feeling a bit left out. After all, didn't it get hot as well? Fear not, Wiis, as a no-name Chinese company has released an add-on cooler for you, too. More »

Chinese Take Out Container Containers

It must be take out week this week, and if you didn't get enough of take out goodness with the Take Out Container lamps, these Take Out Container Containers should satisfy you in the moo goo gai pan. These are ceramic containers that you can actually use to hold stuff. Be it flowers, actual other take out containers, or soy sauce packets, these containers will, er, hold them. More »

Chinese Take Out Lamps Bring Class to Your Lonely Nights

If you're used to having your one-bedroom apartment littered with Chinese takeout boxes, then these Take Out Container Lamps should bring a bit of kitsch. They're available in broccoli green, eggplant purple, hot and spicy chicken red, vomit yellow, and cost only $14.95 each. More »

Chinese Mouse Tablet Looks Like the X-Men's Launchpad

Remember the basketball court that opens up and lets out the X-Jet in X-Men? That's exactly what this mouse looks like—except instead of a jet, a dragon comes out. It's too bad this dragon doesn't fly or shoot eye beams or throw exploding cards (we suppose it does have claws). It just acts as a tablet for users to scribble Chinese characters or other handwriting on. Plus, there's a stylus hidden there behind the left mouse button so you won't have to ask your butler to fetch one for you. More »

PQI Chinese New Year Inspired Credit Card Drive

Good news pigs! PQI is releasing a limited edition Fortune Pig Edition flash card drive. It's a 2GB flash drive in the shape of a credit card adorned with dragony-ish Chinese-y designs on the front to make you believe that storing your Firefox bookmarks is some kind of ancient Chinese secret. More »

The Chinese Make Their Own iPhone: ZTC 321

Continuing the Chinese tradition of mashing random numbers and letters into a product name, some Chinese company has made their own iPhone-esque phone called the ZTC 321. It has a 1.3 megapixel camera, MP3 playback, silver/metallic iPod-like backing, and a fake looking click-wheel. More »

WTF Alert: Chinese BenQ MusiQ Dog Tag Player Site Has Guy Posing In Front of WTC Ruins

These BenQ MusiQ Dog Tag MP3 players may be quite stylish, but wtf is up with their Chinese site? The splash page features some one gloved Michael Jackson guy standing in front of what looks like the WTC ruins. Yeah? Seemed like a good idea at the time? More »

China Makes a Sexy, Slutty Robot

We were wondering when the first sexy robot was actually going to be sexy. What with the Karaoke android, the robot monkey, the Chinese beauty robot, and Korea's Ever-1 android all looking a might less than sexy, our hopes for a Human-Robot mating ritual were at an all time low. No longer! More »