Computex offers Chinese gadget kitsch aplenty
By Donald Melanson 
posted June 6th 2009 5:03AM
posted June 6th 2009 5:03AM
Computex may finally be winding down, but with most of the big product announcements now out of the way, that only means there's a better chance for some of the hidden treasures of the show to shine, like this collection of Chinese-styled gadgets discovered by our pals at Engadget Chinese. That includes a stylish "Nah" box made of real china that actually contains a 1.5TB hard drive, a bamboo sheet that supposedly acts as a laptop cooling pad, a pair of vase-shaped speakers, various mice decorated with Chinese opera masks and, of course, no shortage of eye-catching USB drives. All of which are better demonstrated in pictures than words, so we recommend hitting up the gallery below.
I love the smell of lead paint in the morning
I bet you do.
That USB thumb drive looks Japanese not Chinese.
And that's exactly why it is Chinese... because it only, remotely, looks like something else! ;)
You've got quite a strange preference for smell in the morning but then again some even like the strange skunk smell. Like most people I or the normal prefer the smell of roasted moroccan mint machiado, expresso, ovaltine or even the scent of some tasty gummy shampoo or light perfume (light voc.s) in the morning...
I like to smell a woman in the morning... :)
same here but not those with halitosis...
Anyone know how to say "crapgadget" in Chinese?
save it for the KIRFs
i'd like a chairman mao logo instead of an apple on my laptop
Comrade Mao would never approve of your decadent, capitalist, bourgeois macbook.
Japanese based on Chinese~
yeah, its pronounced "product"
Does anyone know where one can get that bamboo mat? Regardless of its effect, it looks quite nice.
pier one imports....it's called a placemat.
So let me get this right.
For once, Engadget actually bothers to report stuff from China that's not a copy of something else and is actually amusing, and yet people still make up nonexistent "fault"s with them.
Then again, I suppose that China, Eastern Europe, and any other developing countries are really just places where we get cheap labor, pollute the environment (cuz hey, WE don't want to get cancer right?), and dump old outdated products en masse. So I guess this attitude is to be expected...