CES 2008: Part 2 Cheap Knockoffs Galore

This was actually one of the more enjoyable things to see at CES. Everything from fake roombas to fake nanos. Let’s take a look at some of them.
I don’t know what it is about companies that makes them think that making an almost exact replica of another product is the way to make a buck, and I honestly thought most of this was limited to the blackmarkets of China, etc, but it showed up in full force at CES. I actually enjoyed spotting them quite a bit. My first example should look a bit familiar to most of you…

nano CES 2008: Part 2 Cheap Knockoffs Galore

Nice fake nano. Overheard cost/unit to be something around 11GBP for a 2GB and 15GBP for 4GB. I’m sure the UI was wretched though.

shuffle CES 2008: Part 2 Cheap Knockoffs Galore

They do love their apple knockoffs at CES. There were *many* vendors with stuff like this.

More stuff continues on the next page where we look at some audio knockoffs…