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Apple iPad 2 Gets a Chinese Clone Just Hours After Official Announcement

Without a doubt, the iPad has served as a design model for countless Chinese knock-off tablets, and it now seems that its successor will suffer exactly the same fate, with photos of a first iPad 2 clone already hitting the web.So, as the guys over at Shanzai report, it seems that a Chinese manufacturer who appar...

3 March 2011
09:30 GMT

How Ants Avoid Inbreeding, Despite Incest

Longhorn crazy ants are a peculiar species of insects. They can mate with their siblings to produce viable offspring, but experience none of the effects of inbreeding that other species experience if they take the same approach to reproduction.It would also appear that this strategy is helping the ants establish a wo...

2 February 2011
04:52 GMT

Ubuntu Linux Running on Yet Another Chinese Apple iPad Clone

As some of you might remember, we've talked a while ago about an Internet tablet running Ubuntu Linux being developed in China, but it seems that the respective model wasn't the only one, since yet another device providing the same level of functionality, but a much closer resemblance to Apple's iPad h...

21 January 2011
10:12 GMT

Samsung Galaxy Tab Knock-Off Pops Up, Packs Genuine Samsung CPU

Typically, Chinese Internet tablet knock-offs tend to take after one of the world's best-known products of this type, namely the Apple iPad, but that's not really the case with the device you're about to see as follows, the PV210, that looks almost identical to yet another famous tablet available world...

17 January 2011
14:25 GMT

Alleged 'iPad 2/mini' Might Be Just an 8-inch Android Knock-Off

One of the hottest pieces of news making the rounds on the Internet during the pre-Christmas period is the one regarding the leaked photo of the alleged “iPad 2” or “iPad mini”, posted by Taiwanese blogger/pop star Jimmy Lin, that, as you'll be able to see as follows, might not even be ge...

23 December 2010
06:01 GMT

Sony Vaio P Also Gets a Chinese Clone

Although most Chinese clones we've talked about up until now have a single, major source of inspiration, namely Apple's iPad tablet, it would seem that another famous portable computing system, Sony's Vaio P netbook (which we've had the chance of reviewing earlier this year) got cloned as well.So,...

20 December 2010
06:31 GMT

iPad 2 'Clone' Surfaces Way Before the Actual Apple Tablet

While we don't yet know too much about Apple's forthcoming iPad 2 tablet (apart from the fact that we should expect it to hit in April, according to Taiwanese sources), we're already seeing certain products that could be described as iPad 2 “clones” being released in China, the Skyworth Sky...

7 December 2010
05:46 GMT

Chinese MacBook Pro Clone Actually Runs Mac OS X

The topic of Chinese knock-offs seems to be without an end (given the huge number of such products making their way onto the market), and the latest addition to the pack is one that delivers a very good resemblance to the original, since the Qingging (aka Dragonfly) company from China released a notebook that not onl...

24 November 2010
14:01 GMT

Aspen Tree Clones Are Not Immortal

A new scientific study demonstrates that seemingly-immortal aspen tree clones also die at a certain point, even though it takes up to tens of thousands of years for that to happen. These organisms essentially clone themselves, which allows them to live for millennia. But researchers recently identified a crack in thi...

18 August 2010
05:22 GMT

Clones Central to Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II

LucasArts has made the surprise announcement that it is developing Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II via Facebook, the game coming quite soon after the launch of the first in what is becoming a series. The surprise was compounded by the fact that any sequel needs to dance a bit around the ending of the first The Forc...

8 June 2010
13:01 GMT

MSI Wind Has 23 Clones Worldwide

Despite the fact that it might not be the best selling netbook on the market, MSI's Wind could literally win a yet-to-be invented award, for the “The netbook with the most number of clones” category. As it turns out, the small-sized Wind is actually available worldwide in 23 differently branded vers...

1 October 2008
05:35 GMT


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