Designer furniture is all too easy to knockoff—but Modern Ruins, a makeshift showroom by artist Stephanie Syjuco, makes art out of imitation. Each classic piece in her collection is made entirely from scavenged materials. These "shanty-life" reproductions look legit, but hint at the complex relationship between modernism, affluence, and affordability. [Recology SF]
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At first glance, this screen looks strangely familiar. The dock icons, the gray, rounded windows, the whole layout; it’s Mac OS X, except not quite. The top-left icon is the giveaway. This ain’t OS X, it’s Red Star, North Korea’s state-sanctioned operating system. And Version 3.0 looks very Mac-like.
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Items directly related to life and death should not go on sale. Sure, the price of any product can be affected by market conditions, but you just don’t want to be buying bungee jumping cords half off. You just don’t.
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The ethically questionable Chinese smartphone maker GooPhone is at it again with their iPhone knockoffs. The latest: an Android 4.1 Jelly Bean-running “iPhone 5S.”
According to highly suspect rumors website NowhereElse.fr, an industrious Chinese company has already copied the design for the iPhone 5—even before we officially know what the iPhone 5 looks like. Meet the Goophone i5, the bastard child of cobbled together rumors and unyielding ambition. More »
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