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They've had rollable phones since the 80s.

I handle it quite well.
 
Here is some Chinese knockoff Musk merchandise. Why pay him when you can pay the chingchongs directly?
 
She's gone from suck to blow...

but if Google is Photoshop, DDG is an Etch-A-Sketch.

This is an excellent analogy, especially if all you need to get the job done is an Etch-A-Sketch. In most cases, the less complicated the tool is the more effective it is at accomplishing its intended purpose. Which is going to be a better tool for pounding in nail? A hammer or this?

Here's one example. I don't know anything about this seller but I bought this exact tool some time ago on Woot.com. You can find somewhat similar tools on Amazon and other websites under the name "life hammer" or "safety hammer".
http://www.dhgate.com/product/...|3634601311

DHGate is fairly good, as well as TinyDeal (although it isn't like a complete copy, there are some items where they can provide as good of a deal). But yeah, there really isn't much like Alibaba's offerings in China.

There are actually Chinese noname watches that are basically fully fledged smartphones with most of what you'd expect from a smartphone in terms of features, including a camera. Example: http://www.dhgate.com/product/...|1016721942

Good luck getting that battery to last you through the day!

These have been for sale from China for at least a year: http://www.dhgate.com/wholesal... Seems to me this is old news - it looks like a finished product.

Ok, compare your fluke and sparkfun images to theses:

http://i01.i.aliimg.com/wsphot...

http://image.dhgate.com/albu_2...

http://img.dxcdn.com/productim...

http://fasttechcdn.com/product...

http://m4.uxcell.com/photo_new...

My point is, sparkfun, hasnt done anything special. Many Multimeters on the market have that same design.

well...if $38 is too rich for your blood..there is always this..

http://www.dhgate.com/product/lenovo-lepad-a2207-lenovo-idea-tab-a2207a/178135882.html#s1-14-1|1005834550 ...AND it's Lenova!

I'm looking to replace my ageing Nexus S. I'm sick of getting locked into scumbag cel phone company contracts, but I really can't convince myself to fork over the $500-$700 asking price for a tool that realistically might be usable for two years. There's just no way that these prices seem reasonable.

I'm looking fairly seriously at the many cheap Android phones selling out of China. Even if the build quality is a bit sloppy, it looks like I can pick up a good usable Android phone for a couple of hundred bucks. At that price replacing it every year or so makes sense.

Maybe there are people who feel that paying an extra $500 for the absolute newest, fastest, shiniest phone is reasonable, but for a lot of us $200 is about the right price point for a smart phone that does everything that we need adequately. That's where things like the cheap Firefox phones are likely to make their mark.

Pentalobular is not found in most run-of-the-mill tool sets. It is a path breaking new innovation among screw drivers. This is Apple's answer to people ridiculing it for patenting rounded rectangles. This innovative work shows they are familiar with more complicated shapes too. You need to buy a special iScrew set to get it. Of course you can get cheap imitation ones. But a true fan buys only the best. And you get a slimmer, shinier handle, stand-out-from-the-crowd white color, brushed aluminum shank and pride of knowing that you own the best and you deserve the best. It is not easy to be the best, you need to upgrade it to dodecodolobular screw driver in the next release. That sesquicentolobular thing from Samsung just would not cut it.

Looking at the Chinese text on the box, Siemens seems to make a hearing aid for the Chinese market, which several Chinese companies are happy to export.
http://www.dhgate.com/wholesale-dropshipping-bte-hearing-aid-siemens/p-ff8080812e7a6478012e7fcc29304544.html

Siemens site seems to indicate this is a bonafide hearing aid (see last page)
http://w1.hearing.siemens.com/_resources-re/files/04-products/25-lotus/pdf/Broch_Con_Lotus_consumer_en_2010.pdf

Someone mentioned automation. Interestingly, Siemens also has an automated (webpage based!) hearing test
http://w1.hearing.siemens.com/en/05-about-hearing/02-understanding-hearing-impairment/01-hearing-loss/01-hearing-test/hearing-test.jsp

Yes, yes, yes! You would be foolish to rebuild the hardware.
Here are 47,826 vendors in China willing to sell you Android tablets.
http://www.dhgate.com/wholesale/search.do?act=search&searchkey=android&catalog=#search

You can buy 7in Android tablets shipped to your door for $60.

Basically, that's already done. NES-on-a-CHIP and SNES-on-a-chip solutions can be found at any anime convention; if you want a really cheap, crappy version you can go to your local shopping mall around christmas and find some really sleazy-skeezy looking Indian or Latino guy hawking the GameStation3D, which has "10,000 games in one" (actually probably about 50 NES and 50 SNES roms with the game numbers on a repeating loop) all crammed into a base station and badly fashioned Chinese-made "controller" where half the buttons don't work. He may also be selling something like this or something like this crappy-ass GBA ripoff called a 'PVP'.

They're all made in China.

Most are made in Taiwan. For China in my original post read PRC.

But do these have access to Android Market?

Yes.

GSM but not CDMA, leaving AT&T as the only choice once AT&T completes its acquisition of T-Mobile.

Ah, I had momentarily forgotten that GSM networks aren't universal in the US like they are here in the UK. Still, there are plenty of CDMA-capable phones on this list. I'd recommend against buying a phone here that appears to be from a manufacturer you recognize -- it isn't, and there's a chance of it being intercepted at customs.

http://www.dhgate.com/30pcs-lot-premium-gold-plated-toslink-digital/p-ff80808128ba63dd0128bf06b19b6d47.html

There's one right there. I'll bet that gold connector does all kinds of awesome for that optical PCM signal...

No, this is on par for such devices. There is little to no file system mgmt for field devices or EDRs. Just write and write. The file table is always apart from the circular memory. The amount of capacity to report is a known hack performed long ago for USB memory sticks. This is the same thing in a different package. This is probably all one chip.

You can buy your own (some come with the circular write as an option) and although the capacity is probably truthful, you can put it in a hard drive case and sell it to all the fools you can find.

I imagine MoS2 based semiconductors would only be cost effective if they can figure out how to use as little of it as possible, perhaps with MoS2 over some other substrate.

Near as I can tell it's dirt cheap. I figure the cost will be the same as current processors, getting it to ultra-pure quality and the etching process. You can get a kilo of not-so-very-pure MoS2 for about a buck. Even silicon good enough to make solar cells costs $67 dollars a kilo according to this 2009 article. The rest is for turning it from a lump of metal to a working processor.

This one. It's a full featured tablet, lacking 3G but has WIFI, removable SD Card memory, USB ports, HDMI output, a decent screen (same pixel density as the iPad), pretty good battery life (7-8 hours of music and book reading), Android 2.1 and Android Market access. And you can get them for well under $200; a friend here in Shanghai just picked one up - with a leather folding cover/case that includes an integrated keyboard - for $140.

Look around. You can find pretty powerful Android 2.1 tablets for cheap. A friend here in Shanghai just bought one - with a USB keyboard in the cover - for 960 RMB, about $140. I've had one for several months now, and it's been a great tablet - does everything I could want a tablet to do, and is very affordable. It's only a matter of time before a bigger brand starts importing these into the EU and the US.

"At the $250 price level, the larger screen would have been worth it; at $500, no way."

Let's not forget there's a huge legal battle going on too, and these companies aren't exactly dell, they don't have billions to fight off in court, if they go under and something breaks on your $500 JooJoo how do you get your money back from a defunct company in Taiwan? And how does this Taiwan company think they own it? If I went to some guy and said "hey i want you to build this for me, here's the design and schematic", and he said screw off, built it himself and sold a million copies, I think I'd have some legal recourse.

This whole thing stinks to high heaven. Runs proprietary code so who knows what you can really do with it. It's like a large iPod Touch at double the price with no developers and made in Taiwan, what good is it really? How come I can buy a fake iPod touch for $50 but this thing is $500 and really just a larger iPod Touch? Something doesn't add up.

fwiw, http://search.dhgate.com/search.do?act=search&dkp=1&searchkey=itunes&catalog=

And you are showing your naivete. China knows there is no way to enforce this.

Examples, you ask? Sure.

Here is the family of devices I worked on.

Here is an absolutely infringing device being sold. It is as blatant of a ripoff as you could possibly get. They didn't even change the freaking color of the unit.

They reverse engineered our unit and built clones. We know this because we bought one and used it. It duplicates subtle bugs in our unit. It is absolutely 100% certainly an illegal copy. And the patent space in the OBD2 market is carved up VERY tightly, so they are certainly breaking patent law by selling this unit. Not to mention the whole "theft of IP" issues.

And you'll notice that nobody is kicking down any doors to get these people to stop.

Face it - this sort of thing is absolutely unenforceable. It's naive to think otherwise.

Or there are more interesting pictures available.
Maybe that's just my filthy mind.