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Friday, June 13, 2008

The Craziest Gadgets of Taiwan's Computex Trade Show


Glittery. Strange. Futuristic. No, we're not talking about some of the options you'll find at the iPhone's upcoming SDK App store. We're talking about some of the crazy items that were displayed at this year's Computex Trade show, in Taipei, Taiwan.

The Computex event is not only one of the world's largest technology conferences in the world (alongside CeBit and CES), but we think it's slightly ahead of the others in terms of randomness and scope. After all, where else can you find a dust-filled, fanless industrial computer box shaking maddeningly right next to a bunch of panda-shaped USB devices, all with a too-satisfied expression on their face? Nowhere else. Outside of the Wired offices, that is.

PC World has a gallery up of some of the craziest stuff at this year's event, including a notebook with a swivel neck that drops down into your lap, and a little USB-ported alien doll that hits itself on the head with a hammer whenever someone sends you an IM.

And you thought the big news coming out of this event this year was the new line of Asus Eee PCs. What were you thinking?

Source: blog.wired.com

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