Taiwan's amazing, obscure innovative tech-toys

By Cory Doctorow at 1:02 am Sunday, Jun 5

Wired News is carrying an amazing piece on Taiwan's Computex conference, where small entrepreneurial firms exhibit innovative hardware designs they've cooked up in their labs. This is the stuff of those delightful shelves in the back of Fry's and in the technology markets in Chinatowns, with brand-names you don't recognize, that does stuff you've never imagined. The accompanying photogallery makes this look like the kind of show I'd love to go to -- like the awesome Chinese section at CES (the only part of the CES floor I enjoyed the year I went). Link

Update: Simon Burns, who wrote the article in question, sez, "Actually, one of the weirdest, but most interesting, gadgets I saw was barely mentioned in that article. That was an astonishingly tiny video player. How tiny? Hold up two fingers - it's smaller.

They told me the manufacturing cost was below $55. Makes me wonder how long before greetings cards play video. Three years?

There's a little more information in an article I wrote, and Dans Data reviewed a similar product from another company recently.