Oops. Over the weekend, it seems as if 300 or so unlucky individuals were shipped a counterfeit processor from the normally reliable warehouses at NewEgg , and Hard|OCP has the images (and video) to prove it. Vincent Waller couldn’t have possibly been more eager to receive the Core i7-920 that he had ordered, but upon unboxing it, he realized that he had received a well-disguised fake. After a fair bit of digging, it seems as if one of NewEgg’s “long time partners” (D&H Distributing) got ahold of 300 fakes in a batch of 2,000, though not everyone’s buying the “it was an honest mistake” line — especially when you consider that said company has already issued cease-and-desist letters to the sites who published the news. At any rate, NewEgg has already arranged for an authentic CPU to be rushed to Mr.

Mama always said that some folks just never learn , and we reckon there’s plenty of wisdom to be had from that very statement. Year after year , German police are called in to raid select booths at CeBIT ( and IFA , to be fair), and yet again we’ve seen a booth cleared out at the request of powerful lawyers from a few companies you may have heard of. Word on the street has it that Apple, Siemens and Sisvel were all kvetching over patent infringements made by an unnamed company exhibiting at last week’s show, and within an hour or so of the fuzz showing up, the whole thing was stripped and a hefty fine (€10,000) was levied. Unfortunately, the exact details of who was violating what remains clouded in mystery, but for whatever reason, we get the feeling that something extremely similar will be going down in Hannover next year.

This beautiful photo of a wolf jumping over a fence elicited the usual rabble of “fake!” claims when it won a prestigious wildlife photography competition. The photographer denies the claims, but he’s just been stripped of the award. Unusually, nobody doubts that it’s a real wolf (as opposed to some sort of photo manipulation)—the controversy is that the wolf pictured may in fact be a tame wolf by the name of Ossian. The evidence: It’s an exceedingly rare species, hardly ever seen in the wild; a wild wolf would be more likely to squeeze through the fence than leap over it; and, um, it looks like Ossian (I guess there are people out there who can tell wolves apart; I can barely tell that it’s not my neighbor’s dog). Jesus termed it “the ultimate FAKE internet whining.” The judges for the Natural History Museum have decided after awarding this photo the top prize that the wolf pictured is in fact a tame specimen, which breaks the rules of the competition. Jim Brandenburg, a judge and a wildlife photographer with 45 years experience of taking pictures of wolves, marvelled at the image of the animal, captured so clearly and apparently hunting a farmer’s livestock

Yeah, yeah — we’ve seen a fairly weak effort to ape the Pre before, but this… this is the knockoff webOS device your shady side has been waiting for. A dead ringer for the Palm Pre, the Cool K07 boasts a luscious 2.8-inch touchscreen (320 x 240 resolution), a T-Flash card slot, a 2 megapixel camera, inbuilt speaker, MP3 / MP4 player, a blazing fast connection to the web (GPRS, if you must know), Bluetooth, an FM radio tuner, alarm clock, a few games and room for 1,000 contacts. Granted, there’s none of that fancy ” Synergy ” stuff, and we’re guessing you won’t find any “cards” or “multitasking” here, but for $128 unlocked and room for the SIM card of your choice, how on Earth could you complain? Exactly. You can’t.

Fake musicians the world over are increasingly casting aside their fake instruments, reports video game stats go-to firm the NPD Group. Apparently, the short era of plastic rhythm game instruments and accessories is leveling off. Indeed, the numbers are tanking for both major games in this space, and hard, although analyst Michael Pachter says they should level off at a “healthy” $500 million/year. Reports Reuters, the recently released and much ballyhooed The Beatles game moved 800,000 units to date, which is 200,000 short of what analysts expected it would sell. Guitar Hero 5, on the other hand, sold just 500,000 this year. The number pales in comparison to the 1.4 million pieces of plastic Guitar Hero III managed to sell during its first month on store shelves

This KINGK N99 phone has all the makings of a proper knock-off. It looks just like the Motorola AURA! It has a Nokia logo! It has a Transformers Autobot logo! It even has a 1.3 “magapixel” camera. Just in case this KINGK tickles your fancy, you can import it from—where else—China for $159.99 now. Do let us know if it “caters to the taste of male friends” like it says on the website. [ SZPrice via UberGizmo ]

If you had to play a five-note jingle in the most extravagant way possible, how would you go about it? Intel’s answer is to propel five “engineers” through the air and into specially prepared jumbo-sized tubular bells. The result is the familiar “Intel Inside” tune, and for extra flair points the big bad monopolist also throws in a countdown done in Finnish which you’ll definitely want to see and hear. The video lies after the break and yes, of course it’s a fake — even the engineers are just hired actors . Continue reading Intel fires employees out of cannons, flirts with supervillainy Intel fires employees out of cannons, flirts with supervillainy originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 17 Dec 2009 06:23:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds

If you had to play a five-note jingle in the most extravagant way possible, how would you go about it? Intel’s answer is to propel five “engineers” through the air and into specially prepared jumbo-sized tubular bells. The result is the familiar “Intel Inside” tune, and for extra flair points the big bad monopolist also throws in a countdown done in Finnish which you’ll definitely want to see and hear. The video lies after the break and yes, of course it’s a fake — even the engineers are just hired actors . Continue reading Intel fires employees out of cannons, flirts with supervillainy Intel fires employees out of cannons, flirts with supervillainy originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 17 Dec 2009 06:23:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds

Oh yes, yes, yes, yes, YES. Shopping Ikea with an Apple tablet ! I could be so there. Unfortunately, it’s fake. A clever fake over a blue screen—as you can notice on the hands’ edges and shadows—but fake nonetheless.

Having trouble getting your hands on that Nokia E72 ? Perhaps you favor a handset with a TV tuner? Zoho’s KIRF E72 features the aforementioned tuner, dual sim, QWERTY keypad, WiFi, JAVA, FM tuner, and both rear and front-facing 1.3MP cameras. Rest assured, the UI looks nothing like what you’d get with from Finland.