As you might imagine, becoming the dominant player in electronics component manufacturing in China — particularly at a time when competition has never been fiercer — takes a particular personality type, and after reading BusinessWeek ’s profile of Foxconn founder Terry Gou, you get a very real sense that the dude meets the criteria. His reaction to this year’s factory suicide controversy is a bit unusual; he basically comes out and says that he didn’t worry about the first few before realizing that he needed to make some changes somewhere around the fifth death, but given that he says he’s been living in his office for a while now and eating three meals at his desk trying to make things right, it sounds like he’s finally on top of it. The story of Foxconn’s stratospheric rise is an interesting one, starting with its early coup making components for the Atari 2600 leading through to its purchase of 1,000 Fanuc milling robots generally reserved for prototyping — valued at $20,000 apiece — that it needed to buy to secure Apple’s iPhone 4 contract.
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BusinessWeek profiles Foxconn founder (and veritable pitbull) Terry Gou
Ok, so you’ll have to import it from dodgy Chinese site M8Cool, but surely a gamble with your credit card security is worth the slight chance of getting a working Palm Pre , running iPhone OS? More »
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Can’t Decide Between an iPhone and Palm Pre? Get Both—In One Phone! [Knock Offs]
With any luck, the only vibrations you’ll be feeling in this quake-proof bed is from…no, I won’t go there. Should an earthquake happen, the bed turns into a strongbox and stores tinned food and water in case of emergencies
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You Won’t Feel the Earth Move Under Your Feet in This Quake-Proof Bed [Furniture]
Hey, die-hard fans of fantasy fiction, right about now would be a good time for you to make a saving throw against having your head explode . Atari and Cryptic, whose former unions resulted in Star Trek Online and Champions Online , have announced their next joint effort: A new online RPG set in the frequently game-adapted Dungeons and Dragons universe, Neverwinter .
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Atari and Cryptic teaming up on new Neverwinter RPG [update]
This January, you’ll be able to play Plants vs. Zombies on two screens without running two simultaneous games on your iPhone and computer.
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Plants vs. Zombies taking root on DS January 2011
Can’t say we’ve heard of the Pleco Chinese Dictionary app prior to today even though it’s been around for two full version releases. Of course, we’ve seen plenty of Google Goggle -like smartphone apps that can snap pictures and then convert the image to text using optical character recognition (OCR) — something that can be incredibly useful when important stacks of business cards. Pleco 2.2, however, is one of the first apps we’ve seen that can translate text in real time using the live image presented on your phone’s camera display.
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Pleco 2.2 Chinese Dictionary uses iPhone camera to translate text in real time (video)
Well… this is interesting. Prior to Kinect hitting the masses in November, one Eedoo looks to be doing the world one better (or worse) with the eBox.
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Lenovo side project to launch Xbox 360 / Kinect knockoff in China: hello, eBox
Microsoft is apparently working with Chinese regulators to allow the sale of its Xbox 360 console in the country of 1.3 billion people. Shanghai Daily ( subscription required) reports that Ya-Qin Zhang , a corporate VP for MS in China, stated the company is hoping to launch the console legally in the country, but there’s currently no timetable on when that will happen.
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Microsoft working on approval to sell Xbox 360 in China
We’re so conditioned to retching whenever we see a knock-off, that I did a doubletake when I clapped eyes on this Adidas sneaker phone .
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Adidas Sneaker Phone Must Be Really Fast [Knock Offs]
You’d think Motorola would be done for the summer after pushing out the much anticipated Droid 2 , but no — apparently it has yet more Android handsets to deliver before it could head to the beach.
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Motorola XT806 Android flip phone strikes a pose on Chinese website
