Wei Xinlong, a college student at the Northeast Normal University in Changchun, really wanted to make his girlfriend, Sun Shasha, very happy.

He knew she would love to be in possession of the world's No. 1 passion possession, the iPad. However, he didn't have the money to effect that love. So he set about building an iPad from scratch.

Like all resourceful students, he took to the Web and learned as much as he could about the way tablets are built.

Then he bought a touch screen and a battery--online, naturally--and set to work. He reportedly cobbled together parts from an old laptop he bought, also online: the motherboard, the display, and the memory, for example. Then he finished it off with some pretty little rhinestones all the way round the outside. (A picture is here.)

"One can read, download, watch movies, play games by just touching the screen," he told China Daily News.

Oddly, though the home-made creation is Windows 7 enabled, it does seem to have an Apple logo on it-- something that might amuse a few lawyers and stimulate a few counterfeiters.

The whole cost of the homemade machine was 800 Yuan, which, at today's inflated prices seems to be $125.

Sun Shasha, for her part, couldn't have been more deliriously happy. She told China Daily News: "This is the best gift I've ever had, and I will keep it forever."

Surely, with so many vast technical brains in the U.S., some dashing gent must have tried to make his lover a personally crafted iPad.

Or has love lost its creative power over here in the West?


http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/photo/2011-11/22/content_14142278.htm

now, this is interesting! Talk about digitalizing love!

Omo, I wan go China, me sef wan build BB Torch for this Nkechi girl wey I dey trip for!

waoo! This is called Isun sha sha

how nice

What a romantic guy! So nice!
I hope the girl realises she has got a man that will go the extra mile and not ditch him for an ugly bastar'd in a Mercedes with tufts of grey hair freely flowing from his nostrils.

I'm not amazed,China's home to the best brains in the field of technology!

Maleeq:

now, this is interesting! Talk about digitalizing love!

Omo, I wan go China, me sef wan build BB Torch for this Nkechi girl wey I dey trip for!  

See what love is stimulating in a Nigerian People will start building different, different things for their lovers e.g. keke Napep (full option) with AC

These Chinese never cease to amaze me, so creative and highly innovative despite their level of poverty (at the grassroot)

Really Cool

Maleeq:

now, this is interesting! Talk about digitalizing love!

Omo, I wan go China, me sef wan build BB Torch for this Nkechi girl wey I dey trip for!  

By the time you are done building the BB torch, she would have followed another man that buys her a Bold 5

Maleeq:

now, this is interesting! Talk about digitalizing love!

Omo, I wan go China, me sef wan build BB Torch for this Nkechi girl wey I dey trip for! 

Na the same Nkechi go ask you wetin do d one wey dey cash n carry?

this story tells us how far we are from our colleagues (students) in advanced countries. All we know in Nigeria is theoretical, the practical aspect of our education is zero. Some of computer science student can not even operate computer, most accounting students do not know how to use Accounting Softwares, almost all economist students can not run analyses with econometric programs, etc. May God help Nigeria

this is business in the making, i wish i can connect with guy, in so doing he will produce more and i do the marketing cus chinese products are hotcakes here in naija. i bet him we will be rich in no time

atasteve:

See what love is stimulating in a Nigerian People will start building different, different things for their lovers e.g. keke Napep (full option) with AC

These Chinese never cease to amaze me, so creative and highly innovative despite their level of poverty (at the grassroot)

[size=18pt]ROTFLMFAOOO @ KEKE NAPEP FULL OPTION WITH AC AND AIRBAG [/size]

I doubt this can happen in Nigeria. why? Nigerian students study to become employee of company not as a potential inventor.

I wonder if the chinese government has a hand in this

Whaooo!!! He is romantically Intelligent, Nigeria guys should copy ASAP

That was nice of him.

what is the big deal about what he's done.
buying parts and putting them together.
childs' play

Naija will surely Reach This Level One Day!

kunlekunle:

what is the big deal about what he's done.
buying parts and putting them together.
childs' play

I wonder oh

Nice story.

Lilnikee:

Naija will surely Reach This Level One Day!

Which level?

dis is quite innovative,digital love

He was able to achieve because of the resources available to him. I bet Nigerian's would do this if we have such resources like Power, Internet and other infrastructure. I won't be surprised that someone also sponsored his research and development.

Why is it that we can't do documentaries like u always see in NaGeo --- Nobody would put his/her money there because to them its not productive

We the youths needs to put more of our time into innovations and we'd do better than this guy.

if i be Nkechi i no go take am oh. mek e no go sef-combust for my jeans(like t one for australia. who no weda na her bf giv am). i never ready to be limpo,

naija babe no fit appreciate this kind thing at all,

[td]He was able to achieve because of the resources available to him. I bet Nigerian's would do this if we have such resources like Power, Internet and other infrastructure. I won't be surprised that someone also sponsored his research and development.[/td]

Then he bought a touch screen and a battery--online, naturally--and set to work. He reportedly cobbled together parts from an old laptop he bought, also online: the motherboard, the display, and the memory, for example. Then he finished it off with some pretty little rhinestones all the way round the outside. (A picture is here.)


old boy, u need to ask questions, u need to look for answers, u need a querying mind.
he searched the internet   which u have access to
he bought parts and used old stuffs
then he decorated it

no sponsors or much money needed
big deal.

Quote from: Maleeq on Yesterday at 09:14:32 AM

now, this is interesting! Talk about digitalizing love!

Omo, I wan go China, me sef wan build BB Torch for this Nkechi girl wey I dey trip for!  

By the time you are done building the BB torch, she would have followed another man that buys her a Bold 5  

Not only Bold 5 sef. the guy wld also give a LONG THING , for her D Koko, sef,

Nice one.

i built NOKIA 3310 for my girl,she ask say weda i small pass persn wey build BB.omo d babe disgrace me,

kunlekunle:

what is the big deal about what he's done.
buying parts and putting them together.
childs' play

^^ Oya go build your own 3310