Knock-off products are one of the little hilarious joys in life. For every Dr. Pepper, there’s a Mr. Pibb. For every North Face, there’s a North Fake. And for every Microsoft Windows, there’s a Michaelsoft Binbows. No, I’m not making that last one up. It’s real, as you will see in a moment.
Sometimes it seems like the creators of the knock-offs really believe they are going to fool you. They want you to pick up a “Pear” laptop and not realize until you take it home that it’s not an Apple. But other times — the most glorious times — it’s painfully clear the people making the knock-off could not care less that you know it’s a not the real thing. All they’re trying to do is cash in on recognizable imagery, so they put such little effort into renaming their products it’s just comical. These are those products.