HP has a habit of dressing up its netbooks with special edition covers from big name designers like Vivienne Tam and Tord Boontje. So what better way to spruce up a Chinese HP Mini knockoff than by adorning it with a little bling? Of course, there’s bling and then there’s bling. And while the HP Mini 1000 Vivienne Tam Edition…

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I’ve seen blinged out netbooks from Japan before. But generally, I wouldn’t touch them with a 17.5 meter pole. But acclaimed Japanese gadget artist (he paints on gadgets) UFO Hayashi’s decorated Acer Aspire One is actually kind of attractive. It’s also kind of (OK, really) expensive. He’s put this little work of art up on eBay with a starting bid…

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Sure, the Acer Aspire One line of netbooks come in several attractive colors including black, white, brown, and blue. But that’s jsut not good enough for some people. What people, you ask? How about the folks in cute-obsessed Japan. Of course, there’s cute, and then there’s… absolutely hideous. I’m pretty sure bedazzling a netbook’s lid doesn’t affect performance, but it’s…

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