Student builds girlfriend a tablet for $125

One-off creation comes complete with rhinestones.
Tablets continue to grow in popularity, but when cheaper options such as the $199 Kindle Fire are still out of some people's reach, the likes of the $499 iPad will definitely be out of the question.
Chinese student Wei Xinlong couldn't afford to buy his girlfriend Sun Shasha a tablet, so decided to cut out the middleman.
By using an old $78 laptop, how-to videos, ingenuity and a few additional parts he was able to construct a fully functional tablet for $125.
The final result was a Windows 7 touchscreen device that has approximately the same width and height as Apple's iPad.
It reportedly took Wei ten days to build the gadget, which allows his girlfriend to browse the web, watch videos, and read e-books.

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