09:52 
Wed, 7th January 2009
Cubans Go Gadget Crazy
Yesterday, Cubans could lawfully acquire impressible tat for the prototypal time. New chair and lowercase brother of Fidel, Raul Castro, has begun his lifting of “excessive prohibitions”. No concern that most of the accumulation can’t give decorous matter or even, shudder, internet, the crowds that were unsmooth up yesterday prefabricated it countenance same the iPhone launch.
Microwaves, flat-screen TVs and another First World treats were on sale, but with DVD players play at $118 (Philips, if you requirement to know) and teachers’ consequence at around $26 a period (the cipher for every workers is $17), Raul’s advise is every most making grouping see they could acquire these artefact and relieving the semipolitical push of capricious restrictions. And patch these prices are steep, they’re ease cheaper than the black mart options.
Cubans festinate to acquire DVD players, automobile bikes [Reuters]
Picture: Reuters
Melted From: Wired: Gadget Lab
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