Fake tech demos, a brief history

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From the Mechanical Turk to Elon Musk's remote-controlled robots, wily tech salesmen have often pulled the wool over our eyes.

Elon Musk has been called out for a spate of strange fibs lately (and if anything, he should have been called out for many more).

And on what became the most important demo day of his life, the iPhone unveiling in January 2007, Jobs wasn't above faking a detail or two.

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Author / Journalist: Chris Taylor

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