Category Archives: Technology
A what film?
At first I thought this headline in Shanghai’s Enjoy Classifieds was a poor choice of words from a skin cream company, or similar: But, for 2000RMB ($400 Australian) an hour?……Oh.
Shanzhai Eye: DIY helicopter
It’s one thing to Shanzhai a USB stick or SD card. Another to copy the iPhone. Amazing to see a whole F1 car made from scratch. But, a helicopter? Update: Thanks to Swiss James for pointing out this story was last month’s news at Shanghaiist and 56minus1.com. 56minus1 even has an update on what happened [...]
Stop motion animation: Shanghai Auto Show
This is a short stop motion animation taken in front of the Volkswagon pavilion at the Shanghai Auto Show last week. A few less than obvious things to note from the clip: The HD screen in the background was amazingly huge and clear. There are models walking up and down the stage in front of [...]
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Shanzhai Eye: The Hi-Phone
Make no mistake about it, Shanzhai (fake) phones are big business in China. According to some in the local mobile industry, shanzhai phones make up between 20-30% of the market in China. If you take the industry figure of 650 million mobile subscribers in the middle kingdom then you’re looking at a ballpark figure of [...]
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Kung Fu Cyborg
I hope you’re sitting down, or have a book handy to hide pending excitement, because there’s a new movie hitting cinemas soon – “Metallic Attraction: Kung Foo Cyborg”. Here’s the English trailer: We’re not quite sure what the movie is about but the trailer says its a romantic sci-fi set in a future where the [...]
China’s top 50 Websites
China: the world’s largest population of Interweb users. But what’s going on inside the great firewall and what are people interested in? This is a complex question to answer for a number of reasons; poor industry data, poor publisher’s data, data manipulation, and lack of industry standard measurements. However, one can find a general primer [...]
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Shanzhai Eye: Marlboro Phone
This week on Shanzhai Eye: Take one poisonous habit and a rising emotional attachment addiction, mash it up, and you get this ingenious invention – the cigarette pack phone. What looks like a regular packet of Marlboro Reds, dubbed “Cowboy killers”, is in fact a phone in disguise with the ability to hold at least [...]
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What does IE 8 say about Web development in China?
Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) was released late last week – another browser, “whoop-dee-do”, right? Well maybe, but, the new browser release is an interesting insight into the way Web development seems to happen in China. In non-geek speak the new browser uses a new rendering engine which more closely follows open standards such as [...]
Microsoft’s Bing in China