Category: lifestyle
Urinals In Women’s Toilets!
If you head to Changsha any time soon and need to visit the ladies room don’t be surprised to find a miniature urinal in there. Don’t worry you haven’t accidentally wandered in to the men’s by mistake. The fact is the local government have decided to spend the tax payers money wisely by adding these [...]
Official 10 Days Till iPad Launches in China!
After a lot of speculation we have confirmation that the iPad will go on sale in China in only 10 days! Pricing details inside!
Samsung Galaxy Tablet Sneaky Hands On VIDEO
Looks like someone got their grubby hands on a Samsung Galaxy Tablet and managed to make this covert recording, which shows off a few of this Android tablets features. It looks great!!
Shanda Releases Bambook ebook Service and Reader
Shanda games have entered the ebook market with their Bambook ebook reader and download service.
New Wind Turbine Plant in Shandong
China Creative Wind Energy Co have started construction a 1.5 billion yuan ($221 million) wind turbine plant in Shandong province. The company who already own and operate factories in Qingdao, Tongliao and Shenyang plan on producing 3 and 5 megawatt turbines in the plant once construction is completed.
Chinese Builder Recovering After Hammer in the Head!
A builder in Nanjing plummeted 3 meters when the roof he was working on suddenly cracked and gave way. You may not think a 3 meter fall too bad, but look what he landed on!! When Dongjiang’s workmates reached him they found him still conscious, but with a claw hammer lodged in to the top [...]
Foxconn Anti-Suicide Rally
Foxconn recently held a moral boosting rally at it’s Shenzhen factory to lift the spirits of workers. Workers were given fancy dress costumes, traditional Chinese dress and ‘I love Foxconn’ T-shirts! This along with a 100% pay rise are attempts by Foxconn to improve workers lives and avoid further suicides and attempted suicides. Full story [...]
Pleco iPhone reads and translates Chinese with camera!! Video
A new app from Pleco which allows the iPhone to ‘read’ Chinese text and translate it on the fly!! With video link.
Mongolian Students Create Largest Human Domino Rally
10,267 students in Ordos, Inner Mongolia have just joined the elite world of record breakers by lying down in the sun and sleeping for just over an hour. Although their newly awarded recorded is for the largest human domino rally where in which they created a 200 X 150 meter square from students wearing white [...]
Latest iPhone 4 Clone gets some iPad styling
The latest in a vast array of Apple forgery is here and it’s taken shape as a sort of iPhone/iPad hybrid, at least on the style front. From the front the 3.5 inch touch screen looks more or less like the 3Gs or any number of its clones. The screen looks rather crisp and the [...]
Alibaba and Sohu Team Up and Take It To Google
Google has lost momentum in China this last year, and local search engines are soaking up all that lost traffic. Baidu are still top dog for Chinese search, but a new partnership between Sohu and Alibaba announced this week is likely to stir things up. Sohu launched it’s Sogou.com search engine in 2004, is the [...]
Some Like It HOT!
I never thought myself prudish, but today I came across these! Spicy Chili Flavour condoms! Why on earth would you want those? At least they’re on special offer at 10RMB a pack at Watson’s pharmacy. I’ll hold out for my cheese and onion flavor Union Jack ribbed tickler!
Phone Clones Of The Week
This is a new section I just decided to write up. Every week or so we’ll post information and photos of a few cloned phones available around China with pricing. To start off we’ve decided to feature 3 phones which tickled our fancy. One is a Motorola Flipout clone, the next is a HTC HD2 [...]
China Launches Disaster Monitoring Satellite
China’s Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in northern Shaanxi province successfully placed a remote sensing satellite in to orbit yesterday. The satellite known as “Yaogan X” will conduct scientific experiments, land surveys, estimate crops yields and help locate and predict natural disasters. Yaogan X joins Yaogan IX which was launched from the Jiuquan Center in March.
Get Yourself a Free VPN 2 Day Trial
Unfortunately, it seems like the VPN trick through the Japanese server we featured a few months back no longer seems to be working. We have yet to find a good free alternative, however commenter ‘Jade’ told us about a service called GoVPNGo. These guys offer paid for VPN solutions, but fortunately they give away 2 [...]
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