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Design

Beijing Expansion Looks Like High Tech Eden

3:25AM Jesus Diaz | They may have some of the dirtiest city skies in the planet, but at least the Chinese authorities are doing some nice and beautiful urban planning for the future of Beijing. More »
Vehicles

It’s Official: Chinese Farmers Can Build Anything, Rarely Farm

1:30AM Jack Loftus | What is it with everyday Chinese folks building extraordinary things? Last month farmer Wu Zhongyuan built a helicopter from wood and metal. This month Tao Xiangl is scooting around the waters near Beijing in a hand-built submarine. More »
Hardware

Intel Atom Turns One With New 2GHz, 1.2GHz Models

6:58PM John Herrman | It’s been a year since Intel fired the opening salvo against regular-size laptopping with its Atom processor. Now, the Z series gets its expected speed bump, and at the bottom end, a low-power MID-oriented model. More »
Science

Beijing Clinic Using Stem Cells as Eternal Youth Beauty Treatment

6:00PM Elaine Chow | While we debate the morality of stem cell usage here, China’s gone ahead and started marketing it as a beauty product. A Beijing medical centre is offering “age-reversing” stem cell therapy for your face. More »
Design

Wire Fu Lets Fly in Chinese Performance Artist’s Work

4:30PM Elaine Chow | Chinese performance artist Li Wei uses mirrors, scaffolding and steel wires to create these seriously awesome gravity-defying pictures. While some are Photoshopped post-production, mostly they’re made through the magic of thoughtful planning. More »
Phones

Beijing iPhone Bowling Man is Viral Ad For Different Phone

6:00PM Elaine Chow | Of no surprise to any of you, the Beijing arm-swinging man turned out to be a viral ad. But turns out it wasn’t for the iPhone (which is still not officially allowed here)… More »
Games

Beijing Man Shows Why Certain iPhone Games Shouldn’t be Played on the Subway

8:00PM Elaine Chow | Some Beijing man had to learn the hard way that Flick Bowling on the iPhone is probably not the best game to play in public… especially inside public transport. Yowch, expensive lesson. [Youku Buzz] More »
Computers

Computer Modelled After Incredible Bejing Digital Building

12:15AM Mark Wilson | The Bejing Digital building wasn’t the breakaway star of 2008 Olympics architecture, but if Michael Phelps built circuit boards, things might have been different. Luckily, one modder created a case to commemorate the building. More »
Networks

Beijing to be World’s Largest Wifi City in 2011

4:05PM Elaine Chow | Beijing may become the world’s largest city to be blanketed in free wifi by 2011. Officials, happy with an Olympics test run, are now rolling it out to everywhere. Watch for censor ganking though. [Danwei] More »
Vehicles

Old Beijing Subway Trains Get Second Life As Homeless Shelters

2:30PM Elaine Chow | Ever wonder what happens to old subway cars when subway lines upgrade to newer trains? In Beijing at least, the ones used pre-Olympics have been shipped to Sichuan and converted into temporary winter shelters. Ten DK-16 trains, each with six cars, are now in Guangyuan, a city north of Sichuan’s capital Chengdu. More »