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No New iPhone? Irate Customers Egg Apple Store

6:00PM January 13, 2012 | Andrew Tarantola

They had come from kilometres around, stood in sub-zero degree weather for hours, and patiently queued for the store to open its doors. Today was iPhone day in Beijing! But when the doors did open, the huddled masses were told there would be no iPhone 4S, not today. And then shit got real. More »

Geek Out

Beijing’s Largest Hotel Belongs At Area 51

12:20PM June 23, 2011 | Brian Barrett

This is a rendering the Beijing National Hotel, a planned 214,000sqm hostel for visitors to China’s capital city. It’s huge, sure, the biggest landmark in Beijing. But my goodness, did it also have to be so creepy? More »

Mobile

Beijing Apple Store Triples Security To Fight Scalpers

3:40AM October 21, 2010 | Kyle VanHemert

Scalpers at the Beijing Apple Store just won’t quit. First they caused the store to close. Now Apple has reportedly tripled the store’s security and requires customers to be escorted upstairs to buy their iPhone 4. Madness! More »

Mobile

iPhone 4 Scalpers Force Beijing Apple Store To Close

4:40AM October 1, 2010 | Brian Barrett

Yesterday, one of Apple’s Beijing locations lifted the two-per-customer iPhone 4 limit. The result: chaos, confusion and the temporary shutdown of the store. Sounds like the scalpers did pretty well for themselves, though. More »

The Beautiful Water Cube In Beijing Is Now A Water Theme Park

11:00AM August 15, 2010 | Casey Chan

Olympic stadiums have a short shelf life. They’re oohed and aahed at during the games, but after the festivities they’re forgotten and left to rust. China is trying to prevent that by re-inventing the beautiful Water Cube as a theme park. More »

12m Optimus Prime Transforms Beijing Skyline

12:20PM July 16, 2010 | Brian Barrett

Visitors to China’s Green Dream Park – not far from the 2008 Olympics’ “Bird’s Nest” stadium – are currently being greeted by a 12m tall, six-ton Optimus Prime made from five truckloads of car and truck spare parts. Take that, Gundam. More »

Alternative Fog Reality Confuses And Puzzles

6:40AM April 10, 2010 | Kat Hannaford

This Beijing installation is not suitable for asthmatics, to say the least. Coloured fog was piped through an art gallery, causing havoc and confusion for those walking through. More »

Deodorant Cannons Wage War Against Landfill Stench

2:00AM March 28, 2010 | Kyle VanHemert

“Alright men. Listen here and listen good. This landfill is one mean sumovabitch. And boy does it stink. Stinks bad. So we’re rolling out the heavy artillery: One-hundred stink-killin’, air-freshenin’ cannons. I love the smell of deodorant in the morning.” More »

Beijing Expansion Looks Like High Tech Eden

3:25AM October 28, 2009 | 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 »

Cars

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

1:30AM September 7, 2009 | 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 »