Geek Out

Old White Airline Passenger Turns Into Young Asian Man Mid-Flight

Yes, both of these pictures are of the same guy. To the right is how he looked when he boarded Air Canada flight AC018 from Hong Kong to Vancouver. The picture on the left is what he turned into.


October 15, 2010

Chinese McDonald’s Holding Weddings, With Cake And Everything

If you considered that chicken nugget goop to be an aphrodisiac of the most romantic kind, then start looking up flights to Hong Kong for next year. McDonald’s weddings may be alcohol-free, but at least Ronald will be in attendance.


October 2, 2010
Mobile

iPhone 4 Smugglers Caught On Tape

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Even though the iPhone 4 is for sale in China through legitimate channels, there’s a short enough supply that smuggling the devices in from Hong Kong is still big business. Especially, it seems, for these two ladies on a train.


August 23, 2010
Mobile

Asian Countries Too Humid For iPhones?

Apple’s been slapped with many lawsuits for overheating products in the past, but over in Asia, iPhone owners are finding out the hard way that 95 per cent humidity isn’t the best treatment for the temperature-uncomfortable phones.


June 30, 2010
Online

Google Search Will Cease To Exist In China By Friday

As a result of Google standing up to cafeteria-manager China, demanding they serve pie every day of the week, China’s revoked their Internet Content Provider licence, meaning in 24 – 48 hours the Chinese people can’t access Google at all.


June 11, 2010

Is This The Craziest Bridge Ever Designed?

I don’t know if the Pearl River Necklace bridge is the craziest bridge ever designed, but it sure looks like the most twisted one. It’s a clever solution to a hard problem, however.


April 10, 2010
Computing

Hong Kong Stores Selling iPads Illegally

When the iPad went on sale in the US on April 3, the whole world was watching. Not Hong Kong. They were preparing their illegal iPad launch.


October 20, 2009
Gaming

When You Try To Get A Cheap Xbox 360 HDD, It Can Only End In Tears

I refuse to pay $US160 for a 120GB Xbox 360 HDD. But I need one, as my 20GB model is filling up. So I decided to order a cheap one from a shady Hong Kong website. What a mistake.


July 14, 2009
Online

Honey, Someone Shrunk Hong Kong

Dear Google, please make every single Google Maps city in the world look like this ultra-detailed, SimCity-like, isometric map of Hong Kong. Not only it looks beautiful, but if feels clear, useful, and you can get really close:


February 3, 2009

Meeting Brando, Hong Kong’s USB Willy Wonka

I get a text message from a guy saying to meet him at the Outback Steakhouse at the Discovery Park in Tsuen. Ordinarily I might have passed, only this guy was Brando. Yes, that Brando.