Tag: china
Shiny Video Review: BooM China speakers from TwinMOS
It’s a vase. It’s a speaker. No, wait! It’s a vase speaker! It’s a vase speaker that costs £179.99!…
Chinese manufacturer Penchan has done it! A 5.5 terapixel camera!
Who woulda thunk it? The Chinese company Penchan has developed a camera with a whopping 5.5 Terapixel resolution, or in layman’s terms, 5,500,000 megapixels. Yes, really. We just got off the phone to Canon and Nikon and it’s safe to say, they’re petrified.
When we told Hasselblad about Penchan’s new product, they vowed to get out of the industry as fast as their little Swedish legs could carry them.
But, to obviously soften the blow to their competitors, they encased it in a powder blue cover…
HDTV UK's HD DVD / Blu-ray Special Feature: the future, and stuff
Just when you thought you could settle down for a quiet CES safe in the knowledge that the high definition disc format war was at stalemate for at least another six months or so, Warner go and scrap HD DVD,…
IMOBILE shows off C1000 3G touchscreen phone watch
The days of strapping ridiculously large blocks of technology to your wrist aren't over, it seems, with the introduction of the IMOBILE C1000 wristwatch 3G mobile. Ignoring the fact that it's yet another accessory beginning with the letter "I",…
Chinese gamer dies after mammoth three-day binge
A man died over the weekend after clocking up an astonishing three consecutive days of gaming.
Chinese paper the Beijing News reported that local police had ruled out suicide, saying that the poor bloke, who had made a permanent base in an internet cafe in the southern town of Guangzhou…
China implements own version of HD DVD format, vaguely compatible
The ongoing war between the two main high definition disc formats — HD DVD and Blu-ray — may just have become a little more complicated, as China has adopted its own version of the HD DVD format. With China becoming…
Chinese kids relearning how to go outside and ride bikes in "internet addict camp"
An estimated 2.6 million Chinese under-18s are considered internet addicts, according to newspaper China Daily.
Web addiction has got so bad out there that a new summer camp for net-crazed youths between 14 and 22 is being trialed
Chinese get their own Second Life
IF your Mandarin is up to scratch then you might fancy a crack at HiPiHi. No, it's not the Chinese version of the holiday camp-based BBC 80s sitcom but a souped-up version of Second Life for Chinese-speaking avatars….
Nude web chats are fine, thanks to Chinese law loophole
Chinese prosecutors have had to drop charges of "organising pornographic activities" against a 36-year-old woman after it found that nude chat rooms were not defined in China's pornography laws.