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Transformer got Shanzhai-ed in China, Built from an old truck, 9.7 meters in height

XLeung — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 15:19:39 +0000

A group of students from China Central Academy Of Fine Arts University built a Shanzhai version transformer as their Graduation Project. The materials are all from an old truck, and the whole project cost them around 300,000 Yuan (about $4,470 USD) in total. This Shanzhai transformer is 9.7 meters in height, 4,000 KG in weight. The design is of curse taken from the famous transformer. The only original parts are the face and the sword, which are based on a Chinese historical hero ‘Guan Gong’.

[Source: 163.com]

Funny DIY Device With Subtle Control of Steel Balls’ tracks

XLeung — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 14:56:52 +0000

Someone is making comments like ‘I don’t know what’s the use of it except wasting electric power’ below this video on youku.com, but we want to show our admirations. It’s amazing as a device made by a human’s hand just for fun. Steel balls are subtly controlled on three tracks by the device which is powered by an AAA battery. In the 4.15 minutes video, only one ball run out of its track.

[Source:Youku]

Chinese farmer built a plane for his dream, carried out brave but dangerous flight test

XLeung — Tue, 11 May 2010 15:58:43 +0000

A video about Chinese farmer Shu Mansheng and his plane gets featured on China’s biggest video website youku.com as the daily hottest videos. The story is that Mr. Shu carried out a live flight test with his home-brew plane which he took a month to built and cost him about $14,700 dollars. The plane really can fly, but only last 3 seconds and fell back to earth totally out of control. Thankfully his plane wasn’t able to fly higher or we just can’t imagine what would happen. It seems he just got light hurt on his legs and hands.

Before the flight, while being asked why he built the plane, Shu Mansheng Said it’s for his dream. He said his dream is to establish a school to give perfect teaching. No mention about what kind of school he wants to establish, perhaps a flight school or an engineering school, or just ordinary school to bring better education to children? His mother was there supporting him. Talking about his son, she seems proud and a little anxious, said, “He doesn’t fear”.

[Source: youku]

Funny video:Apple’s Beijing store attacked by a Terminator robot

XLeung — Mon, 03 May 2010 14:26:31 +0000

Now this video ‘The secret mission of the terminator’ with great 3D effects is circulating on Chinese websites. In the video the terminator was on the mission of damaging Apple’s Beijing store. But it’s too hungry to move so it begged nearby with a ‘$ only’ plate. Finally it got a coin but the Coca cola vending machine threw out nothing after it put in the coin. Thanks to that the terminator didn’t have enough strength so it could only attack the store from distance and the big Apple logo was damaged.(Update: Garth Douglas is right, the machine the Terminator put the coin in actually is a electricity charging machine, sorry for my mistake. ).At the end of the video after successfully damaging the Apple logo, the Terminator showed out a Microsoft Windows 7 poster with ‘Thanks’ written on it. So the Terminator might be sent by Microsoft!

Some of the Chinese citizens doubted the video is Microsoft’s advertisement, because it’s obviously biased on Microsoft . For this the maker laxina said no and that it’s just an experimental work he made in his spare time, not a commercial video at all. Well, at least he’s a Microsoft fan, if not an apple hater.

[Source: Youku.com]

Luxury villa built on the sea

XLeung — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 07:38:09 +0000

Nowadays it’s normal that we hear some extremely rich people buy a small island and build a luxury villa on it. But this villa we’re talking about is not built on a small island. It was built on the sea, floating like a huge boat with an area of several thousand square meters, and was fastened to the huge rocks on the beach. It sounds like someone has built a small island out of the sea. This villa even contains a horse race track.

The horse race track in the villa

It was found on a sea bay off the Shenzhen coast. Of curse it doesn’t appear overnight. According to the local fishers, it has been there for five years and its area has been expanding all the time. At usual, only some workers live on it. Its host will come in weekend and having parties with friends.The locals call this villa ” Hai shang Huang Gong”, which means ” a Palace built on the sea”.

It’s said the host is sued currently by a local government department that manages the fishery, for the usage of that sea area the building taking up is unlicensed.

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Yet another Lego Mindstorms Rubik’s Cube Solver

XLeung — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 14:05:21 +0000

One and a half year before, the cool guy Hans Andersson has built a Rubik’s Cube solving robot called Tilted Twister that is based on the Lego Mindstorms kit. Here another cool guy called Dynamic Old Boy (translated literally from Chinese to English) brings us another Rubik’s Cube solving robot which is also based on a Lego Mindstorms kit. Dynamic Old Boy honestly admitted the design of his robot was inspired by Hans Andersson’s work. Though he is not the first one to make this kind of robot, but I still think he is pretty cool. This robot can solve the Rubik’s Cube in 3 to 5 minutes with 25 moves at average. The maker also has written a very detailed tutorial, by which you can follow step by step to built your own Rubik’s Cube Solving robot, but it’s a little pity that the tutorial is Chinese.

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Video: iMac is smoking

XLeung — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 06:10:42 +0000

This video appeared on Chinese tech website cnbeta. According to the author, he captured this video in this office, with an iPhone. He said the iMac monitor suddenly smoked, and the smoke was gray, and then the screen went black.By that time, he cut off the power. So there should be no fire finally.

The author added:
What would Jobs think if he is watching this video?

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Homebrewed Classic Rolls-Royce Car

XLeung — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 05:39:18 +0000

Wei is getting famous in China. He and his homebrewed Classic Rolls-Royce appeared on the Chinese newspaper and websites. Wei is 30 years old, a car enthusiast. Last year he firstly saw a classic Rolls-Royce car built in 1920s on a magizine. He’s crazy for this car and a sudden though came into his mind, ” Why not make one myself .” He started doing this at once. From that on he poured all his time working on this plan. after a year’s hard working, He succeeded. The materials and tools cost him 30,000RMB (about $4,400). This handcraft was based on an eight cylinder engine with 4000 cc driving force. Wei said his homebrewed Rolls-Royce can reach a highest speed of 200 km/h. “it’s really cool to drive “, said wei,” cooler than driving a BMW or Benz car. After a test drive, the reporter said it felt like not too much different with other cars, and the throttle and brakes are very sensitive.

Spy phone with a camera hidden in a fake battery

XLeung — Fri, 22 May 2009 15:59:07 +0000

A few days ago this phone was posted on the homepage of netease, one of the biggest Chinese website, described as ” The most evil phone in the world ever”. The post got lots of responses from the netzens. ” where I can buy this phone” was frequently asked. The phone they talk about is called HONCAO V8 . The special thing about this phone is that it shipped with a wireless camera,which is made like a battery. The phone equipped with a 2.4Ghz wireless camera receiver and recorder. It’s said that this phone can monitor four wireless camera at maximum. the phone also offers a 2.8 inch QVGA 16 megapixel display.

Two battery? No, the black one is a wireless camera

Yao Ming Look-alike and Yi Jianlian Look-alike

XLeung — Mon, 04 May 2009 15:50:58 +0000

Many can’t believe their eyes when they saw this picture: Yao look-alike and Yi look-alike in the same picture! This picture got popular on the Internet half of a month ago. Really amazing. There are more than 1.3 billion chinese in the world so maybe it’s not too hard to find someone’s look-alike but it’s different that two NBA stars’ look-alike appeared in the same picture. It seems that they are acquaintances.some people jokingly said that is a picture Yao and Yi took in their childhood

Yao Look-alike and Yi Look-alike