Category — China

This is going back a bit, back to the 2008 Olympics in China when all sorts of patriotism was happening amongst the Chinese population. This guy decided that he should try and break his previous Guinness World Record of sticking 1790 needles into himself, by sticking 2008 of them – for the Olympics.

Was it “pointless“? Obviously not! He set a new world record and probably spread the word about acupuncture successfully.

Via WeirdAsiaNews

Technorati Tags: China, Olympics, Guinness World Record

Pakistan and China have a close friendship that’s demonstrated by this girl who sings the Pakistan National Anthem to wish the country a Happy Independence Day!

Since its release on the 14th, the video has received over 9000 unique hits!

Via Pro-Pakistan

Technorati Tags: China, Pakistan National Anthem, Pakistan, video

Chinese ingenuity shows its head again in 20 year old Chinese farmer Wu Zhongyuan, who has built a home-made helicopter using wood and a motorcycle engine..

Wu built himself the contraption using what he remembers of middle school physics lessons and “relevant knowledge [found while] surfing the Internet via my mobile phone.”

His single-seater conveyance has blades made from the wood of an Elm tree, a frame reinforced with steel pipes and uses an engine from a motorcycle — all for around $1,600. Wu claims the ‘copter can get him as high as 2,600 feet, though it seems he’s grounded for the time being as the Chinese government has forbid him to fly because of safety reasons.

Via Neatorama

Technorati Tags: China, ideas, home-made helicopter

This video shows the distinctive voice talents of Li Wenxing, a 52 year-old music teacher in China, who can sing across 6 octaves. In it, Li is practising to break the world record for the world’s widest vocal range.

Thanks David!

Technorati Tags: China, music, singing, voice, worlds widest vocal range

Someone in China (not Japan?) customised this Gundam robot with jewels and it looks good, if a little feminine (nothing wrong with that!). I suspect the decoration came from all the phone decals that are common in Hong Kong and Japan, and probably China too.

You can see more photos of the Pink Gundam here

Seen on TokyoMango

Technorati Tags: China, crafts, customised cars, customised robot models, Gundam, ideas, Japan, phone decals

Watch this superb and luscious animation created by Ani7ime Studio. It was created by students at the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts and runs just under 15 minutes.

Called “Brain Water” it tells the story of mental pressure, depicting kids being constantly forced to do their home work by overbearing monsters. They have water for brains that can get heated by tension, and when over-stressed, the kids produce steam that feed the monsters and the city they live in.

Via 88-Bar

Technorati Tags: Ani7ime Studio, animation, Brain Water, China, Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts

In this financial climate, do you think the bank is the best place to keep your money, with its crap interest rate? Well, its safer than keeping your cash in your house if this Chinese man’s luck is anything to go by.

Last month, 80 year old Yang Lihong found his life savings, amounting to RMB 18,000 (over US$2,600), had been chewed to pieces by mice in his house in southeast China’s Zhejiang province.

Yang had been keeping all the notes in his stove and found them in pieces when he decide to retrieve some to buy rice. He worked as a guard for a local factory and had saved all the money after ten years.

Yang took his torn bills to his local Agricultural Bank and was able to have six thousand yuan replaced. To avoid the same thing happening again, Yang chose to place the remaining money in the bank.

From Crienglish Via WeirdChina on Twitter

Technorati Tags: China, mice, money eaten by mice, Yang Lihong

Chinese senior citizen, Lin Shuseng, 78, has developed a full body massage chair completely from scrap. The result looks like a steampunk contraption that only lovers of the movement would probably insert themselves into!

Shuseng spent 8 years to create the massage chair to help ease off his wife’s ailing joints by giving her neck and full body massages. It also has an electric pot to warm the seat.

Read more on GizmoWatch

Via Ubergizmo

Technorati Tags: China, gadgets, Lin Shuseng, massage, massage chair, steampunk, steampunk massage chair

Shanghai designer Jiang Qian created a kinetic charger concept that takes the idea of those traditional Chinese baoding balls and uses them to harness energy to charge AA and AAA batteries.

The Roll Charger harnesses energy from the ball’s motion when they’re rotating in your palm and include LED indicators for when the batteries are charged.

Since the balls work like shiatsu massage and stimulate acupuncture points in the fingers, these would be great for your body and good for the environment too!

Read more on Treehugger.com

Technorati Tags: acupuncture, Chinese baoding balls, Jiang Qian, Roll Charger, Shanghai, Traditional Chinese medicine

A motion graphics graduating student in China creates a self promotional video featuring himself manipulating various graphics.

It’s superbly done, and is wildly popular on the hosted site Youku, where its viewed over a million times with over 3,000 comments.

Via 88-Bar.com

Technorati Tags: China, motion graphics, promotional video, self promotion, video