Category — China

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!

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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

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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

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The ChinaJoy Cosplay Carnival illustrates the growth of Cosplay in China. 99.9% of people born after 1990 like comics and animation, which fuel Cosplay, whereas only 21% born in the 1970s like the media.

Read more about the China Cosplay scene on China Daily

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Even I might be tempted by this fantastic retail utopia for Barbie dolls opened recently in Shanghai!

New York-based Slade Architecture designed this first ever Barbie Flagship for Mattel. It’s a massive 35,000 square foot store holding the world’s largest and most comprehensive collection of Barbie dolls and licensed Barbie products, as well as a range of services and activities for Barbie fans and their families.

Read more on the Arch Daily

Via LostAtEMinor

Technorati Tags: Barbie dolls, China, Mattel, Shanghai, toys

June 4th, 2009, marked the 20th anniversary of the military crackdown on student protesters gathered in Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China. The Big Picture posts a series of photos with some taken in 1989 and the rest from this year.

Remembering Tiananmen, 20 years later, on the Big Picture

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