Affordable 3D Printers Target to Become a Common Household Product in China

Star Chang, Feb 15, 2013 3:06 PM, 870 views, Got something to say ?,

Industry insiders predicted that in future, 3D printers will become more affordable for households in China when the applications of 3D printing technology start being used widely. A newly opened store in Beijing allowed consumers to try out the new 3D printing service, but the price of printing a 15-cm high figurine was about 800 yuan (US$128). It is still costly for some casual consumers, because the printers used in the store are imported precision machines and the prices of materials it used were also high, hence making the printing more expensive. Some domestically produced 3D printers are already priced much cheaper than import model. They can be purchased on taobao.com, the country biggest online marketplace, at the priced between 3,000 yuan (US$481) and 5,000 yuan (US$802) …

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3D Art Delights Customers in China

Star Chang, Dec 19, 2012 9:06 AM, 928 views, 1 Comment »,

A host of 3D paintings at a shopping mall in Tianjin has been entertaining customers. For those of us still new to the concept, a 3D painting is any artistic effort that gives the illusion of being three-dimensional. The projection technique used for creating such works of art is called anamorphosis. It involves the drawing of an illusion (Anamorphic) with a special distortion in order to create an impression of three dimensions when seen from a particular viewpoint. The mini-exhibition in Tianjin features many humorous paintings that have kept local customer amused and in good cheer. Check out some of these most entertaining and deceptive paintings.

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Vocational School Teaches Chinese Students to Become Online Retailers

Kevin Chen, Oct 24, 2012 9:10 AM, 752 views, Got something to say ?,

A vocational school in China offers speical course which trains students to become online business owners by setting shop on the consumer e-commerce site, Taobao Marketplace. It says one of the graduates currently has an annual turnover of 10 million yuan (US$1.6 million). The first batch of students graduated in June from the Yiwu Industrial and Commercial College, located in the Zhejiang province, eastern China. Yiwu is the place well-known as the ‘China Commodity City’, where it is the largest small commodity wholesale market in the world. With huge geographic advantage, the school has been the focus since it launched its entrepreneurial classes three years ago …

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China Biggest Online Retailer Launches 3D Virtual Supermarkets (Video)

Kevin Chen, Oct 24, 2012 8:07 AM, 547 views, Got something to say ?,

Just imagine how it will look like if several people walk around blank city spaces with their eyes focusing on their cellphone screens, looking for something ? This is an new online shopping idea proposed by the biggest supermarket e-commerce site in China. Yihaodian is the first Chinese company introducing virtual shopping to China mobile users, now there is another new creation thought to be an upgraded version of QR code shopping. With the help of Augmented Reality (AR) technology and smartphone camera function, customers can locate the 3D virtual store as marked on the phone screen. To QR code shopping experience, AR means it will be even more virtualize …

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James Cameron vs. Chinese ‘Waldrobe Malfunction’

Star Chang, Aug 10, 2012 2:29 PM, 3,538 views, 2 Comments »,

Hollywood famous director James Cameron announced that his company will co-produce a 3D film highlighting the history of Beijing with Chinese filmmakers. The film will depict the 800-year history of the Chinese capital. During the memorandum signing event held in Beijing, a young Chinese female attendant has ‘waldrobe malfunction’ while serving the signing documents to Cameron, it has created some embarrassment on the scene …

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James Cameron Creates World-class 3D Movie Studio in China

Star Chang, Jul 16, 2012 10:08 AM, 649 views, Got something to say ?,

Hollywood director James Cameron will create a world-class 3D movie studio in Tianjin, China, partnership with a local Chinese cinema company. The new company will mainly depend on Cameron’s team to research 3D technology and produce 3D films. Market rumors said Cameron plans to produce a 3D documentary called ‘Deepsea Challenge‘ with China’s resources about his recent dive to the bottom of the Mariana Trench, the deepest part of the world’s oceans. The new 3D base will formally establish at the end of this month, and it is expected to boost economic growth and to create sales up to 500 million yuan (US$78 million) every year …

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Huawei Aims to offer Motion-sensing Technology for Smartphones and Tablets

Star Chang, May 1, 2012 9:36 PM, 551 views, 2 Comments »,

Huawei is aiming to bring touch-free smartphones to users, as the company boosts its research and development spending. A touch-free smartphones will allow the devices to read users’ hand gestures in order to initiate commands. Touchscreen smartphones and tablets currently allow for the use of several fingers to issue certain commands when pressed on the display. But users only have five fingers on a hand, limiting the number of commands that can be made. Using hand gestures would allow users more easily to control the smartphone’s graphical user interface. Huawei, however, expects this functionality will need a powerful graphics processor and also two front-facing cameras, the technology will likely to start on tablets device first. Last year, Apple has already seeked a similar patents for this, and SONY has also announced a new Android-based smartphone comes with ‘floating touch’ navigation. So whatever Huawei is up to, motion-sensing technology will properly be the ‘next big thing’.

James Cameron Believes Chinese Moviegoers Want to Touch 3D Boobs, not 3D Iceberg

Star Chang, Apr 15, 2012 6:13 AM, 2,901 views, Got something to say ?,

Chinese moviegoers hoping to catch the re-release of Titanic in 3D won’t get to see Kate Winslet’s boobs. Many Chinese were dismayed to find that the release of Titanic 3D in China is not quite the film they remembered. During the peak romantic moment when Kate Winslet as Rose poses nude for Leonardo DiCaprio to sketch her, Winslet is now cropped from the neck up. In 1997, the scene was completely uncut and displayed on a wide screen in China, which was deeply registered in the memory of Chinese. Naturally, Chinese viewers are now upset and they were complaining about the censoring. Some even lampooned the authorities with a fake news story, which has fooled many major media outlets, including James Cameron himself …

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4D Porn movie Coming Soon in Hong Kong With Vibrating Seat

Maggie Hui, Mar 17, 2012 2:51 PM, 17,562 views, 4 Comments »,

One of the Hong Kong film producing company recently announced the plans to release a 4D adult film after the successful of its 3D adult film across Asia last year. The producer got an idea of having moviegoers watch the film in cinema with the added sensation of a vibrating seat which would bring more excitement to the viewers. This technology has been already installed in two of the Hong Kong cinemas. The new movie will also enhance the erotic scenes to satisfy the moviegoers who have complained the previous 3D porn was not intense enough …

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Huawei Readying 10-Inch Ice Cream Sandwich Tablet to Compete with iPad 3

Herman Lai, Feb 17, 2012 1:00 PM, 1,448 views, 1 Comment »,

After the AT&T branded 4G (HSPA+) Huawei MediaPad headed to America, the chairman of Huawei said the company will launch a tablet named MediaPad 10 FHD at Mobile World Congress 2012 (MWC), and claimed it will become the “highest-end tablet in the world“.

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