Hip Young Thing – nice collection of design, great source of inspiration for ideas Information outlaws through the ages – CultureLab – New Scientist The Pitch HK: Chui Sui Central: China’s Gen Y brand sirens Air New Zealand reveals new lie-flat design for economy class | Upgrade: Travel Better – I’d like to see how [...]
Tsui Wah is a regular sight here in Hong Kong with 13 branches around the place. It provides good quality food at a reasonable price. It has a menu that covers Chinese dishes, Malaysian curries and western food. Vegetarians are catered for too, I enjoyed a nice vegetable curry with a fried egg and rice. [...]
Goldman Sachs was widely credited with coming up with the concept of the BRICs a decade ago. An acronym for Brazil, Russell, India and China – the countries that they thought would be the economic engines of the world. Business Insider has thought about who would be the tier two countries who are most likely [...]
My Mum loves a bargain and looks forward to sales at her local stores. Like many people she thinks that some stores may put in special stock that they have shipped in to sell especially at this time amongst items that have just not sold. Allied Carpets was often the butt of jokes for its [...]
ChristianLindholm.com: iPad – I am torn – too big for mobile casual usage. – interesting take by Christian Lindholm on the iPad LOOKBOOK.nu: collective fashion consciousness. Privacy pioneer search engine launches anonymous surfing service | Pinsent Masons LLP Anatomy of a Stock | Aitken | Waterman production – interesting insight from a sound engineering perspective [...]
Countdown on the traffic lights, originally uploaded by renaissancechambara. One of the most interesting things I found during my time in Shenzhen was the concept of time and traffic congestion. Waiting at a traffic lights is a time for catching up on reading, making phone calls, sending text messages or returning emails. Hands-free kits are [...]
I was chatting about the iPad after catching up with the news that happened overnight my time. One viewpoint i found particularly interesting. “An iPad would be good for a woman. It is small, stylish, easy and light to carry, you don’t need to bring a laptop with you travelling any more; you can just [...]
Dang Gao (cake), originally uploaded by renaissancechambara. Just because.
Google’s corporate store has a version of the Fujifilm plug adaptor that is much cheaper than the Fuji one. Whilst I was browsing on there, I came across this mug which I thought was a really sweet design. Though it looks like a throw-away coffee cup. It is actually a double wall ceramic mug with [...]
Electric scooter, originally uploaded by renaissancechambara. These are probably the scariest things that you are likely to encounter in China. They are fast enough to be dangerous, but slow enough to be annoying for other road users. They make no sound so pedestrians can’t hear them coming. It doesn’t pay to be green in this [...]
Reckoning with Chinese Gen Y – BusinessWeek – interesting take on how consumer behaviour in China is and isn’t changing American Science & Surplus : Items Just Off the Truck – design and kitsch ideas here How US consumer spending is changing – McKinsey Quarterly – long lasting conservative consumption patterns Japan’s luxury shoppers move [...]
I caught up with the Apple Inc. earnings announcement first thing this morning my time. I found it nigh impossible to get a quarter-on-quarter comparison mainly because the media weren’t sure what the numbers meant with the accounting change so just went with the big topline number. That overseas now counts for almost 60 per [...]
The first sets of coverage from the Consumer Electronics Show had a wide range of companies including Motorola, Microsoft, NVIDIA and H-P all have been talking up the tablet form-factor. However there also needs to be a bit of reality sprinkled in amongst the hype. So here is my contribution: Touch-typing is becoming more common [...]
Whilst traveling on Hong Kong’s MTR service I noticed an advert for some sort of baby food-related product from Wyeth. The reason why I sound a bit vague at this point is that I can’t read or speak any Chinese dialect. The one bit of the advert that stood out for me was a brief [...]
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