The princess of cantopop is also Hong Kong Twitter royalty.
We don’t think there is a single guy in Hong Kong who doesn’t know who 29-year old cantopop star Joey Yung Cho-Yee (容祖兒) is. Her popularity has been growing ever since her debut through the Emperor Entertainment Group in 1999. To celebrate the 10th anniversary of her singing career, she is planning to release three albums, a documentary, as well as a mini concert. This includes a Cantonese album, a Mandarin album in August, as well as a compilation that will be released on September 19, 2009 (exactly 10 years since the release of her first EP).
The thing we like about Joey besides her serious hotness, is that she really utilizes Web 2.0 in her marketing and staying in touch with her fans. With a new album out comes a new website at Joeyyung.hk, full of the necessary stuff like photos, CD listings, video and the usual. Joey also has a very popular blog that sits on the Yahoo! blog site at http://hk.myblog.yahoo.com/joeyyungyungyung and in this age of Twitter-mania its also of note that Joey is tweeting at @jy6 with, at this posting, has the most followers of any Hong Kong celebrity at over 5,500 followers with tweets coming in Chinese and English. So if you’re a fan, there are many ways to find out what Joey is up to.
Now let’s have a look at some of her sexier photos:
We’ve seen all kinds of USB toys, and other gizmos that work with your computer but this one takes the prize! If you are a serious Facebook person, then you should have a look at this MyDeskFriend robot toy.
This cute little robot penguin is connected to your Facebook account so it alerts you when Alerts you when your friends log in, reads updates from your Facebook homepage, receives and reads Instant Messages from your friends and you can use it to directly poke back your friends.
Besides Facebook it can also keep you informed about your favourite topics, read the weather forecast for any city, alerts you when you receive emails, or before your next important appointment.
If this is works half as great as it sets out to, then this will revolutionize toys for everyone and will bring us one step closer to the fate that awaits us as depicted in the Terminator movies, except instead of robot skeletons, the human resistance will be fighting robotic penguin!?!
Here is a video we snagged from the Get Robo blog, that shows the MyDesktopFriend’s motion detectors as it acts like a Tamagotchi on steroids:
MyDeskFriend should be out in September with a US$99/HK$780 pricetag and will definitely freak out your officemates with the surname “Connor!”
Some reasons to buy the DVD’s rather than the “China Specials”
With the announcement of this Futurama DVD box set collecting all the TV episodes and movies in this awesome Bender head box we thought we’d spotlight some of the cooler DVD box set packaging that we’ve seen in the past year. Being in Hong Kong, we all have an easy opportunity to pick up the Chinese pirated discs in the city or a jump over the border, but these fancy packages make the DVD become more than just a disc you watch and toss but a collectible piece of Pop Culture and that’s what we’re all about here at Neonpunch.com:
1. Futurama: The Complete Collection 1999-2009
As mentioned this Bender-head box collects the last decade worth of Futurama stuff. It’s coming out soon to help hype up the NEW Futurama series coming out soon, but this bad boy is going to se you back US$200/HK$1600 if you go direct to HMV Hong Kong or you can order from Amazon here and get 40% off.
2. Watchmen Blu-ray Director’s Cut (Amazon Exclusive Nite Owl Ship)
This is a crazy deluxe version available only at Amazon. Its the actual Owl-Ship with the Blu-ray director’s cut inside the base. This one will set you back about US$120/HK$1,000 and maybe, just maybe, you can see Nite-Owl and Silk Spectre II get it on inside. Available July 21, 2009.
Forget Cup Noodles, have something more fancy at your desk.
This is the smallest portable microwave in the world and its powered by a USB cable and will change instant food you see around the office forever.
Heinz is behind this, and of course they want to be the one to supply you with the food like these ready-to-heat-and-eat Snap Pots, but you can imagine the endless array of dim sum and fried rice concoctions more palatable to the Asian stomach available to overworked office staff that need a quick pick-me-up at all hours of the day.
Apart from its size, the key breakthrough is the use of a combination of mobile phone radio frequencies to create the heat to cook both on the outside and within in under a minute.
Mr Andrews, the managing director of GAMA Microwave Technology, said it is possible to ‘tune’ the radio-frequencies to provide the best results with any small product.
‘It is possible to heat a pie, a burger, a cup of soup or tea in quick time,’ he said.
While its still in prototype stage, so its up to test and feedback they get in their test markets before its launched overseas, but we can just feel that some China factories are reading this post and having ideas of their own. More about this at the Daily Mail.
A sophisticated slider phone for the Hong Kong lifestyle.
Sony Ericsson releases their T715 slider phone into the market. This phone is obviously for a mid-range market since the features seem to be a bit on the light side compared to the phones we’ve been covering over the past few weeks.
It does look nice and it’s got bluetooth and all the other standard features a mobile phone must have these days:
Elegant and compact slider – looks sophisticated no matter what the setting
Large keypad and font size – get the most out of your SMS or email management
3G network connection – quick and easy internet browsing
Large 2.2” screen – even in direct sunlight
Smart desktop and birthday reminders – organize your life in an intuitive way
3.2 megapixel camera with Photo light – perfect pictures no matter what the lighting conditions
The T715 will be available in Hong Kong in Q3 2009. In the video below you get a better idea of the size and exactly who Sony is targeting with this type of phone:
Stylish leather laptop bag with a multitude of foldable variations.
You not a Mac guy? Want to have your ThinkPad stand out amongst your friends? Well Austria-based design firm Hard Graft brings us this leather-crafted in Italy laptop bag really takes portable laptop style to the next level.
It can take a 13″ or a 17″ laptop is made from premium Italian hand-picked, hand-tanned and hand-finished leather offers eight different ways for you to sport it.
3 zipper pockets
2 main outside pockets with magnetic closures
no obtrusive inside pockets
flexible shock absorbant inner layer
heavy duty waterproof inner lining in pitch black
concealed nylon zipper
You order yours for HK$3,800 / €349.00click here to check out more photos and to place your online order.
Is it another hit for Michael Bay or his worst movie ever?
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen came out in Hong Kong last Wednesday. We didn’t bother to write a full review on this movie because basically we know that everyone is going to see it no matter what. If you liked the first one most likely you will somewhat enjoy the sequel.
So we’re turning the review responsibilities to our readers. Did you see it in a regular 35mm cinema or did you traipse out to Megabox to see it in IMAX (Which we hear is sold out for the next few weeks)? Were you offended by the 2 robots above? Not enough Megan Fox? Want to kill Shia LeBoef? Easily just pick one choice from the poll below or type out a few words, we want to hear from you.
Head out to your local phone superstore and grab one of these new Nokia’s.
Nokia Hong Kong has just updated us on these 2 handsets that we’ve covered in the past. The Nokia XpressMusic we covered back in March and its on sale now in June, if you are keeping track! We hope to get a N86 in the office soon so we can give you a review.
5730 XpressMusic: the first XpressMusic phone with QWERTY keypad
Price: HK$3,098
N86 8MP: the first phone with 8.0 Megapixel camera from Nokia
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