Tuesday. 9 February 2010. 2:30 pm
It seems like only yesterday we were featuring a new line of Vaio’s.
Its the Rise of the Super Slim Laptops! It looks like users are demanding thinner yet more powerful laptops and Sony is delivering with 3 new notebooks: the Vaio Z, E and W series.
- The Vaio Z weighs in at 1.4kg with a 13.1-inch HD LCD screen with a Intel Core i7 CPU and a Quad Solid state drive.
- the Vaio E features a 15.5” real-wide Full HD high-resolution 16:9 VAIO display is capable of playing videos with Full HD resolutions of up to 1,920 x 1,080.
- The eco-friendly Vaio W features a number of environmentally friendly elements in its design, production and packaging and helps reduce CO2 emissions through the use of recycled plastic in the production process.
Committed in helping address climate change, Sony is cooperating with WWF-Hong Kong and donating HK$200 for each unit of the VPCW21EAG/WI sold at the Sony Style stores.
All 3 new Vaio laptops are available in Hong Kong at the end of February 2010.
Tuesday. 9 February 2010. 10:13 am
Neonpunch goes “GaGa” at the sight of “Gogo!”
Last Saturday Chiaki Kuriyama was in Hong Kong to promote her upcoming debut single “Ryusei no Namida” (Tears of Meteors).
Kuriyama became a modern movie icon in director Quentin Tarantino’s 2004 film Kill Bill, Volume I as Gogo Yubari, the schoolgirl yakuza bodyguard of Tokyo mob mistress O-Ren Ishii.
Kuriyama’s has scored a major coup by having her first single used for the new Gundam Unicorn movie series that premieres in Japanese cinemas on February 20th. A number of artist have seen their singing careers rocket into the next galaxy thanks to the Gundam anime franchise. The Gundam Unicorn movie is based on a popular light novel series written by Harutoshi Fukui. Directing the big screen anime adaption is Furuhashi Kazuhiro who directed “Rurouni Kenshin” and “Hunter X Hunter” and many others.
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Monday. 8 February 2010. 10:26 am
Watch your fingers on this one, its less than 10mm thick.
As parts get smaller, laptops get thinner and the Dell Adamo XPS looks like the one to beat.
It’s a measly 9.99mm thin but its not all looks and no brain, the Adamo XPS has 4GB DDR3 800 memory, Intel Core 2 Duo (1.4Ghz) ultra-low voltage processor, 128GB SSD for faster, cooler, quieter and more durable storage and a A13.4-inch High-Definition display.
When you open the Adamo, derived from the Latin word meaning “to fall in love,” the body is raised so the keyboard is angled to enhance cooling, a capacitive latching device like the iPhone, built in location awareness and it comes with Windows 7 64-bit edition.
The pencil-thin Adamo XPS weighs just over 3 pounds, measures 34 x 27.3 cm and you’re looking at prices starting at HK$25,999. More information is available at http://www.adamobydell.com.hk/.
We hope to get a demo unit into the Neonpunch offices in the next week or 2 and see if the Adamo XPS is worth the money.
Friday. 5 February 2010. 2:50 pm
It’s not AS geeky if it’s in Soho right?
Come out and have some drinks with the iElite next Wednesday, February 10th at RED SoHo and hear about the latest iPhone apps and voice your eternal hatred of the iPad (or at least until it comes out, in which you may change your tune) at the February iPhanatics Hong Kong meet-up.
The meet-up is centered around iPhone and iPhone apps, but it seems its drawing all kinds of Apple fans in Hong Kong as people want to talk Macbooks, iWork, iLife, iTunes and of course the big buzz word this time will be: iPad.
The people from Powermat will be there to demo live their wireless recharging station that will soon be available in Hong Kong and offer some special promotions. iKit and Ultimate Mac and PC Gallery will also be there showing off their iPhone accessories.
Details for the event are below, RSVP via Facebook:
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Friday. 5 February 2010. 11:15 am
Don’t be late for this very important date.
After you’ve Avatar’ed the hell out of yourself this past 60 days, its time to avert your gaze to some new films opening in Hong Kong.
One of the more clever visual looking films coming this year is again from the mind of director Tim Burton. We think Burton is hit (Sleepy Hollow) and miss (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory) we are very excited to see what he does with the Alice in Wonderland story.
We hope you didn’t throw away your Avatar glasses because Alice in Wonderland will be in 3D and opens in Hong Kong on March 4th and looks like it will be bumping out Avatar in either both or at least one of the IMAX cinemas in Hong Kong.
Hong Kong poster and trailer are below.
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Friday. 5 February 2010. 10:48 am
Celebrate the Year of the Tiger with a Fox.
It’s good to see more stop-motion animated movies in the cinemas again. Last year’s Coraline was a marvel to look at, but if little girls with button eyes didn’t do it for you, George Clooney thinks his Fantastic Mr. Fox may be more to your liking, which opens in Hong Kong on March 25, 2010.
Based on the book by Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’s Roald Dahl, this version directed by Wes Anderson featuring the voices of Clooney, Meryl Streep, Owen Wilson and Bill Murray has been 2 years in the making. The interesting thing about this production is that all the voices were recorded outside instead of in a studio giving them a more spontaneous and alive feeling than maybe a more still performance you’d get inside a small sound booth.
Fantastic Mr. Fox came out in November in the US and has garnered a lot of great reviews and it recently was nominated for Best Animated Feature Film at the Golden Globes but lost to Pixar’s Up – but has 2 Academy Award nominations – and thanks to that we get a theatrical release for this film in Hong Kong.
The trailer and more information on the stop motion technique is below.
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Thursday. 4 February 2010. 10:48 am
An A to Z city guide on your mobile phone.
Tired of lugging around a big old guide book with you when you go on holiday or a business trip? Want a city guide book that is pocket sized and doesn’t weigh like you have the entire Encyclopedia Britannica in your jacket pocket? 1010 Mobile network users can rejoice in the fact that they can now download to their mobile phone LUXE City Guides.
Currently 1010 users can download these ten popular destinations including New York, Hong Kong & Macau, Paris, London, Shanghai, Singapore, Rome, Bali, Sydney, and Bangkok and more cities to become available in the future. Each guide is highly researched and contains info on the finest dining, leisure, culture, accommodation and city secrets that most visitors would simply never find.
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