New Samsung Signboard Illuminates Victoria Harbor

Something big and bright on top of Harcourt House and Mass Mutual Tower.

When you look over to Hong Kong side from Tsim Sha Tsui be prepared to see this new Samsung signboard.

Samsung launched similar signboards in New York and London, so while we don’t necessarily need another neon sign in our sky, it is interesting that the Korean company chose HK as the third city and not somewhere closer to their headquarters like Seoul or Shanghai.

It must be because Samsung have managed to work their signboard into the Symphony of Light events that happen over the harbor. In order to tie in with that show, the Samsung LED signboard will cast a light into the sky over Victoria Harbor from 8:00-8:15pm every night. Images on the signage will synchronize with the music, while the signage emits colors into the sky together with the lighting, spotlights and lasers from buildings on both sides of the harbor. And no doubt from 8:16pm onwards there will be “messages” about Samsung’s line of products.

OK so it’s not a total hard-sell from Samsung, the signage will show “Welcome” messages in various languages and show the time such as the time at certain times every morning, to convenience people on both sides of the harbor.

And you can get on the signboard too; Samsung will allow Hong Kong citizens and tourists to post messages through the LED signage during festivals. The first session will be hosted from Sept. 23 to 27. You can go to their site here (English and Chinese) to post your message and it’ll be shown on the Samsung LED signage from 7:30-8:00pm and 8:15-8:45pm on Oct. 1, China’s National Day.

What would be really cool is if you could Twitter the tag #SamsungHongKong at a specific time and your message would appear on the signboard.

Hey, if you’re going to burn the electricity to do this you might as well give us something we can use, right? At least the event brought out the lovely Ms. Gaile Lai, someone who can light up the harbor without any electricity:

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Real Gundam Lights up the Tokyo Skyline

The 59-foot Gundam in Odaiba has been plugged in.

This is just too amazingly cool not to share. By now you’ve seen this amazing 59-foot Gundam in the day being assembled (see photos here and here) but now its just been plugged in and you can hear the “gasp” of a zillion fanboys around the blogosphere all at once. And what a great way to start off your week!

More night photos at Pink Tentacle. Video below:

iPhone Event at Racks on March 17

Cocktails and 8-ball at the first iPhanatics Hong Kong gathering.

Hey we’re having our first gadget event on March 17th at Racks in Central, and you are invited.

It’s called iPhanatics and it’s all about iPhones and iPods. We’ll be having some moderated talk on news, apps, tips and tricks with drink specials, 8-ball and lucky draw for some fancy iPhone 3G cases. And its absolutely free!

If you are interested please click on over to iPhanatics.com and register your email. All the details are there and all are welcome but we have a limited space at Racks in Central so best that you reister as soon as you can.

You can also join the Facebook group for this and keep up the iPhone chit chat there.

Hey Edison! Thanks for our First Four-Babe Friday

A salute to the brave women from Edison’s laptop.

We’re sure you’ve been following the latest resurgence of everyone’s favorite Hong Kong bad boy Edison Chen, as he testifies in court in Vancouver about the photos that took Hong Kong by storm this time last year.

So in honor of the four women that he just had to name again and bring back into the spotlight who had hoped this would have blown over by now, we’re going to showcase them to you from happier times and that Hong Kong people have to get over themselves and let these beautiful and talented girls back into the spotlight. Sorry no nudity here, just these pretty ladies looking their best.

First up, we have Cecilia Cheung (張柏芝): Read more