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Samsung Goes Live in Hong Kong
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New Apple Hardware Coming to HK
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Rooarrrr! Welcome to the Year of the Tiger.
We’re taking the week off, we may be back next week sporadically for the rest of the month, as we’re working on a site re-design and a new focus in the Year of the Tiger that many of you have been asking for.
So see you in a bit and don’t eat too much of that white turnip cake! Thundercats: Hooooooooo!
We have made it to the future - now, when does all that sci-fi kick in?
So, we’ve finally hit a new decade: Twenty-Ten, Two-Thousand-Ten, Two-Oh-One-Oh; whatever you call it, we were expecting a lot more advances in gadgets and technology closer to Minority Report and further away from The Road Warrior - but we still think we’re heading into an exciting and revolutionary year for gadgets!
While we have yet to make contact with aliens or power up our flying cars, this year at Neonpunch we plan to bring you more great coverage of the gadget scene around the world with a focus on Hong Kong; deliver the products we talk about through our new Neonpunch Shop (opening soon); and getting more involved in helping to shape the future of gadgets coming your way (more on that later.)
For now, please take some time to sign-up on our Hitlist, join our Facebook group or follow us on Twitter as we want to hear more from you about what you want to see more of this year on Neonpunch!
Now, excuse us while we find out why babies are being sent into space, and just who we’re supposed to make contact with this year:
Q&A with the brains behind the webshow Lumina.
With web video being the way to watch TV these days, it’s not too long when shows and movies get launched online to reach the largest audience. Hong Kong’s Jennifer Thyme of RockGinger.com has started the charge with her bi-lingual web series Lumina. We were able to catch the writer/director/producer and gave her the Neonpunch Punch-Up.
You can also see Jennifer and the cast of Lumina in person tomorrow night at the monthly Web 2.0 social mixer meet-up Web Wednesday.
What is Lumina?
LUMINA is a nine part fantasy thriller web series starring JuJu Chan, Michael Chan and Vince Matthew Chung, and is free to view on www.luminaseries.com. The story centers around a lonely young Hong Kong woman who meets a mysterious prince in a mirror – it’s a modern twist on a classic fairytale, and with any good fable, nothing is as it seems. I am the writer, director and producer of LUMINA – and as with any small business, the one who handles everything that comes our way! It’s been a fantastic learning process, and I’ve met so many great people over the last year. As a result of my work on LUMINA, I’m working on another three feature films in the upcoming year (producing two, directing one.) And I’m hoping to secure funding for LUMINA season two while I’m at it!
I have a background in finance and law, but last year, I decided to revitalise a childhood dream – filmmaking. I wanted to apply my unique work experience to create a sensible small business approach to film finance, which traditionally is rather murky, to say the least. I also was an avid MMORPG player (Final Fantasy XI) and I wanted to blend some element of that into my work as well.
What are some of your personal favorite webshows?
| October 1, 2009 |
Its been an amazing 60 years, hasn’t it?
Wikipedia tells us how it is: The People’s Republic of China was founded on October 1, 1949 with a ceremony at Tiananmen Square. The Central People’s Government passed the Resolution on the National Day of the People’s Republic of China on December 2, 1949 and declared that October 1 is the National Day.
The National Day is celebrated throughout mainland China, Hong Kong, and Macau with a variety of government-organised festivities, including fireworks and concerts. Public places, such as Tiananmen Square in Beijing, are decorated in a festive theme. Portraits of revered leaders, such as Sun Yat-sen, are publicly displayed.
See you tomorrow!
The day Nanjing stood still.
Looks like when the eclipse happened in July, not only was the sun covered but some UFO’s were filmed for 40-minutes by Nanjing university students.
Scientists at the Purple Mountain Observatory in Nanjing, China believe it is a real possibility that this footage of an unidentified flying object is the evidence we have all been waiting for.
They have confirmed 40 minutes of footage of the object was captured during this summer’s solar eclipse – and that research has already started on a year-long investigation to find out what it is.
We could insert 100 different types of jokes here but we hope its real and it would be great if Nanjing became the New Mexico of China and we could buy “I had a First Contact in Nanjing” T-shirt. Read more here.
Music format’s go to war with an Apple Cocktail.
You can viscerally see the cut-throat action between these two formats. First we heard two weeks ago that Apple was playing the good-doer in an attempt to lift the poor, befuddled, out-of-date record companies from poverty and actually start collaborating with them. They were working diligently on a project called “Cocktail” which aims to revitalize the days of old when you would put on an album and chill out.
This new file format would be a mixture of RAR, Shockwave and Flash file formats by incorporating things like track lists, original artwork, lyrics and genuine interactivity all packaged within an entire album as opposed to single tracks which has become the industry standard.
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