Look better than the other naked people on Chatroulette.
Sony Corporation of Hong Kong Limited today introduced fashionable new additions to its range of PC headsets designed for music listening, online multi-player gaming, and hands-free web chats as well as VoIP calls on MSN Messenger and Skype.
DR-350USB: Designed for audio excellence
With the supplied USB cable, the DR-350USB headset offers users crisp, clear sound by eliminating noise from the PC through digital transmission via a USB connection. The DR-350USB also features a microphone muting function, which is extremely useful when one is engaged in a video conference call with multiple participants or during multi-player game sessions. On top of that, the DR-350USB offers the same benefits as the DR-320DPV, boasting a 30mm driver unit, built-in microphone and a detachable voice tube for comfort and convenience. The DR-350USB is available in three classic colors of Black, Gold and Red. (pictured above)
Stuff that’s on the Neonpunch web radar this week.
Google Buzz
Not into Twitter? Want to try micro-blogging? Google has jumped into the ring with Buzz. If you use Gmail in Hong Kong you have most likely seen it this morning – let us know what you think. You can follow us via our Gmail account if you like. Some love it. Some hate it. And, some are scared of it. More here.
Facebook Chat
Not only do 100 million people access Facebook on their mobile devices, but now you can instant message your friends outside of Facebook. Looks like Facebook is pulling it out and sticking it wherever you go now. So if you use IM clients like iChat, Pidgin, Adium, Miranda and others you can now chat to your Facebook friends from there. More here.
iPad iTalk
The online chatter leading up to the iPad launch was loud, and now 2 weeks after its still as loud as ever. Here are some of the stories that we’ve been reading today about the iPad:
D’oh! Can you believe it’s been 20 years since Homer, Marge, Maggie, Lisa and Bart first entered our lives? Some of you reading Neonpunch were probably little kids when the yellow-colored family hit the airwaves in 1990 and dug the show for its basic Bart awesomeness. As you grew and as the show gained popularity, its in-jokes and adult comedy shone through to make it the most sucessful animated TV series of all time.
So, to celebrate 20 years, here is a desktop app that takes The Simpsons to a new level in awesome. Play digital tricks on your friends and invite them to compete with you to see who becomes the Prince O’Pranks. Have Homer keep you virtual company on your desktop while you work or play. Get updates on the latest and greatest episodes and info from your favorite TV show.
Your whole desktop becomes a Simpsons interface with Homer walking around showing you pranks you can play on your Facebook friends. Add your friends in and, while they have the Simpsons interface up, you can attack them with Duff Beer Bombs, Itchy and Scratchy bombs, Radiation sticks, baby bottles and more.
You’ll need Adobe Air and a Facebook account and you’re all ready to go!
Hong Kong’s popular restaurant review site launches “gweilo” version.
…and all the expats let out a huge sigh of relief, and probably tons of upscale Hong Kong island restaurants as well!
Openrice.com, the mega-popular Top 10 Hong Kong website for finding and reviewing restaurants, just launched in English and is decidedly more upper class looking than the Chinese version. Since a fair percentage of reviews in the Chinese version were in English, they had instant content to pull over to the all-English version, so you get a good look at restaurants like Cova from 2006.
With more focus on Western and European restaurants, the English version still brings you location-based dining by district, reviews and lots of photos. Sure, it’s not as eloquent and Web 2.0 as some of the ones in the U.S., but it’s still the best we have for now! You’ll also find coupons, reviews, recipes, forums and food news as well.
And yes, they have an iPhone and Android enhanced version of their site, so you can check out the higher-rated restaurants based on district when you are actually standing on the street with your mobile phone.
Hey, they know who’s reading their site when the 3 main categories are: French, American and Central!
Hong Kong’s original web-only fantasy thriller to kick-off new web TV channel.
Keanu Reeves is doing it. So is Ridley Scott. Web series are being created by some big name Hollywood talent! Offering viewers just a tidbit at a time – teasing them into loyalty with short form narratives (typically four to eight minutes) in a serial format (ten to thirty “webisodes”) each. And now we can put Hong Kong on the map for having its very own high-end web series too, in the thriller: Lumina.
KoldCast TV has selected Lumina to launch KoldCast TV’s International channel because it is “a thrilling fairytale about love, longing and greed… a timeless story that just so happens to be taking place in Hong Kong.” Thanks Christopher Nolan, for making us appear more than just a place for cheap chop sockey flicks!
Lumina writer and director Jennifer Thym is grateful for the opportunity to be seen by an international audience and states:
“Web series is still a burgeoning medium, and KoldCast’s strategy of being selective about its programming and pro-active about marketing is exactly what the field needs right now. I’m so excited that LUMINA is now on their slate – it’s a big step for a new Hong Kong production like ours!”
The storyline features a stressed-out workaholic (played by the beautiful JuJu Chan) who discovers a dark power within herself and flirts with a new life in a dangerous secret-world. And you thought it would be about tai-tai’s talking or gangsters killing.
The biggest and most interesting thing is that they are filming this using The Red One camera. We didn’t even know they had any here. We’ve posted about The Red One before but we are impressed that a local web series is shooting high-res for this. This means they have potential to stream this through your PS3 to your HD-TV and it’ll look super sharp. The other cool thing is that its bi-lingual, so its both in English and Cantonese with Chinese and Western actors playing parts together.
New webisodes will air every Monday and the series is free to view on www.koldcast.tv and on www.luminaseries.com. We have the trailer for you below:
This Opera’s giving us a reason to go to the show.
Your Firefox getting too bloated? Not a Chrome or Safari person? Don’t get us started on Internet Explorer. Opera 10 is here. We’ve tried it but the bugs simply overwhelmed us. This all changes with Opera 10 Beta 3 – or so they say.
Beta 3 adds a slew of fixes to bugs and log crashes. The major points are:
Increasing tab customization
UI tweaks and stability
More languages
Increased Turbo mode.
The tab customization is what most people seemed to be waiting for. Now you’re able to resize the tabs and place them on top, bottom, left or right which is handy for minimizing clutter and increasing usability.
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