Camouflage Art by Liu Bolin!

For the ultimate camouflage art, you need to check out some of these works by Liu Bolin.
The pictures are real and not photoshopped.  Since it’s China, the designer decided to hire some people and paint them all over.  Probably not too bad considering the low wages in China.  (I heard it’s cheaper to hire 10,000 to dig holes with shovels than rent a John Deere.)
via neatorama,Designer Page

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Origins of Fortune Cookie was America?

Here’s a funny video proving that Fortune Cookies are in fact, from America itself.  It’s funny but maybe Fortune Cookies were invented by the Chinese Americans to lure more customers.  Go to China, they don’t even know what a Fortune Cookie is.

But I can understand that, they have Chinese food in Korea that they don’t have in America, it’s called Korean-Chinese food.  Fortune Cookies are definitely American-Chinese food, speaking of which, there’s all these non-authentic Chinese food chains popping up. (and yes, they taste horrible to an authentic Asian mouth.)

Clearly not. They are arguably more American (by way of Japan), judging by the way that people in China react to fortune cookies — with a mixture of confusion and amusement. As part of research for my book, The Fortune Cookie Chronicles, I went around China handing out fortune cookies to random people (my bellhop, people on the street, vendors) and recorded their reactions.

Often times, they would put the cookies in their mouth, and then be surprised when they found a piece of paper either in their mouth or in a cookie.

via bb, nytimes

Google is providing some live scores and schedules if you type, “xxx olympics”, where “xxx” is the name of your sport.

Try this for soccer

Search Engine Land noticed that Google now shows a onebox* for certain Olympics-related queries, like tennis olympics or taekwondo olympics. This seems to work in the US and China but not, for instance, using normal google.com results from Germany. In the onebox, you’ll see an icon alongside the upcoming events for the sports category, linked to Beijing2008.cn.

via lifehacker - gb

As bad as it sounds, the new Chinese Nintendo Wii dubbed, “Rumdes V-Sports Game Console“, may pick up in sales real soon as it’s 1/3 cost of a Wii unit.

My thoughts on the Chinese Wii?

Well, it looks pretty good enough.  My only concern is that everything is copies/copied for people in China.  I mean, will they ever get the real stuff???

Besides that, this game console looks pretty cheesy but fun.   I want to get this so I can play some Wii-like games without paying for one.

via technabob

Wow, check out this DIY helicopter, it looks all homemade and everything.  The cost of this helicopter?  Only $3000 USD but be careful, if you fall, you are surely to die a horrible death.

via 7cai

I’d have to say this vending machine rules! The next time you need to smash some stuff, do it without using your own china.

‘Passive Aggressive Anger Release Machine’ is an interactive sculpture by Yarisal and Kublitz. Experience the most satisfying feeling when a piece of China breaks into million pieces . All you have to do is insert a coin, and a piece of China will Slowly move forwards and fall into the bottom of the machine, breaking, and leaving you happy and relieved of anger.

[via gizmodo - todayandtomorrow]

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Cool, the World’s Tallest Outdoor Glass Elevator is in China!

this controversial 326 metre high elevator takes you up the side of one of the many enormous cliffs in zhangjiajie, china - the lower 1/3 running from a cavern through the rock, the top 2/3 rising outside to the summit - and is the highest and heaviest outdoor elevator in the world. the elevator has an uncertain future due to the potential harm caused to the surrounding landscape.

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Now there is not information around about this, but I am thinking that this is going to be Elton Johns place in Huainan, China. Perhaps he likes the Olympics!

But whoever and whatever this building has been designed and built for, it just shows how different the China of today is, especially when you compare to what we know of China in the past.

The buildings are made from what looks like glass, and these instruments are the favourites with almost every Chinese child, so perhaps that has something to do with it.

Source [New Gadgets]

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Here’s an inside look into how memory foam mattresses are made!

Take a look at the memory foam before they are cut into actual mattress sizes. They look like giant tofu! Without the subtitles, you’d think they are making some giant tofu or bread.

via mattresszine