Imagine a time in the future when science has developed a means of giving everyone the face and body he dreams of. It may not happen tomorrow–but it nearly happens now in your new HP Photosmart camera, and at the push of a button!In order to use this feature, all you have to do is have someone take your photo, press the camera’s OK button a few times, and then HP’s sophisticated software takes over. It analyzes the photo to determine your body mass index and map your fat distribution. The software then compares these measurements against the “Los Angeles” database of preferred body shapes and sizes, and notes any discrepancies.
- Take a self-portrait. Then…Highlight the Design Gallery menu tab…
- …highlight Apply Artistic Effects and press OK. Then highlight Slimming and press OK.
- Adjust the slimming level using the arrows. Then press OK, and you’re finished.
Next, the camera then calculates the degree of “slimming” that it can safely perform to your image –for most of us there’s no limit, heck even models and stars get heavily retouched and reshaped these days. Even Britney Spears.
But for some users too much virtual slimming and they might risk falling into depression the next time they look in the mirror and rediscover their non-virtual self. These particularly sensitive users will be encouraged to purchase HP’s “slimming mirror”, due out next year.
With ideas as valuable as these, is it any wonder that HP’s board of directors would do anything in their power to stop press leaks.
If this is The English menu, I think I’d like to see this Qianmen restaurant’s copy of The Chinese menu.
This isn’t a menu. But it is a photo of a cool looking restaurant in Qianmen, so it’s here for context. It also has a neat roof overgrown with tall grass.
Click any image if you’d like to see a larger version. They’re all low-quality because they’re crappy cell-phone-camera shots.
A few unofficial Apple products available only in China.I’m talking about mp3 players, headphones, USB drives, and other products featuring Apple logos on the packaging and sometimes on the devices themselves. One of my favorites in the photo at right is the headset in a package labelled ‘QiMei iPod mini’ that features two green apple logos, one rotated 90º from the other, and even sports an iTunes logo.
I’ll be posting more photos of such infringing items in the future, because I find them both amusing and instructive. The brazenness of the companies who manufacture these items is pretty funny and it also serves as a reminder that the strict “intellectual property” laws that the Western world takes for granted are new and not well respected in China.
America, F@#! Yeah!I’ve seen this video on the children’s shelf in two different video stores now, so it’s no anomaly. Either Chinese video store employees are making a point of not watching the film, or they have very different standards for what constitutes an acceptable level of beheadings and scatological references in films for children.
