niconico douga Q

New niconico douga pages and player. Now with English interface and 16:9 broadcast support. You can search for other video and put videos in queue while you are watching one video. The scrolling comment feature and twitter/facebook sharing feature remained.

The bottom of the page showed language support for Japanese, Traditional Chinese, and English. Support countries: Japan, United States, and Taiwan

New Google Chromebook Hands-on

11.5-inch, £229, 1,1kg, 6.5 hours battery. Chrome version 23. Samsung made. There is one more expensive one made by Acer too, but not recommended by the Google staff in the Google shop (which is within PC Word Tottenham Court Road London)

Windows 8 Hands-on

no surface tablet yet. Tried the desktop

kobo mini £59.99

5-inch, 2 week battery life. kobo glo £99.99. kobo arc coming November 15

itsu Promotion

Chocolate Edamame

New chromebook £229

2 page evening standard advert in London. google.co.uk/chromebook

Scrabble OSPD4

F-A-R-T is NOT a word

The Tablet Phone Arrived

Only 11 months wait...since launch

360 Chrome Browser vs Google Chrome Browser

The Chinese 360.cn Chrome Browser (version 5.5.0.646 non-beta version) has the higher HTML5 score of 469 (+13 bonus) against the score for the latest Google Chrome (version 22.0.1229.79m not-dev and not beta version) at 437  (+13 bonus).

The 360 chrome browser branched off from the Chromium version 20 branch, and uses the same code base as google chrome

Samsung Galaxy Note

Galaxy Note 2 is just out. Carphone warehouse is still doing Galaxy Note for £499.95 (down from £549.95), while Three.co.uk started selling SIM free Galaxy Note 2 for £499.99.
PS: John Lewis is still selling this for £499.95+VAT. This phone coloured black was first launched in London at Carphone Warehouse on Nov 17th 2011, together with Google Galaxy Nexus. Then the white version launched at John Lewis on Jan 23rd, 2012. 2 weeks after I lost my Galaxy S1. Initially with android 2.3 ginerbread, and Samsung later released android 4.0 ice cream sandwich update. Bought this phone today.

Ping service ends

R.I.P. Ping

Ping Pong Tournament Trophy

by being top of the ping pong ladder. This toy is on spring clockwork, and 'MADE IN CHINA' as written on front and back

Wii U Spec and Price

announced at nintendo direct today

Kobo Shop

with WH Smith London

First UK University to Purge Foreign Student

In attempt to purge bogus foreign students, London Metropolitan University is the first University to lose right to sponsor foreign students

Walking then Dead by Window

The place near Oxford st and Regent st, Hanover St, in London where a girl in 20s walking on the street was crushed to dead by a falling window frame at the dawn of Paralympics 2012

Taipei Olympics flag

Replaced the Taiwan flag, which caused huge controversies

Biking from Beijing to London

this elderly cycler seems to have biked to London Chinatown from Beijing China

Sony Ping Pong Tournament

Top of the Ladder... probably won't stay there for long

Meizu Music Lyric System

Simply putting a Japanese MP3 song on the Meizu, the Japanese lyric is downloaded and available offline. All supported by the system music player. And the lyrics are of high quality and in sync

London Olympics App

Very useful and let you follow favourite athletes and country. Comes with PUSH notifications

Oxford Dictionary App

Now has social feature, and was highly rated

How I Watch the Olympics

Watching 4 Olympics channels at the same time while recording 1 and playing the ps3 Olympics game. Excited! =D

McDonald's Olympics Glasses

from having a big size meal in London

Mirai Clock on iOS

Danny Choo's clock. The next version Mirai will talk according to the release note. 2D character with 3d perspective

Google Olympics Tally

Today is the time the London Olympics 2012 begins. Google has tally on their site on the right. Even come with a link to BBC to watch the event live.

3DS XL Hands-on

it's huge, but doesn't make the 3D better

China Adverts in London

lots of China related adverts popping up in London underground stations and on buses. This one was from 伊利, all versions of 伊利 bus advert say "We come from China". And this particular one in the pic has some Chinese written on the runner guy's chest

Google Plus Hangouts

Worked well with iPad 3, Google Nexus Tablet, and PC with PS3 Eye camera. Screen-share worked, google docs share worked, watch-and-pause-a-youtube worked. Awesome.

Google Nexus Tablet hands on

very nice, I am gonna buy one

China's Siri Xiaoi Bot

They are suing Apple for patent infringement

How I Watch TV

3 Channels at once while recording 1 channel

GoPano 360 Video App

It beats bubblescope to market, I like the software better than the bloggie. Comes with iOS app, priceless. UK people can see testing by the Gadget Show World Tour episode 2 on YouTube

UK IP Block

tested today

Chrome on iOS 5 HTML5 Score

Today

Google Chrome on iOS

Just released

Obama Follows me on Google +

today

4 Treasures of Chinese Calligraphy

What my wife got me from China. The 4 treasures of Chinese calligraphy 文房四寶: the Chinese brush, the ink stick, the ink slab, and the paper 紙筆墨硯

Aakash 2

26 quid. I am intrigued. On Metro newspaper today

t-mobile censorship

on my mobile 3G for opening a twitter link

eBay.co.uk ban because of Paris laws

I couldn't even see the item... then why there was a link for me to click to this page...?

Samsung Galaxy S3 Hands-on

The eye tracking of whether u closed your eyes don't really work. Face tracking only work for rear camera. No "unlock with face" feature in the demo unit. The Game Hub is "coming soon". Tested today at PC World

Samsung Smart TV Series 8

Active 3D TV with gesture recognition. brower, voice control, mic and touch pad in the remote. failed to load youtube video on browser. Made my shoulder hurt for the cursor gesture, I prefer the LG (wiimote-style) magic remote more

Samsung Navibot Vacuum Cleaner

with a camera on top to map out the layout of your home. sense obstacle in front to avoid hitting it. Better that my roomba, twice the price at around 400 pound

Sony Tablet P Hands-on

Today at PC World

LG Smart 3D TV

trying out the LG smart passive 3D tv again. brower is now there, still waiting for Skype, BBC iPlayer, and Netflix. No camera, 1800+ pound. YouTube 3D video worked great when we tested with the in-store Wifi, by search for yt3d on YouTube. Come with 7 polarised 3D glasses, wide viewing angles

New Foursquare UI Launched

today

Nintendo on Instagram

pretty new with only 2 pics

QQ's new Qzone Timeline

Facebook style timeline hits Tencent's Qzone

Meizu Forum under Censor Closure

the main meizu.com page is under one month shutdown due to illegal postings on the popular Meizu forum