netbooknews.com has a video tour of Kingston’s China factory where they make USB flash drives (embedded below from YouTube). They are very lucky to get this tour. Factories usually do not allow visitors let alone cameras. It features the phrases “ship shooter” and “icy mounter”. Marvellous stuff for your geek.

In a country in which every movie can be watched essentially for free it may seem making money from movies is impossible. It’s not. As this report about Transformers opening weekend from the LA Times proves.

Interesting piece on CNN about the army of volunteers in China translating content in near realtime:

China has published pictures from its first moon orbiter.

A researcher has embedded electrodes in a pigeons brain that can be used to remotely influence the bird’s flight. Pictures here.

Atkins has won an international competition to design a five-star resort hotel set within a beautiful water filled quarry in Songjiang. Wow!

A match between China’s under-23 squad and Queen’s Park Rangers was stopped early for a massive fight. More here and here.

According to this article, Sichuan Sinomanic Technology LLC in Chengdu have developed a MIPS based PC that will sell for RMB1000. This is admirable and I wish them lots of luck. The ComputerWorld article says the PC is based on a chip from Raza but another article from Pacific Epoch (translating from qq.com) says it is based on the Dragon (also MIPS). Time and a screwdriver will tell. I would guess it is based on the Raza Alchemy family. If so, it could also be a DVD player and IP STB - which would be pretty cool.