Friday, December 31, 2010

Chinese Apple Fans Line up for iPhone

Chinese Apple Fans Line up for iPhone 4 Launch............

Apple launched its iPhone 4 in China Saturday morning, attracting a massive crowd of people to one of the company's new stores in Beijing.



More than 1,000 people lined up outside Xidan Joy City shopping mall, where one of two new Apple stores opened in China Saturday. Some customers waited as long as two days to get their hands on one of the phones.

"Physically, it's been painful. But mentally, I'm very happy," said Yu Zhong Hui, 27, who was first in line. Yu began waiting outside the store two days ago at about 5 a.m. "When you want something, you have to pay a price. The price I paid is that everyone has had to see me wait out here."

Those who waited the longest were allowed to sleep overnight in the shopping mall's hallway. While they waited in line Saturday morning, a few draped blankets around their bodies as others played cards or took photos of the large crowd with their cell phones. But those in line said it was well worth it.

"It's like waiting in line to see a movie star," said 26-year-old Sun Jian Kuan, who is a systems engineer. "No phone can best the iPhone."

The launch of the iPhone 4 in China appears to have attracted more customers than Apple's release of its previous iPhone. Apple would offer no figures, but China Unicom, the mobile carrier for the device, has reported that 50,000 users signed up for an iPhone 4 on the first day of pre-orders. This beats the initial 5,000 devices that were sold through China Unicom in the first few days after the iPhone 3GS and 3G went on sale in China last year.

The iPhone 4 went on sale in China three months after it was launched in the U.S. Apple took more than two years to sell the iPhone 3G in China after its U.S. release.

Even as the iPhone 4 officially goes on sale in China, the device has already been available in the country's gray market, where products are bought from overseas markets and then resold by local vendors in China. But buying from such sellers is more of an inconvenience, since the phones must be unlocked and are not specifically designed for China, said some people in line for an official iPhone 4.

Apple has priced its iPhone 4 without a contract at 4,999 yuan ($US744) for the 16GB model and 5,999 yuan (US$893) for the 32GB model.

"I'm very happy, I've been waiting here for two nights," said Ma Ming, 23, who bought two iPhone 4s on Saturday morning. "All of these people are Apple fans," he said gesturing to the crowd of people outside the Apple Store. "It means that Apple has a lot of fans in China."
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Top 11 High-Tech and Creative Pens




Today, we will continue on this topic and present you with some really cool pen design. Some of them are impressively high-tech, besides essential writing function, they also can be used like USB Pen, MP3 Player, FM Radio, Voice Recorder, color picker; and some of them are kindly of funny, help you kill the boring time during lengthy meeting. Of course, we also have some futuristic-looking pen which is ergonomic and help to relieve pain and stress cause by the regular pen.



1. Pendragon: The most crazy pen

Pen dragon is the most crazy pen design I’ve ever seen. It should be still a concept and I really doubt how much effort to make it come true… and I am not sure do we really need that kind of multifunctional pen….
The pen has four parts. It’s got the Nib, the Central Unit, the End Part, and the Expandable Units.
The Nib is the writing part. it can be changed to a ballpoint, pen, fountian-pen, mechanical pencil, or digital pen. The Central Unit has, get this, the LED light – important!, a music player, charger input, memory card, and battery. The End Part has a bluetooth connection to whatever headphones you choose to use in collaboration with the mp3s youve put in the Central Unit. Expandable Units! Camera, microphone, laser pointer, chop, corrector, usb connetion, WLAN reciever to connect to computer, internet.


2. Ruler Pen
“Beg Borrow or Steal”, that’s what I used to get to hear from my class teacher when I used to forget to bring my pencil box to class. Like most diligent girls in school I used to carry a sharpner, eraser, pens, pencils, and ruler. God forbid if you forgot a ruler and had to draw some lines! Like we tend to carry extra pencils or pens, but never rulers! Well this Ruler Pen is a helpful answer. Too bad no one thought of this during my school days. Also there is no cure for being forgetful!

 3. Swiss Pens
It is cool and beatuiful. Pens with the Swiss Army knife. They comes in pink, green, yellow, violet, gray, orange, red, blue (shown), or black (not shown) colors. The Swiss Pen original Victorinox tools: knife, scissors, file, screwdriver, and power light. It also contains a Fisher-pressurized ink cartridge enabling ability to write upside-down. It made of surgical stainless steel with plastic.


4. Maze Pen
This Maze Pen for those boring office meeting. Bring the pen to your next meeting or conference call and pretend to be intently listening while playing the balls from the top of the pen through the maze to the bottom and back again. It will be just looks like you’re fidgeting with your pen.


5. Puzzle Pen
The Puzzle Pen is both a pen and a puzzle. This pen offers a fun challenge to solve and is a refreshing break for the mind. The sections rotate like a Rubik’s Cube and the tiles slide. Mix up the colors and then group them back together again. The Puzzle Pen will have you working for hours, but not on actual work.

6. The KZ Xtreme Defense Pen – Pen, Stylus and Killer
Some pen can wirte and use as a PDA stylus, but the KZ Xtreme Defense Pen can write, serve stylus duty, and kill a man. Kill a man? Yes! The KZ Xtreme Defense Pen is designed to serve as a defense tool in times of need, features with a CNC Machined, Type II Class 3 Hard Anodized, 6061 Aircraft Grade Aluminum body and a threaded cap and slip free, knurled center that gives the pen a very tough and reliable construction, ergonomic design provides superior grip and comfortable tincturing.

7.color picker pen by jinsu park
korean designer jinsu park designed a concept pen that adopts the eyedropper tool of photoshop
for real life. the color picker pen enables colors in the environment to be scanned and instantly used for drawing. the sensor detects the color and matches it to the color display. then the RGB cartridge located within the pen mixes the inks together to create the color that has been scanned.

8. PenAgain – Ergonomic Pen
Pen might have multipul functions, but the first important function is writing…The PenAgain’s primary focus is comfort. The human hand dictates the design. The natural weight of your hand provides sufficient pressure to apply ink to the paper. This eliminates the need to grip the pen allowing the thumb and forefinger to serve merely as guides. The Pen Again may help alleviate the symptoms of Writer’s cramp, Carpal Tunnel Syndrome, Calluses, RSI and Arthritis.



9. Yoropen
This futuristic looking pen called – Yoropen. It is designed with an offset tip that prevents fingers from slipping down when writing which improves posture and reduces strain to the fingers.






10. Free Ride Pen
Look simialr to Yoropen, but this one got more fancy looking.
The Free Ride is designed to be different, ergonomic, and fun. This push top ballpoint features a soft rubber like material in the vital sections where finger meets pen. The arched hull is held in place by hand drilled screws. As Lepine puts it, “I create tomorrow’s writing instruments for today’s men and women”.







11. USB Pen, MP3 Player, FM Radio, Voice Recorder
Doesn’t like the pendragon, you actually can buy this one.
USB MP3 Pen + FM Radio + Voice Recorder is a multi-functional gadget!! You can enjoy your music or FM radio during your day. It is also a convenient and stylish mass storage device which is shockproof and moisture proof that you can bring along wherever you go and your data and information will be there whenever you need. It comes along with voice recording function so that you can record the important voice data or information at once.
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Kinetic Cellphone Concept for Nokia

British designer Jeremy Hopkins took cellphones to a new level and created unique concept of the phone. His phone called Nokia Kinetic converts digital information into kinetic energy and make receiving a call, text message of email more visual. It has an electromagnet at the base which allow to shift the weight and keep it in an upright position. User checks the screen of the phone and if he wants to miss a call he should simply give a phone a tap, causing the phone to fall back down again and return back to standby mode. "Aimed at the business user, Nokia Kinetic is an unique phone that responds to notifications trough movement".



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