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more about #china BergenCountyJC can't beat MW2: Reminds me of Xanadu in East Rutherford, NJ more » Noobs-R-Us: What a bunch of idiots! All you need to do to "fix" this is to make it into a multi-use zone. Have apartments, offices, and retail spaces. Convert ... more » KTK1990: That would be awesome if they sectioned off a part, and used it as an amazing lazer tag area. more » Golf_Nut: They should sell it to a movie studio. The studio could make hundreds of movies in the place. more » IN THE FACE!: Did anyone else hear paint-ball guns in their heads while looking at those pictures? more » xenti: I've been developing malls for most of my professional career. I haven't got a clue what to do with this thing. more » Skunky: Silly communists, malls are for people with money! more » Segador: This spot looks perfect for Action Park 2. more » Navin R Johnson: Seems like they could convert it into some kind of living space. An apartment complex with indoor courtyard or something? more » comedian: Time to reboot The Blues Brothers. more » Killjoy: Malls are eerie and dead no matter how many people show up. more » NorCalAngler: I'll be honest, I'm fairly ignorant when it comes to what's really happening in China, but from what I've gathered over the years that country is out ... more » iElvis: "World's Largest, Deadest Shopping Mall" I initially read that as World's Largest, Deadliest Shopping Mall, which would have been more interesting. I... more » geekymitch: At least it opened at one point. In NJ we have Xanadu, this massive mall/entertainment complex near Giants stadium. The idea was to give people goin... more » icelight: And in classic Chinese tradition with the environment, it will later be revealed that the solar panels were non-functional, released toxic fumes, and ... more » Noobs-R-Us: Could they have made it any uglier? By ugly I mean that it's too utilitarian looking. more » Deckard: Interesting design. It looks like a flying saucer crash landed. I wonder how much power is supplied by solar (as a percentage of total). more » RoboBagins: Holy frakking Zeus! Somebody get to the Shirow Hotline, the Chinese are building Olympus! more » Nick: china's second most ambitious project is set to begin next month. they will construct the world's largest umbrella . . . right next door. more » nutbastard: it says something when all the funny comments i came up with dont seem funny in this context. you win, Rosa. I can't say a thing. more » -
#architecture
An Eerie Video Tour of the World's Largest, Deadest Shopping Mall
South China Mall, built in Dongguan and more than twice as large as Minnesota's Mall of America, was completed in 2005. Today, it sits almost completely empty. It is, by any account, the world's largest ghost mall. More » -
#buildings
World's Largest Solar Office Building Opens in China
This is the largest solar-powered office building in the world, recently built in China. Spanning a whopping 246,000 square feet, it features exhibition centers, research facilities, meeting and training facilities and a hotel, all juiced up by the sun. More » -
#wtf
Chinese Couple Sells Baby for Cellphone Money
Faced with the prospect of raising a child they couldn't support, a pair of young, unmarried lovers in China decided to sell their little baby boy for just enough money to buy a cellphone. More » -
#airplane
Video of Chinese Rocket Swooshing By Commercial Airplane
I wouldn't get nervous if I was flying through Chinese air space, and saw a rocket breaking its way through some clouds, just a couple of kilometers away. Nope. Nooooot nervous at all. More » -
#crime
Chinese Dude Gets Remote Crammed Up His Butt as a Drunken Prank
Nineteen year old Huang Chen stumbled drunk into a hospital in Changsha, China recently complaining of severe pain in his backside. Yeah, you know where this is going...but there is a twist. More » -
#crime
Chinese Woman Fools Scanners By Surgically Switching Her Fingerprints
Unfortunately for Lin Ring, her $14,600 surgical fingerprint switching procedure was able to fool the scanners, but could not prevent immigration officials from noticing the scars on her fingers. More » -
#architecture
The Shanghai World Expo 2010 Will be an Amazing Architectural Freak Show
How do you top Singapore's pixelated skyscraper, Macau's giant bunny, that twirly Danish Pavilion, and even a corporate building made from used CD cases? If you're Romania, you build a $3.5 million giant green apple designed to encourage healthy lifestyles... More » -
#china
Foxconn to Open 10,000 Retail Stores in China
Foxconn, the Taiwanese manufacturer who assembles a sizable percentage of our consumer electronics, is planning to open a boatload of retail stores in China, where they'll sell the smorgasbord of gear that they assemble. More » -
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#blockquote
White House Deputy Chief Technology Officer Compares Censorship In China To American ISPs
AT&T did not take kindly to remarks made by White House Deputy CTO Andrew McLaughlin comparing oppressive Chinese censorship to the practice of American ISPs. More » -
#infographics
The Grass Is Greener On the Other Side, China Edition
Newsweek has a series of eight polls exploring how China looks at the US, the US at China, and the two of us at the world. We have confidence...just not necessarily in ourselves. [Newsweek via Fast Company] -
#remainders
Remainders - Stuff We Didn't Post (and Why)
Apple Patent Describes iPod UI "Pushed" to Other Devices...Philips Announces Very Pretty Pro LCD Line...NYTimes Columnist Proposes Boycott of "Pro-Communist China" Bing...Ooma Adds New Handsets and International Plan... More » -
#surveillance
The Next Room Eavesdropping Device Is Way Better Than a Drinking Glass
Next Room is kind of like a mash up between a stethoscope, MP3 player and an old fashioned drinking glass. According to the product page, you can hear what is being said through wooden walls, doors, windows—even steel plates. More » -
#spycam
Coke Zero Has Zero Calories and Sugar, But Is High In Spy Cameras
This realistic-looking can of Coke Zero isn't filled with a refreshing, low calorie soda—it's actually a 4GB spy cam DVR that can capture footage in VGA (640×480) resolution. More » -
#china
China Accuses Google of Unfair Censorship
China's state-run newspaper, People's Daily, is accusing Google of unfairly censoring it's online book section from search results, calling it "revenge" because they publishing a story questioning Google's book scanning practices along with possible copyright issues. My friends, this is rich. More » -
#imagecache
Toilet Waterfail
Constructed during a ceramics festival in China, this toilet waterfall is...well...it's darn convenient is what it is. [Izismile via Fortean Times via boingboing] -
#uav
The Dark Sword UAV - Chinese Knockoffs Can Be Better Than the Real Thing
The Chinese military has apparently been copying American UAV designs for a while now. After they got bored simply rebuilding Uncle Sam's models, they decided to design a few of their own. And they blow ours out of the water. More » -
#china
Mini MP3 DV Cam Gives The iPod Shuffle Video Capability
While leaving video out of the iPod touch had everyone up in arms, nobody expected Apple to add a camcorder to the shuffle. Leave it to the Chinese to fill that enormous void with the Mini MP3 DV Cam. More » -
#clickfraud
$3 Million In Click Fraud Over Two Weeks? Just The Beginning
A recently disbanded click fraud ring in China racked up $3 million worth of clicks in two weeks. $3 million that we're aware of. Just how detectable is this whole business of racking up fraudulent ad revenue clicks? More » -
#imagecache
One China, Three Stories
China has celebrated its 60 years since its unification under the communist fist of the dictator Mao. The country has advanced dramatically and it's now becoming one of the biggest techonomical superpowers in the planet. Some things, however, never change. More »
