Cameras triumph over gravity

Whether it is by exploring the South Pole, walking the ocean floor or traveling to the moon, people love to triumph over nature. But no one has triumphed over gravity.

Mooks thrive in a post-iPad world

Mooks, a long-popular magazine-book hybrid, are making a comeback. Their resurgence may give Apple fans a reason to put down their digital iPads and return to the world of dead trees and ink.

Become a mobile phone filmmaker

The video recording abilities of mobile phones are improving with each generation of technology, but the era when phones will be good enough to create a feature film has already arrived.

Online radio a stream of alternative voices

Twenty years ago, most Chinese women were able to moonlight as their family’s tailor. But with grandma’s sewing machine in the antique store and the family’s embroidery needles turned to rust, such teniques are fading from the young generation.

Grassroots sewing students design their dreams

Twenty years ago, most Chinese women were able to moonlight as their family’s tailor. But with grandma’s sewing machine in the antique store and the family’s embroidery needles turned to rust, such teniques are fading from the young generation.

Garbage bag gifts a design hit

Forrest Gump famously compared life to a box of chocolates in the 1994 movie, but if he was in China, he might have compared it to garbage bags.

Thrill-seekers burn rubber with go-karts

In the 1950s, a sailor in the US Navy got bored and decided to power a small kart with an old lawnmower engine. His invention gave birth to the sport of modern motor racing.

Speech group brings stodgy professors out of their shells

Apple fans are obsessed with the chic designs and cutting-edge technology featured in the company’s i-series. But the 20-minute pre-launch presentations by Steve Jobs probably do more to sell the products than any of the technology inside.

Specialty shop offers balloons as alternative to flowers

Most people like balloons as much for their colors as for their connection with joy and happiness. But attractive balloons have always been hard to come by in Beijing.

Ways for geeks to ‘get with it’

People like to pick on those who stay at home fiddling with the latest technologies, but tech love can be about more than circuits and chips or radio casings made out of wood.