A group blog about Chinese tech, media and design
As the deadliest fire in California’s history rages on, we trawled through over 500 items on China e-commerce behemoth Taobao to find you the most stylish pollution masks on earth today. What we found was better than anything created by this Dutch designer or this Swedish…
Continue readingCyberpunk Pollution Masks, Editor’s Picks from China
From a Quartz article by Gwynn Guilford:
IBM plans to improve the quality of data by installing its latest generation of optical sensors, incorporating meteorological satellite data and running that through its artificial-intelligence computing system (a.k.a. Watson, that computer that trounced humans on Jeopardy). The visual maps it generates will identify the source and dispersal pattern…
Continue readingIBM teams up with the Beijing government to tackle its pollution problem
Editor’s note: This article has been reposted with permission from The Civic Beat: World Report.
(via)
SHANGHAI– Thousands of pig carcasses, nearly 16,000 as of last count, have been found in Huangpu River, one of the many that supply Shanghai, the bustling, rising megacity and…
Continue readingThe (Un)Life of Pig: Shanghai River Filled with Pig Bodies
Any foreigner who’s visited a Chinese city notices it right away. It’s one of the most dominant memories of the main cityscapes I’ve witnessed across China, from Hong Kong to Chonqging to Shanghai to Beijing. Smog. And lots…
Continue readingHow Memes and Infographics Are Driving the Push for Clean Air