Mystery

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Someone Ordered Tons Of Photos Of China’s Mysterious Structures

7:18AM November 16, 2011 | Jesus Diaz

There are lots of explanations for the gigantic structures built in China’s desert. But the most mysterious thing is invisible: according to a former CIA analyst, there’s someone who has ordered tons of satellite photos of this area since 2004. More »


Computing

Ultra-Rare MacBook Pro Prototype Sports Ugly 3G

4:30AM August 15, 2011 | Jack Loftus

Little is known about this 3G-enabled MacBook Pro prototype, but we imagine one of the many reasons it didn’t pass Apple’s notorious muster is Steve Jobs probably blew a gasket at the aesthetics alone. More »


Mobile

Mystery HTC Android Phone Appears, Discloses Nothing

7:20AM October 19, 2009 | Jack Loftus

An HTC Android phone popped up today, offering few clues—aside from a few hastily snapped pics—about what it’s called, what it does, or what it wants. More »


Mobile

LG Wants To Pay You $US10,000 For Your Chocolate Phone

10:50PM September 29, 2009 | Danny Allen

I don’t know if it’s a competition, or some crazy way to recover experimental chips — but LG is on a global hunt for five of its Chocolate phones. They’ve placed newspaper ads across 12 countries with specific serial numbers: More »


Geek Out

What Is This?

11:51AM September 11, 2009 | Brian Lam

Besides the sexiest display of LEDs I’ve ever seen. [Jalopnik]


What Is Inside This Huge Mystery Box?

9:00AM March 3, 2009 | Jesus Diaz

I just can’t say because it’s under ultra-heavy embargo. The kind of embargo that, if I talk, will make someone to send ninja cyborgs from California to get me killed, chopped, and made into dumplings.

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Sweater Dryer or 8-Pack Alien Colonic?

12:00AM November 5, 2008 | Mark Wilson

The clothing in the shot gives it away, but if we were to see the Sweater Dryer with Fan in another context, we might think it a…well we don’t really know what we’d think it was. Heck, even in this shot, we assume the device is blowing air at that sweater. For all we know, the Sweater Dryer with Fan (with an out of this world promise to dry clothing 75% faster than hanging) is really imbuing the garment with a latent forcefield, waiting for the day it’s activated by green invaders who will freeze us alive in our J Crew sale items. [Taylor Gifts via Random Good Stuff]

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