Here’s a vintage cell phone ad, showing you what the future of gadgets looked like then. Wow brick phone priced at $1499. “Carry it along with you to make or take calls wherever you go! Keep in Touch when you’re out of your office, home or car”.

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The World’s most expensive CD goes on sale, it can be found at the Takashimaya department store at Nihonbashi. The CD cost a whopping 10,000,000 yen (that’s about US$100,836). It comes with a platinum case with 2 carats of embedded diamonds.

The CD can be found at amazon for just 1980 yen without the platinum case and diamond. According to Sankei reports, the publisher of the CD Universal Music is just trying to get the CD into the Guiness Book of Records. I guess they are happy now, a lot us are blogging about it

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You can find this in Kawasaki More’s department store in Japan. Known as the world’s shortest escalator in Guinness Book of Records, this escalator only got 5 steps.

” It has even been certified by the Guinness Book of Records in 1989 as having the shortest vertical height of 834mm. The best part is, there are normal stairs after you get off the escalator…”

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Today, we can do lots of things using the internet, pictures, music, video, shop, blogs, services like banking and billing. I think we all should know how this internet works out. Check out this video showing the history of the Internet from 1957 to 2009. An 8 minutes video, enjoy. Read more…

Let’s go back to the earlier 90s, take a look at this Nintendo training video from 1991 teaching retail workers how to handle customers with defective Nintendo products. Interesting, video after the break. Read more…

Huh?… should ask my grandfather whether he kept one in store or not, didn’t know it is valuable. The above is a very rare vintage steel ‘GF’ double pedestal desk with great distressed patina, oh it’s rare. Most likely originally used in military/army base. Will you spend off 3k for this? Not me but sure there’s somebody. Selling at Sonrisafurniture.com.

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Alright, the above you see is an antique, a 200-year-old vampire killing kit. It was recently sold at an auction in Natchez, Missisippi. The winning bid = $14,850. Are those garlic 200-year-old?

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Yeah I’m going backwards, hahaha… the Ericsson T28 is one of the famous phone ultra slim phone back in late 90s. Measuring at 97 x 50 x 15 mm and weighs 83 grams. No camera, no color, no mp3, but does have a monophonic ringtone composer…tee tee too too. Wish to get one? It is available now at $17, it is the Ericsson T28sc…refurbished.

Alright this is some old news to share with you guys. In 2001, Jodee Berry of Panama City, Fla., sits with her toy Yoda at her lawyer’s office. Story goes like this, Berry the former Hooters restaurant waitress, was promised a new Toyota for winning a beer sales contest. Berry was blindfolded led to the restaurant’s parking lot and received her award, instead of Toyota, she was awarded with Toy Yoda (the little green dude from Star Wars). Read more…

700 people were lined at the length of the Brooklyn Bridge before its 125th birthday. All of them bring along their cameras and created the wave of flashes with the cameras across the bridge from Brooklyn to Manhattan. Video after the break. Read more…