The Mystery Tech Show: Unpacking the World's Most Expensive and Bizarre Items

Today on Mystery Tech, we're taking a look at some of the most expensive and bizarre items that have ever been featured on our show. From a 15-year-old laptop to a hyper-cube lighting accessory, we'll explore what makes these items so unique and why they cost so much.

First up, we have a massively expensive and heavy solid cube of tungsten, which weighs many kilograms or pounds. This is the Tungsten Cube, a solid piece of metal that's been valued at thousands of dollars. But what's its purpose?

The answer lies in its unusual shape and weight. The Tungsten Cube is not just a pretty face; it's also incredibly dense, making it heavy for its size. And yet, despite its bulkiness, it's surprisingly lightweight.

Next up, we have the HyperSpace Lighting Company's HyperCube Nano, a nanohypercube lighting accessory that's designed to look like an Infinity Cube. This tiny cube is equipped with LED lights and mirrors, creating a dizzying effect as you rotate it around.

But what really sets this cube apart is its incredible brightness. When turned on, the HyperCube Nano emits a dazzling display of colors that seem to go on forever. It's like looking into the very fabric of reality itself.

And speaking of reality-bending, we have another item that's sure to blow your mind: the AllSpark robots in disguise. That's right; this cube is actually a cleverly disguised robot, designed to look like a regular old cube.

But don't let its innocent appearance fool you. This cube has been programmed with advanced AI and can perform all sorts of tasks, from simple calculations to complex problem-solving. It's like having a tiny robot in your pocket!

Now, we know what you're thinking: "Is this really worth the $170 price tag?" And our answer is... maybe. While it may seem steep for an LED strip and some mirrored compartments, there's something undeniably cool about this cube.

And then there's the LED Mood Lamp Controller, a device that uses the HyperCube Nano as a base to create a truly immersive experience. This controller allows you to control the brightness, color, and even the rotation of the cube, creating an otherworldly ambiance that's perfect for relaxing or entertaining.

But wait, there's more! We also have the HyperCube Butt Pillow, a device that uses the same LED technology as the HyperCube Nano but with a more...ahem...intimate purpose. It's like having your very own personal disco ball in bed!

And finally, we have the Tungsten Cube seat, which seems like something Apple would feature in one of their press releases. But this isn't just any ordinary seat; it's actually made from the same material as the original cube and has been designed to look like a miniature version.

So there you have it: the world's most expensive and bizarre items, all showcased on Mystery Tech. Whether you're into technology, gadgets, or simply weird and wonderful things, we've got something for everyone. Thanks for tuning in, and don't forget to subscribe to our channel for more adventures in the world of Mystery Tech!

WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: en- Hello and welcome toMystery Tech, my friends.It can get real wacky, real quick.Jesus.- Oh, that might've broke.- (laughs)- Moss.- Moss Lab. Is this for growing (slap)?- No. No.- Yo. Hey, oh.- No, it's not.- Let's go.- What's it for then?- We're a wholesome family show.- It looks likea whole forest inside of awater bottle?- Look on the side.- Moss humidifierand air purifier.Am I just not familiar withthe magical properties of moss?It has moss air, mossfilter, cotton filter,water spray, control ball.Do I have to like grow stuff?- That's what I'm not sure.So this was in like an Indiegogo thing.- Oh, of course it was.- And it took,months.- So basically someonetook an air purifier.- Okay.- And the idea of a chia pet.- Okay.- And combine them together.- Okay. Does anyone knowthe safety precautions?Number one, do not ingest the moss.- Dammit.- So let's see what we've got here.So we have our moss filter.This is the moss air.They also have some balls.And I don't know why I haveballs in my hand right now.- That's how you control it.Like I'm not even joking.- You control what?- You controlthe machine by likemoving the magnetic balls.- You play with the balls?- Yes.So this is perfect for gamers.You get to play with balls,and you get to touch grassall at the same time.- Oh god. Ah. No. Not grass.No, it's moss. It's fine. Okay.You know I've read these,these instructions.- Oh sure. Touch balls it's fine.Touch grass, oh god!- (laughs) Well yeah.I only wanna do one of these things.Okay.This is my moss.Oh, well you know what?- Oh, it sounds like real moss.- Oh!- It smells actually very delightful.Would anyone like to smell the moss?- Yeah, yeah, sure.Gimme a whiff. Oh my God. That is nice.- It is lovely.- It's incredibly delightful.So I'm going to attach thisuntil I get a nice solid click.(click)Ah, I got it. Okay, cool.Alright, activate.Well, I see why they say max level,'cause it just spilled everywhere.- Oh my god.- It's fine.- Now we're gonna have mossgrowing on the table. Oh my God.- Why would you do that?- Use a paper towel.- Look. You know what happens,is if you spread the water out,it evaporates faster so you don'thave to clean up yourmess. I've done this.- I swear to Godif we come back in hereand there's moss growing on my table.- So hold it for three seconds. Ah!- Oh, how lovely. Oh, oh!- There we go.It's doing the thing!- We got a (slap)in here now. (laughs)- So wait, what do I dowith the balls though?Can I play with the balls yet?I shut it off. Oh. Oh, it blocks it.Now look all the, the steamis going into the moss.Oh, I don't know if this isthe way this is supposed to work.- Taste of your own medicine.- Is this terrarium mode.- Now it's coming out the bottom.Oh. So we're watering the moss by,oh, that's kind of clever.How much wasour moss air humidifier, air purifierand thing that's gonna get me demonetized?- ] It is $110.- Considering how over thetop this entire thing is,that's actually not crazy.Not sure how to review thisin any other way besides,I think it's cool?This episode of Mystery Techis sponsored by Whatnot.Whatnot is the most fun placeto find tech deals on the internet.I've done a few Whatnot streams already,including doing a bunch of giveaways,selling a bunch of mystery boxes.And all my items have started at $1.But this time around I'm going to beteaming up with Keevado.Not only do we have giveaways this time,including a Meta Quest 3,Apple Watch, and AirPods.But every single item of techthat we sell will all be starting at $1.So definitely be sure to dropby the stream this Wednesday,March 20th at two o'clock Pacific time.We'll have some of thetime zone conversions here.And if you use my link in the description,you will get yourself $10 offif you are a brand new Whatnot customer.I will see you on whatnot, my friends!Where we'll have fun and whatnot.Alrighty.- Brrr.Did you just say brrr?- Brrr.It's so cold in here.- Is it though? I thinkit's perfectly reasonable.- Brrr.- Okay.The fact that this bounced,and it has no give.It's via Dubai.Hmm.- This is somethingthat seemed like your type.- My type?- (laughs) My type,I see what you did there.- Are you making a jokeabout my preferences in life?- Yeah.- All right. Whatare we looking at here?A jacket?Oh my god, it's really heavy.What the?Oh my, oh good Lord.- (laughs)- All caps when you spell the man's name.- (laughs)So this is theNY Jackets.It's just a bunch oflike pillows basically,but it has a bunch of keys on it.Well, you better believe,I'll put this on.- It's cherry,cherry pillow switches.- It's, well, so it's likea, I think, is it leather?No, vinyl. Very vinyly.Okay. How much was the all caps jacket?- For the record,it's supposed to be white.- Okay.- So it's alittle, little yellowing.- $220.But keep in mind the original, you know,technically if it everexisted that you could buy it,it would've been like over $1,000.- So, okay, some thoughts.Because it's like a regular jacket,it has like these like,sort of like pillows on it.It is not only heavy but incredibly bulky.So like I, this, thisis how high my arms go.- I'm not gonna lie.It doesn't look horrible on you.- Yeah, it's actually kind of fine.It says FU on the back, but otherwise.- Does it? Can youtake a closer look at that?- F. U.- So, let me just try this for a second.- Wait the zippers a hashtag?- Yeah.- Wait, wait. Did you hear it?- Yeah, it's like the airis rushing out of it, basically.- The problem is I see it.- If you two would liketo be stylish like me,you can visit austinevans.comwhere I will be the exclusive purveyor.I'm not sure why I'mdoing that with my knees.Going to put those knees down.I'll be the exclusivepurveyor of the cap jacket.Okay, so that's a bunch of little boxes.Ah, Marques key cap?Marques makes key caps?Is this a, this a real just?No.No Marques doesn't make keycaps, Andy made key caps.- Andy makes key caps.- Yep, I knew it. I knew it. I knew it.- With Marques' logo on it.- (laughs)Alright.So we've got a number of key caps here.So these are dbrand, MKBHD key caps.Alright, I'm down. Let's take a look.All right, I'm gonnado the black one first.Let's see what we got.Watch this just gonna be apure matte black keycap with nothing on it.- Gee, I wonderwhat makes you think that?- That's a matte black key cap alright.It's so small. It's kind of hard.Like, you know, like most of the timewhen you like pick up amaterial, you can kind of tell.Oh, this thing's like plastic or metal.It's so small, it's actuallykind of hard to tell.It feels quite nicethough. Can you hear that?- If you want a reference point.- Oh God. This stupid thing.All right, so this isthe Cybertruck keyboard.Wait, you already got one on here?- Yeah, Andy,Andy sent me all of theseand he was like, you can have one.- We also have a, I assume red one,which is probably the oneI would actually wanna use.Ooh!That red looks so much better.So it's got like a littlebit of like shininess.It's actually sort of like embossed in.That looks so sick.Ooh. And the silver. Sothere's black, red, and silver.I actually might like the silver the most.Obviously that's not like anormal like Marques color,but the silver looks goodand it really shows offjust how metallic this key cap is.Alright, I'm gonna try the red one.The red one feels like that's the move.Yeah, it feels reallynice. How much are these?Because I'll tell you, I'mgetting a sense of some realheft and quality with thesevery tiny little key caps.- So each one is $30.- Yep.- I was actually,I was gonna think 40.- Yeah. Thought I thought.I thought I thought so too.It's actually not as much as I thought.I mean it's a lot for singular key cap.- Of course.But, um. There's alsoan Austin key cap too.- Wait, really? There is?- You know about this!- Wait, what?- Tiny.- No, no.We did a thing withDrop. You can go on Drop.Go on drop.com and look Austin Evans.- You mean corsair.com?- You've seenthis key cap before.Look at the, you've, the key cap.- Oh, yeah.- What? I have my own key cap!You can get on Drop.- Well no one requested it so.- We did it as a, as a charity thing.It's only five bucks.- Well, look youwere the charity caseon that one, my dude.- Okay. Yes.The Marques key cap is far superiorto the Austin key capand it's real nice.But there's also,- I'm famous too!- Look, my key cap mightbe on sale right nowbecause Drop's trying to clear 'em out.We support St. Jude.It's for a good cause.So, uh, MKBHD key caps, betterthan the Austin key caps.Um, these are real nice. Thanks Andy.And Marques andand Adam and dbrand andeveryone else, but thanks Andy.- (grunts)- That is fragile. Do not throw. (laughs)Okay, cool.So something fragile thatyou're not supposed to throw from eBay.Love it, love it, love it.- Tell us!- Wait, I know what this one is.So not too long ago we did avery cool item on Mystery Tech,which was a PowerBook Titanium.So after everyone thought thatthat was a hilarious, wonderful segment.I went on eBay, slightlyinebriated as usual.And I looked for one of the most iconicitems that has ever beenpresented on a keynote.- The iPod?- No, no, not that one.No, no, no. Not that one either.Look how small this device is.It keeps seeing smaller and smaller.- Gee, I couldn't tellthrough all this packing.- Behold, my friends one of themost influential computersof the 21st century.- The 12 inch MacBook?- No, the original MacBook Air.Wow. This one's (slap) up. Wow. Wow.It's just gross, feel,feel the texture of that.It feels like someone like freakingdragged it through the dirt.So if you're not familiar,the original MacBook Air was broughtout on stage by Steve Jobs.He pulled it out of a manila envelope.It was a very famous momentbecause this was back in the dayswhere computers were still pretty thick.Even MacBooks at the timewere still like yay thick.And the idea that you couldhave a ultra portable laptopthat was this thinwas very, very cool.- I need a showerafter touching that.- Well.Was this a problematicmachine in some ways?Yes, it was. But we'll talkabout that in a minute.Let's admire justthe sheer engineeringthat went into makingthis a system in like 2008,I think?You get your little pop down ports,got Mini DisplayPort, USBand AUX hiding together.You've got your weird little MagSafethat goes down for reasons.There was a lot of very customengineering that went into this.Password is 1-1-1-1. Sick.- Great, now everyone's gonna know.- (laughs)I'm not sure how we can tell on camera,but we're gonna just take a minuteand give this a little wipe down,disinfecting wipe and, hm,hand sanitizer and maybea little bit of fire.And then we'll, we'll show thisMacBook hopefully in action,'cause it is legitimately avery, very cool piece of tech.So with some disinfectingaction happening,one immediate issue I'mseeing here is the charger.So this, this does use MagSafe,which as you can see is veryeasily magnetically removed.But because this is so thin,it goes in basically facing down.So if I'm just gonnause this on the table,watch, I'll plug it in.Okay.And then.It needs to basically bepropped up on like a boxor something to actually even charge.Now I had a second genMacBook and it was lovely.The second gen MacBook Air Ithink was a terrific device.But the first gen had a lot,and I mean a lot of compromises.That being said, we've got ourbox, we've got our charger,which looks like it's taking a charge.Let's see if it actually works, shall we?Hey, and the screen works.Now gimme some MacOS action.- Look at that flicker on camera.- I'll tell you the flicker you'reseeing is not what I'm seeing in life.Yeah, there we go. Apple logo.When this MacBook was sold,one of the biggest downsidesto it was performance.Now they worked with Intelto develop a custom versionof the Core 2 Duo specificallyto fit in a tiny littlemotherboard, right?Again, this is years and yearsbefore tiny Ultrabook stylecomputers were common.This is also before SSDs were prevalent.So this uses a 1.8 inch hard drive.You know the hard drive thatwas in your iPod Classic.Yeah.So, the biggest problemwith this is not only thefact they didn't have a lotof performance, but the harddrive speed was atrocious.That being said, this was a 2009 model.Oh, look at the clickon that track pad. Wow.And there's no right click either on it.So we got ourselves a twogigahertz Intel Core 2 Duo,two gigabytes of RAM,which if I remember right,was the only amount of RAMyou could get with this.I don't actually knowif that was an upgrade.Nvidia GeForce 9400M Graphics.This has a 1280 by 800 display,which looks kind of bad.And it has a SSD?- Yeah.- Huh?Could you get this withan optional SSD? 128 gigs.Like it must have beenif you bought an SSDwith your computer in 2009,that must have been anabsurdly expensive thing.For context, this systemwhen it came out was $1,70015 years ago.Considering that this has an SSD,I'm actually gonna open it up and see.It's actually really snappy,and it's also updated allthe way to Mac OS El Capitan.Which is, I mean, severalyears out of date.But I mean this, this isactually kind of impressive.I mean, I spent like 150bucks on this thing, right?So I don't think anyone should go outand buy one of these to actually use.But as a history piece, assomething that was like amassively, massivelyinfluential piece of technology.This is really cool.I'm using the magic of a phillipsscrewdriver and that's it.We are inside of our MacBook Air.All right, let's see whatwe're working with here.Wow, that looks modern.Alright, there is a lot going on here.So not only do we have our Airportor our Wifi card here,a quite large battery,which is 40 watt hours.Actually it's not that big,but it's very physically widebecause this is such a thin device.You've got your ports, which are kindof sticking out the side here.But here's where it gets wacky.So this is our SSD and our motherboard,which is fairly small.Especially for the back in the day.But it actually looks likeit's got soldered on RAM,which again, must havebeen the first time.I can't imagine any other system havingsoldered on RAM back in the day.Maybe something really weird and custom.And then look at this. This is the SSD.So this is a 1.8 inch drive.Now again, this was originallythe same sort of form factorthat we have inside like an iPod.So even like a regular2.5 inch laptop drive wasway too big for this.This is a first gen product.But you look at this,you look at the design,you look at the thinness,you look at a lot ofthe, the decisions they made here.And you tell me that thisis a 15-year-old laptop.That is crazy to me.Can I get a, oh yeah.- Oh yeah.- I didn't finish that. I was going to.Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey,hey, hey, hey, hey, hey.Don't. Put the tungstencube down gently. Gently.Thank you very much.This my friends, is one ofthe most expensive items we'veever put on Mystery Tech.A massively expensive and massively heavysolid cube of tungsten.Which weighs many, many, many kilogramsor pounds in freedom units.This thing is heavy. What is that?Are you sure you wanna throw that?Oh, it's really lightweight.- The fake.- Okay.This is the HyperSpace LightingCompany's HyperCube Nano.So it's a nanohypercube lightingaccoutrement to our tungsten?This is quite the item.What am I doing here?Okay, so it's a cube.Thankfully much less heavy.- Wow.- All right. So we got ourselvesa big old cube that I assume.- It's the AllSparkrobots in disguise.Wub wub wub.- Wub wub wub.- Megan Fox.- (laughs)- So what I see here is a cube,which looks like it hasa large number of LEDsto go all the way around it.- Oh, I think Ialready know what this is.- I, is it gonna be one ofthose like infinity cubes?So I'm gonna plug this in.So the way it seems to work is,uh, we plug it in here.It comes with an ethernet cable,which I will run through the stand,and then I plug my ethernetcable into this little dongle.- Dongle? Wait, ethernet?- It's gotethernet, which goes to this,- It's power hoarding. (laughs)- I think it is for some bizarre reason.And then I plug this into USB-C power.Okay, so we're, we'regonna plug it in and?- Wow.- Oh, oh- My God.So you can see that as Isort of rotate it around,it's got a series of LEDs and mirrors.So like you can just go and go and go.- That's kind of incredible.- So, because you've got allthese mirrors, look at it.When you line it up,it looks like it goes on forever, dude.That is so cool.How much was the HyperCube Nano?- It's $170.I mean, that's kind of a lotof money for some LED stripsand a bunch of littlemirrored compartments.But this is pretty cool.- What's better than two cubes?- Three cubes. Am I right?Now that's a cube right there.We got ourselves the LEDmood lamp controller.Is this just a big ass cube?- All right.- No.- Can someone help me pull the box?- Oh my.- Just pull.Behold my friends.The big, ass cube.What am I looking at rightnow? It's just a big cube.Oh wait,(thumping)Oh, woo.- We got ourselves a coupleof buttons down here.So we have a DC in.It looks weirdlywaterproof for some reason.And then we have a little hole for things.We're gonna plug it in.Let's see what happens.Okay, so off,on,RGB!- Now imagine this outside.- Oh, okay.- And it'swaterproof for some reasonbecause this is an outdoor seat.- (bruh)- This absolutelylooks like something thatApple would just have in likeone of their press thingies.- Yeah. Putthe seat on the table.- Why do you, why, why did thatpop into your mind first?- I gotta say,it's really bright up here.I feel like I'm ascending to a,a higher realm of spirituality.- We all wish, but.Yeah, don't get our hopes up.- So how much ismy hyper cube butt pillow?- A steal.- Have I got the items for you?Whether it's the trippy cubewhere you can see directlyinto your own soul.A nice bouncyRGB butt illumination device.Or a tungsten cube.The Austin Evans channel is here for allof your cube related needs.And all you need to do issubscribe to the channeland ring-a-ling the ding-a-ling button,which sadly is not in a cube shape,but I'm working on it.- Oh my God, nope, okay.- We are going.Well, can't wait to get that insurance.Okay. Okay, okay. Okay.- I'm okay.