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December, 2006
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Apple Imitations and Fakes: “Sing” branded fake “ipod” made by “mirage” (Brazil)
The amount of effort they go into to make it look like an iPod, then they slap their “sing” brand on it. These things are allover the store, right NEXT to the original Apple iPods in the display.
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The Egyptian Pyramids: Poured with liquid “concrete” and not hauled as solid stones?
The research, by materials scientists from national institutions, adds fuel to a theory that the pharaohs’ craftsmen had enough skill and materials at hand to cast the two-tonne limestone blocks that dress the Cheops and other Pyramids.Despite mounting support from scientists, Egyptologists have rejected the concrete claim, first made in the late 1970s by Joseph Davidovits, a French chemist…. Until recently it was hard for geologists to distinguish between natural limestone and the kind that would have been made by reconstituting liquefied lime.But according to Professor Gilles Hug, of the French National Aerospace Research Agency (Onera), and Professor Michel Barsoum, of Drexel University in Philadelphia, the covering of the great Pyramids at Giza consists of two types of stone: one from the quarries and one man-made.
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Apple Imitations and Fakes: “Hypson”, “Excess” and “Dynacom” mp3 player “iPods” for sale at Extra (Brazil)
Today I am going through the in-store pickup catalog from “Extra”, one of brazil’s major retailers, and I see these 2 familiar looking mp3 players. One made by “Hypson” and goes for $152 offering 512mb and FM Radio, the other one quite obvious a total imitation of the iPod nano/mini, made by “Dynacom” and selling for $175/$221 for the 512/1GB models.