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sKershaw, South Carolina, got a special delivery on Feb. 13, but it wasn’t from Amazon.
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On Feb. 19, Green’s still- shrink-wrapped first-edition iPhone sold for more than $63,000 through an online auction with Louisiana-based LCG Auctions. Featuring
a 2-megapixel camera and “sharp corners front and back,” the phone sold orig- inally for $599.
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Just looking for a few minutes of peace and quiet? You might be tempted to step inside the anechoic chamber at Microsoft headquarters in Redmond, Washington, Oddity Central reported. However, even if you were allowed to try it, you might find it unbearable — it is the world’s quietest place, at -20.3 decibels. (Calm breathing clocks in at 10 decibels.)
“As soon as one enters the room, one immediately feels a strange and unique sensation which is hard to describe,” said Hundraj Go- pal, a speech and hearing scientist who helped design the chamber. “When you turn your head, you can hear that motion. The longest continuous time anyone has spent inside the chamber is 55 minutes”
Microsoft uses the room to test microphones, receivers, headphones and speakers.
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