According to Kirai—a Spanish dude who lives in Japan—this is a Japanese electronics store which has transformed its façade into an outdated cellphone. Each window is a key that shows what to find in each of the store's floors, as well as the opening times. [Kirainet via Dvice]

Don't get impatient. The mystery will be revealed soon.

I'm not going to say I don't love the look of these proposed buildings—they are a noble attempt to put environmental relevance and soulfulness in front of sheer density and speed of construction—but damn if they don't appear to be freakishly devoid of privacy.

The building that MAD itself designed barely has so few enclosures, they must be planning to install bathrooms in the elevators. You can see it in the foreground above, and in the gallery below, along with three equally transparent concepts from BIG (which looks like a Wii), Emergent (which looks like it was designed by the Master Control Program) and Rojkind Architects (which looks like it was drawn by a Parkinson's sufferer).

You only start seeing some semblance of privacy when you get to this would-be Podling village by Serie:

There are 11 buildings total, all with seductively nouveau designs, some even fit for people who are modest, mecha fat and/or coyote ugly. To get a better sense of how they harmoniously fit together, hit the links. [MAD via designboom and Dezeen]

Visitors will get a little taste of Danish culture with the BIG's Danish Pavilion at the Shanghai Expo 2010. In their proposed pavilion, BIG will include a city bike trail, a nature playground, a harbor bath and an ecological picnic. The pavilion's 1,500 city bikes will be offered for general use during the expo. Did I mention the bath will be filled with water from the Copenhagen Harbor in the heart of the pavilion? Amazing.

[Designboom]

Yep, still queasy, though I'd get over it pretty quick to live in one those apartments. [BIG via Dezeen]

As the always fascinating Brothers Brick point out, this fan set—built at the Brickish Association annual general meeting in Sheffield, UK—is in a 6:1 scale, which means that it is 216 times bigger than the original Legoland Yellow Castle, released in 1978.

If you zoom in the pics you will see the size of those bricks and studs, which in reality are made with other LEGO bricks, reproducing exactly every original piece from the original set.

[Flickr and Flickr via The Brothers Brick]

Yeah, we know—"video or it didn't happen," right? Well, we're working on it. Jeez, give us a break guys, Mr T smashed up our offices and the cleanup is immense. Nevertheless, the mammoth mobile totes a working internet connection of sorts and an onboard camera, but it completely lacks a battery, as Mr Tan couldn't build one large enough—what a slacker. The humango-handset relies on a mains outlet for power, and a local journalist verified its functional state by sending SMS messages and making a call.

The project took him 6-months to complete, and his wife was said to be livid with the racket he was making whilst putting it all together. Mind you, if our partners were busy constructing the BFG's cellphone, and they carelessly omitted the vibration function, we wouldn't be best pleased either. [Ananova via textually]

Go on, Addy, they exhorted, pretend you're a booth babe. It didn't work, though, because I still look like a tool. Next time, I suggest we take along a Real Doll for the size tests... See you next week, lots of love, Addy.

Despite the gigantic size, it's only 24,900 yen ($209). Which makes it, sizewise, actually quite reasonably priced. – Jason Chen

Product Page [storemix via Nexus404 via Nerd Approved]

Ah, yes, the Hummer lifestyle. So we can look forward to people carrying around a WWII-era radio that's brilliant-yellow and gets 30 minutes of battery life? Show me where I sign. – Jason Chen

Image by Ben Longo

Press Release [PR Newswire via Engadget Mobile via textually via uber phones via uber gizmo]

Dual LCD mobile phone [Via AVING]

Hawking to star in Big Bang, the movie [via Times Online]