Artwork selling itself on eBay
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"How do you know there is a laptop inside?"
What is a laptop? An arrangement of compact electrical utilities that provide various services to the user either through manual use or as automatic actions.
Nothing this box does falls outside the remit of today's domestic hardware. I would frankly be amazed if anybody had spent years devising an entirely new system of electronic/magic components that can talk to the internet, negotiate with online buyers, sell itself.
If this box contains PC components purchased (and widely available) online I would still classify it as a laptop. Its artistic value would not be increased in this case, though I would admire the maker for his electrical engineering skills.
If this mysterious black box contains some mysterious black-ops alchemy that was like nothing available in Comet or Dixons, I would be suitably amazed.
But you know, and I know, that that's not the case. You want it to be true though, and that's because you want to believe in the mysterious black box.
The mysterious black box has been made by gluing squares of Black perspex together, and it is a necessary component, because without it you would know with all of your mind that you were bidding to take ownership of a Dell computer.
Its the magician's black hat, and it needs you to believe.