are you buying these in bulk or just as people order them? i dont remember seeing that in the previous reply's. im also curious to see better pics of these little guys.

FIFY

If these are real, then GPU miners will need a new algorithm to hash by the end of this year.

Supplier shipped yesterday from China, at the moment unknown.

Agreed!

I thought so too but then I found the site below (scroll far down to see photos).

http://mall.diginforce.com/goods.php?id=39

I still don't know what to make of it.  I have not seen any photos/videos showing that the thing actually mines.

I'm hoping that it is the real deal.  But why bury it inside of a heat sink?

hmm looks pretty legit, gonna wait this out and see i guess

I think I will be waiting for dense Gridseed based hardware, but nice to see them in the wild at least.

For those defending GPUs as more profitable:

GPU:

Energy hungry
Hot
Hard to scale at a point without industrial cooling and power
Less up-front cost, but long term pain due to the above

ASIC

Energy efficient
Much less heat
Easier to scale (Simple USB hosts compared to also needing an entire PC to run multiple GPUs)
More up front cost, but savings in the long term due to the vastly increased efficiency.

Pluses and minuses as with all things. Anyone spouting off about how GPUs are so much superior are not considering all points.

So...a fabled LTC/BTC mining device sent from China 'at the weekend'? 

- A device that no-one has heard of before, and is probably impossible because ASICs don't work that way. 
- A device that can't have any power circuitry in that tiny package, especially anything that uses 600W. 
- A device in a tiny package that needs to dissipate 600W of heat.  The heat sink of an Avalon Blade has to dissipate 600W and it's 6" high and 18" long at least. 
- China is basically closed down for holidays from today, so there'll be nothing shipping 'at the weekend'.  

Terrible scam, photoshop pics and didn't even do any research.

FAIL.

It has been written that one device dissipates 60 W, a set of 10 devices dissipates 600 W. Looking at pictures it seems to be possible.