Three years ago when Baghdad was in turmoil and looting was commonplace, an Arabic cameraman named Mashnoon was entrusted with a small item by the curator of Samarra’s antiquities museum.

It was an innocuous looking shiny metallic cube which, according to legend, apparently was found amongst some wreckage that fell to earth back in the Babylon era. He duly kept it safe and decided a year ago to have it looked at by some colleagues at Amman’s University of Physics.

What they discovered astounded them. Besides being much heavier than it's size,this small piece of metal somehow emitted a power source, giving a continuous 12v supply, that has since proven to be unlimited.

Mashnoon takes up the story: “I decided to use it with my camera equipment as various items such as the camera and editing machines all run on 12 volts. At first it was as simple as connecting it via some clips to an inverter and plugging it into the camera. As I was doing live shots at the time, the camera never needed to be moved and could be left permanently plugged in. It worked fine to begin with, but I always had back up power ready to go as soon as the voltage ran low. It was a busy day with continual lives and I soon forgot about it. It was only when, 14 hours later it was time to hand over to the second shift cameraman that I realised the cube had been running the camera the whole time without a glitch. I kept this fact to myself until a week later that one of the generators failed during an edit and in a rush I hooked up the cube with the inverter to a pair of DNW225’s and was surprised to see that it worked , even though the power consumption of both machines combined is at least 4 times greater than the camera at 130W!”

There doesn’t seem to be any logical explanation as to how this can be and Mashnoon is so proud of this gift from the heavens that he has dubbed it Mubik’s cube in honour of the museum curator. At first he thought that it must recharge itself from the sun’s rays, but since it powered the edit machines and eventually the entire satellite uplink as well while sealed in a box for weeks, that theory has since been discounted.

“I’ve come under pressure to hand the object over for some serious research but have refused and continue to use it today” says Mashnoon. “It gives us the edge on competitors as we can transmit from anywhere with no electricity needed.”

There are various conspiracy theories doing the rounds that the Americans moved on Iraq as there was a story about alien visitations in the past, and that the Iraqis were concealing something that they had found. Could Mubik’s cube be this mysterious object? Mashnoon is interested in talking to anyone that might shed some light on this matter, as long as military applications are not sought for its' use.

“I believe that Mubik’s cube could become the clean energy source for our future and invite historians, chemists or scientists to contact me with their ideas for further tests and uses”

Sayed Mapriloday Bafool

Amman, 1/4/2006

Mashnoon and Sayed can be contacted by emailing tvcameraman.com.