15. Victoria Collection Swiss Army Knives

Victorinox, a name known for making famous Swiss Army Knife, has this limited edition Victoria Collection Swiss Army Knives to celebrate the company’s 120th anniversary. In total, 120 pieces will be made worldwide with two designs, gold and platinum Editions. Both the models have been adorned with 430 diamonds. Based on three-inch Executive-Type knife, the new knives feature a nail file and nail cleaner, orange peeler with screwdriver, ring and tweezers next to a couple of blades. To be the one amongst 120 lucky chaps, you will have to shell out $50,000 for the yellow gold version while the platinum one will set you back $70,000. Who-a!

14. World’s most expensive teddy

The $86,797 bear has fur made of real gold, and eyes made with sapphires and diamonds. Steiff, which claims to have made the world’s first ever teddy bear, made the golden bear to celebrate its 125th anniversary. The new bear has a mouth made of solid gold, fur made from gold thread and eyes with pupils of sapphire and irises made from 20 tiny diamonds. Only 125 editions of the collectable Jubilee Bear have been produced.

13. Diamond-studded Lederhosen

Wohlmuther, who owns a clothing business that sells traditional Austrian attire based in Bad Mitterndorf, sold his first diamond-studded pair for $114,000. Formed from the leather of a wild red deer, and decked with 166 diamonds set in gold, the trousers were bought by a German, living in Dubai. He expects to lure more customers from that region as well as from Russia. Wohlmuther said that the cost of his creations depend on what they are made of. Working with a local jeweler in the styrian town of Liezen, he designs lederhosen with silver, gold or platinum buttons adorned with precious gems such as garnets, rubies, emeralds and diamonds. With the kind of dough you spend on the lederhosen, the item is sure to last for not only a lifetime but generations to come!

12. Tulip Otazu Ego NoteBook:

Diamonds are forever. Are you thinking about gifting a diamond-studded notebook to your sweetheart? Look not further than the Otazu Ego NoteBook from Tulip. This handbag-shaped notebook is studded with 470 flawless diamonds that adorn the Otazu Ego model in tulip, heart, and Otazu logos. It rocks a 12.1? WXGA widescreen display, a CD/DVD player and burner that can be used without booting up the notebook. You can even engrave a personalized phrase. The blinged thing comes for a hefty $350,000.

11. Diamond Chess set

Renowned French artist and jeweler, Bernard Maquin created the Royal Diamond Chess set in 2005. This is one of the most expensive chess sets in the world. Thirty craftsmen, under the direction of Maquin spent over 4500 hours creating the expensive chess set. The work was done from start to finish by hand. The artists and jewelers used 1168.75 grams of 14 carat white gold, and approximately 9900 black and white diamonds, bringing the total weight to 186.09 carats and the total cost to a whopping $500,000.

10. Mystery Masterpiece

A writing instrument that costs $730,000? Unbelievable! Well, the luxury houses of Van Cleef & Arpels and Montblanc have rolled out an eye-cathcing writing instrument christened Mystery Masterpiece. Made of white gold, the pen is adorned with rubies, sapphires, or emeralds and accented by diamonds. Nine pens will be sold worldwide, with each featuring 840 diamonds and more than 20 carats of gemstones set in a Van Cleef & Arpels patented ‘Mystery Setting’. If I could own one, I will never write with it. I can’t even dare to.

9. Corum Classical Billionaire Tourbillion

A luxury watch always says a lot about the monitory and social status of its owner. If you love to spend on luxury designer watches, then this sparkling Corum Classical Billionaire Tourbillion will tempt you to add this to your collection. The shimmering wristwatch is adorned with 850 diamonds and boasts a dazzling skeleton dial with Skeleton hour and minute hands. The watch has been manually wound with 90-hour power reserve and features Caliber CO-372 by Corum and La Joux-Perret. Rightly named so, the Billionaire Tourbillion comes in many versions with price ranging from $325,000 to $998,000. So, you have made up your mind to get one on your wrist but, hurry as there are only 10 pieces in production.

8. Million Dollar laptop

If the diamond-studded Ego notebooks didn’t impress you much or your girl, you better take a look at the gorgeous Million Dollar Laptop from the UK Luxury firm Luvaglio. The luxury notebook includes a 17-inch backlit screen with a special anti-reflective coating, a 128GB Solid State Disk Drive, and a Blu-ray drive, built-in USB memory stick and MP3 player. The power button is diamond encrusted and the buyers can get the finishing touches of precious metals, leathers and real woods to fully customize the pricey beauty. Priced at $1 million.

7. Goldvish ‘Le million’ phone:

Back in 2006, the Goldvish phone was reported to be brought by a Russian businessman for a sumptuous price tag of $1.2 million. This spectacular phone is decked with 120 carats of VVS-1 grade diamonds. The phone, also called Device Le Million De la Nuit, was designed by the Swiss watch designer Emmanuel Gueit and it reminds him of a boomerang. The dazzling phone comes equipped with 8x zoom, Bluetooth, USB, 2 GB memory card, ??3 player, and TFT- display which is protected by sapphire glass. Nearly 5 oz of pure gold has been used for the manufacturing of the case. The asking price for this cool thing is cool $1 million.

6. Diamond Crypto Smartphone:

Designed by an Austrian jeweler, Peter Aloisson, the Diamond Crypto Smartphone carries a whopping price tag of $1.3 million and is tagged as the ‘most expensive’ in the world. The phone is made of solid platinum while the cover is adorned with 50 diamonds, 10 of which are the rare blue ones. The difference between other costly phones and this one is the inclusion of very powerful encryption technology to provide special security. The phone runs on Windows CE operating system and features a high-resolution color TFT display. Meant for the wealthiest only.

5. $1.89 Million Gold Brassiere

The gold brassiere is decorated with diamonds and is made to hug the body just well. The $1.89 million gold bra was launched by Korea’s Golden Zone during a fashion show in Seoul.

4. Diamond studded wheels

You have already seen the $150,000 diamond-studded Bentley Knob and these $2 million luxurious wheels from Lexani Wheel Line come studded with diamonds and rubies. The Asanti ASF 130 Series feature a set of four 34 inches wheels with 26,000 diamonds and 1,200 rubies. And, a set of four costs more then most of the priciest roadsters in the world, for an exceptional $2 million. Strictly meant for the uber-rich who want their rides to be as fancy as they are.

3. Diamond-covered Mercedes SL-Class

The Mercedes SL legend began over 50 years ago and to celebrate 50 years the limited edition Mercedes-Benz SL550. This charming diamond covered Mercedes SL was on display at an auto show. It hasn’t been confirmed that the diamonds used are real or fake. However, this glittering diamond shine automobile would be costing millions even if fake diamonds were used. It would be damn cool to drive this glittering car around the town?

2. World’s most expensive bikini:

Would you like to spend U.S. $30 million for a piece of bikini? Sound crazy but that’s true. The glittering $30 million bikini has been created by Susan Rosen with Steinmetz Diamonds. This is the world’s most expensive bikini and uses all diamonds and no fabric. Model Molly Sims wore this diamond-studded bikini for the centerfold of the 2006 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit issue.

The bikini features over 150 carats of D Flawless diamonds, including a 51 carat D Flawless Pear Shape, a 30 carat D Flawless Emerald Cut, a pair of 15 carat D Flawless Rounds and a pair of 8 carat D Flawless Pear Shapes all set in platinum.

1. Damien Hirst’s diamond skull:

About three months back, Damien Hirst showcased his intrinsic beauty in the shape of a $98 million diamond skull named ‘For the Love of God’. Damien’s diamond encrusted platinum skull is decked with 8,601 sparkling diamonds (worth £12 million), eye and nose sockets filled with hundreds of jewels and a 52-carat pear-shaped stone fixed on the forehead, which is further bordered with 14 diamonds.

The skull is the most expensive piece to date by Hirst. Now, this magnificent piece has been sold to an investment group for the asking price of $100 million.

A lot of technology goes into making your cellphone work. So you would think that we would be more understanding of dropped calls and garbled conversations. Nope. Nothing gets geeks into a seething tech frenzy like poor cellphone reception... and it doesn’t help that we couldn’t resist the glossy black smoothness of the iPhone and AT&T sucks for cellphone service. Sad.

Well quit staring at your one-bar-worth of signal strength and pick up this handy Cellphone Signal Extender for your home or office. Simply mount the included antenna near a window and run the coax cable to the base booster unit. You get 2500 square feet of prime signal area (enough to cover 2-3 rooms on two different floors). You can go from 1 bar... to 5.

Via: Think Geek

Modern projection television, flat panel LCDs and plasma TVs have come a long way since the black and white tubes which were first introduced in the 20th century. The TV is the centerpiece and often the TV is the most expensive purchase for one’s home theater system. Someone who truly wants to impress others with their set might ask what is the most expensive television in the wordl?

From Italian company Keymat Industrie comes an expensive television studded with 160 real diamonds, 20 carats. Costing €100,000, the Yalos Diamond is the most expensive TV in the world. This expensive TV has no visible screws or welds, and the aesthetics are the work of Japanese designer Takahide Sano.

Via: Most Expensive

Sure, DVD recorders with built-in hard drives aren’t as captivating as they once were, but when you put Bang & Olufsen’s sexy spin on it, we can’t help but take notice. The DVD 2 not only plays back standard DVDs, but it also touts a built-in analog TV tuner to capture programming on either a writable DVD or on the 250GB HDD that’s built right in. Additionally, it supports the Guide Plus+ EPG, includes a timer for scheduling recordings, and outputs imagery via HDMI. No word on pricing or availability just yet, but do click on for more drool-worthy shots.

Via: Slashgear

Are you feeling constrained by your iPod, tired of plugging in unsightly and unnecessary cables, and just ready to break free of your earphones and start remotin’ the hell out of your music collection? Well if that’s the case, you might want to check into BEXY’s iMirror; a dock, remote control “mirror” (i.e., it displays what your iPod does), and video-out for your player (with video, obviously) that lets you snap your chains and get out of the box... literally. The iMirror can charge and sync your pod via USB, output audio from RCA or mini-phono jack connectors, control playback via the remote, and pipe archaic S-Video output to your TV for the viewing of fond memories — and it does it all for the low, low price of $149.99. Sure, we’ve seen products like this before, but this particular iteration is definitely better looking than most, and certainly a more practical solution than say... using your teeth.

Via: Engadget HD

Sharp, the world’s no three TV maker, after Samsung Electronics Co and Sony Corp, have come out with the world’s thinnest and lightest LCD, from their Kameyama factory in Japan. The prototype 52-inch liquid crystal display is 22mm thick and weighs 25kgs and as far as electricity consumption goes, it uses half as much as used for the existing models, about 140kWh (kilowatt hours) per year.

The new LCD TV has a contrast ratio of 100,000 to 1, which varies from the existing 2,000 to 1 for their other models. This guarantees, a clear and vivid image, even in bright rooms. With 50 percent greater color reproduction than what the NTSC signal provides, the colors are bound to look deeper and more life-like. You can view the fast moving images clearly, as it has a response time of 4 milliseconds.I think thats very cool!

The set was exclusively shown to the reporters in Tokyo. Sharp stated that they do not have a schedule for commercializing the display though the buyers could expect to see some of the technologies in the future sets.

Wall mounted TV’s could be an answer to the problem, of frequent earthquakes knocking down TV sets. You will have to wait until 2010 for this amazing piece, when Sharp’s LCD factory in Sakai, western Japan, comes online. For now, the price is for you to guess!

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Here’s what might be the ultimate gadget for your home bar. The My Fountain can store and dispense 16 chilled liquids. Put in your mixers, liquors and other beverages and the machine can dole out both single liquids or drinks based on recipes. The machine can also be password protected for different users. The machine sells for $2,500 and is available for pre-order now although it won’t be out until next year. Combine this with an Enomatic for your wine and you could open your own automated bar.
I WANT ONE!!!!!

Via: Luxist

Those black and white and fashionable all over Versace residences at the Plaza have joined the other residences that have snapped up in the revamped New York icon. New York magazine reports that the two apartments, a 1,212-square-foot one bedroom and a 2,656-square-foot two bedroom, have sold for $6.9 million and $12.5 million, For that price I want alot more then that. The purchasers didn’t opt for Versace furnishings. I wonder where they will go, perhaps on to other apartments.

Via: Luxist

It’s one of those magical kinda bulbs that rise up to mid air without the help of any wires. The levitating bulb is a powered light bulb that stays on like that in the same way without any physical contact, charging or batteries. The total power consumed by the bulb along with the levitation power is less than half the power consumed by the incandescent bulb. The bulb and the casing use electromagnetic technology to lift up the bulb to 2.5′ from the nearest object and to beam the power into the bulb the resonant wireless power system is used. cool right!

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you have just moored your yacht in the open ocean. You are relaxing on your deck chair, enjoying the sun. The breeze seems perfect but without warning, dark clouds appear on the horizon. What do you do? You wanted to savor the beauty around you. Why, you dive your vessel under the surface, and wait for the choppy weather to pass. Simple, if your yacht were also a submarine.

In today’s high tech world where people boast of owning luxury yachts, racy speedboats and private helicopters, submarines are the latest entry but with non-disclosure agreements. The age old question for the rich and the famous, ‘What do you give the one who has everything?’, a sub/yhat! or give yourself, probably has an answer. The ultra wealthy have found a way out to shake off the extra dollars and own submarines. These could range from two-seater submersibles to 5,000 square-foot luxury liners. The fact is that very few of them would openly admit to possessing these beauties. However, it has been reported that director James Cameron, co-founder Paul Allen, and Russian oil magnate Roman Abramovich all have subs of their own.

For the billionaire who has always wanted to play Captain Nemo, there is truly no better way to submerge in luxury. Some go for them to prove what all money can buy, but there are others who are genuine undersea enthusiasts. For who would not love to come nose-to-nose with a Black tip shark or lavish the beauty of coral reefs?

In a world of $100-million mega yachts, U.S. Submarines crowning glory is the Phoenix 1000, which has 5,000 square feet of interior space on four levels and can dive up to 1,000 feet. Customizable to the customer’s specific requirements, the only difference between this and a full-on megayacht would be the view for the truly intrepid undersea adventurer. The Phoenix is supplied with a docking mini-sub that can take passengers to an extreme 2000 feet below the surface. The clients can get their submarines done as they wish, with Jacuzzis, gyms, wine cellars and up to 10 bedrooms. They could even go for a basketball court, which would win the trophy of being the world’s most expensive basketball court!

At an estimated cost of US$80 million, the Phoenix 1000 costs as much as the largest mega yachts in the world, and would take about 3 years to build. Not something one picks up over the weekend. Therefore, if you have all that money, you can have the experience worth paying for. The owner can hire a crew from the sub manufacturer, or be on the helm himself. In any case, he is sure to have the time of his life, but with a price of course!

Check out another one - Hawkes Ocean Technology’s Deep Flight Falcon submersible - here!

Via: Born Rich