Do you often fantasize about outer space? Do you also fantasize about balloons? Well, that last one is a bit perverse for our purposes it’s fine and dandy. Introducing Bloon, the space-faring balloon. Wait, what?
It’s true. This space balloon seeks to beat Virgin Galactic to the punch by offering space travel to the masses. Only instead of a nice cushy, Bransony spaceship you’ll get a big ole balloon. You say tomato, I say tomahto. In any event, it does what it sets out to do, namely deliver your sorry butt to Spock territory.
The entire trip will last 2 hours at a paltry cost of $156,000. Which, I may note, is also less expensive than Virgin Galactic. No word on when these balloons will launch but we’ll let you know.
We all know Swarovsky is attempting to cover every inch of this planet we call Earth. The assimilation continues with this beautiful and useful sky trolley by Skypak. Just look at this thing. You know you want it.
The company has produced some fancy airplane trolleys in the past, with a gold-plated unit standing atop the pack. This new item, as stated, contains tons and tons of Swarovsky crystals. 82,000 of them to be exact. You heard that right. 82,000 Swarovsky crystals. The trolley is designed by Baz Pringle, a London based designer, who now works as a Senior Art Director in Orange County.
It’s not only a trolley that features several cabinets for whatever you want to place inside of them. Skypak’s new baby also includes a built-in mini-refrigerator. Keep the hot side hot and the cool side side. Just like a McDLT. How much will all of those crystals set you back? About $41,000. Not bad, right?
Just in time for the holidays comes the most expensive Advent calendar in the world. This amazing amalgam of diamonds, design and art
includes 24 precious diamonds, along with 100.25-carat diamonds, totaling to approximately 81 carats. All diamonds used in the making of this piece are verified by the Antwerp Institute of Gemmology (HRD) and the Gemological Institute of America (GIA).
The sparkling and amazing Advent calendar is priced at a wallet-straining €2.5 million (about US $3,254,600) and it includes an exclusive piece of jewelry designed by the Biegel Schmuckdesign from Frankfurt am Main.
Jack Armstrong’s million-dollar Cosmic Starship Harley Davidson was unveiled recently at Bartels Harley-Davidson in Marina Del Rey, California. The artist, known for his Cosmic Extensionalism paint-style, combines extreme colors and textures. This Harley has his signature marks all over it. The downside? It’ll cost you a cool million in order to sport this baby around town. But think of the upside. You’ll OWN the Sturgis festival.
Shinobu Konmoto (aka S-Kon) is a world-famous yo-yo modder. His newest project is the Nostalgia, a handmade yo-yo modeled after the 2007 world champion mode. Priced at ¥400,000 (about $5,000), the Nostalgia yo-yo is aimed at serious collectors only. Better get on to ordering now because they take six months to show up on your doorstep.
Stuart Hughes and his merry band of innovators have produced yet another goodie: A 24ct solid gold iPhone 4g. This is the perfect investment for an Apple fan, marrying the usefulness and fun of the iPhone with, um, a bunch of gold. The gold handset boasts 150 grams of 24ct gold for a price tag of $33,622. The company has given no word on whether or not the golden iPhone requires a free bumper to help with the phone’s known reception problems. More as it comes in.
Ah. The finer things in life. Do not be content taking a regular old bath when you could be bathing in a giant hunk of rare Amazonian rock crystal! You heard that right, folks. Baldi, the Italian manufacturer who fields these kinds of things for a living, have taken it upon themselves to their own ante with the appropriately named “Rock crystal bathtub.” The tub, shown above, is a three-person bath carved out of a single piece of rock crystal found in the Amazonian rainforest. The thing was also sculpted using diamonds. Not bad. It will set you back over $749k, but true luxury is worth it.
If you like gaming, and who doesn’t, this might be right up your alley. It’s an Xbox 360 covered in 24k gold! It’s brought to you by Computer-Choppers. You might remember them from their gold-covered PS3 or Macbook Pro. In short, these guys love covering tech-gadgets in gold. God bless em!
The golden Xbox 360 costs $4,999 and is available now.
Well, eco-freaks, prepare to get mad. There is now a Porsche covered in whale skin vinyl. The makers of the world’s most expensive SUV, Dartz, has unveiled a whole new way to wrap cars up. Whale skin vinyl! Don’t worry, though. It’s artificial. The covering apparently emulatesf whale penis skin surface. On the flipside Dartz will include a SAVE The WHALES logo on the flip side of the car, just so you can be sure to not piss anybody off. Good looking out Dartz!
This recession is digging it’s hells into even the most venerable of institutions! NASA, the space people, have begun selling off their unused space shuttles. Most of these spaceships were manufactured in the 1970s. They are going for about half of “retail” price. This puts a shuttle at anywhere fro m$28 million to $42 million. There’s a bonus, however. NASA will throw in the engine for free. These shuttle engines alone can cost a cool million so it’s not a bad deal. Now when you say “One of these days, BANG, to the moon!” you can actually mean it!
