Tag Archives: expensive

If you've got an extra $57,000 hanging around, you might want to check out the OVO-4 at-home flight simulator.

Want to burn calories while working in your cubicle? You'll have to shell out nearly $5000.

In Japan, Sony has finally released the launch prices of many of their titles for the Playstation Vita -- many of which are around $77 USD.

Brits are very serious about their cheese sandwiches, and I guess us Americans can be too as long as they’re fried and surrounding a cheeseburger or include bacon in anyway. But one place you’d never expect to see a cheese sandwich, even in the U.K., is at a formal banquet table. Chef Martin Blunos’s $172 cheese sandwich, or a sandwich ...

Is there such thing as too much bling? Naaaaah. Featuring over 1200 baguette cut, brilliant cut and emerald cut stones, this $3.5 million monstrosity from luxury watch makers Piaget is pretty much the epitome of lavish living. This isn’t the sort of watch you wear. This is the sort of watch you use to feed a small country. Link [via]

Seriously though, other than the text book industry, I think the printer ink industry is the number one price gouging enterprise. There’s no reason I should be paying more for ink than for a damn printer. I’d rather go drain an octopus. Link

Anybody have around $3.8 million laying around? I’m a few bucks short. You know, tax and all. The iPhone 3GS Supreme is encased in 271 grams of 22ct solid gold. Featuring a front bezel brandishing 136 flawless diamonds, a total of 68 cts and the rear apple logo, set in solid gold, has 53 flawless diamonds totaling 1 carat total ...

…though a cheap circular lawnmower wannabe it is not. For $140,000 you can buy your own functioning hoverboard, otherwise known as the Air Board. It travels at speeds up to 15 mph over most surfaces other than water, which totally blows. A “real” hovercraft would so travel over water. They seem to be marketing the Air Board as a perfect ...

Featuring a ridiculous 9900 black and white diamonds, this Diamond Chess Set goes beyond opulence and skips right to “I’m so rich I use hundreds as toilet paper” and “I eat diamond encrusted cupcakes” money. The $224,000 price tag actually seems sort of low considering the crazy amount of craftmanship and the thousands of gems installed in the set. 4500 ...

In the spirit of really large and cool shit for the summer, check out this Gigantic Water Play Slide from “ridiculously expensive stuff” extraordinaire Hammacher Schlemmer. Part 16-foot water slide, part water fort, the Gigantic Water Play Slide includes a bouncy center play gym and a mountain climbing-like stair experience. All for the (super-cheap, OMG) price of (only?!) $9,000. Chump ...