iPad 2 Gold History Edition ($7,747,500)
We already pitched the iPad 2 on Tuesday, but how about one encrusted with 12.5 carats of “flawless” diamonds, a dazzling if utterly ridiculous 53 in all, stuck inside a solid 24 carat Apple logo and surrounded by a 24 carat gold backplate weighing a whopping 2,000 grams. Flip it over and the front panel’s crafted of Ammolite, which–I had to look it up, too–is an extremely rare opal-like gemstone formed from extinct marine mollusks (okay, so describing it as “the oldest rock the world has to offer…over 75 million years old” sounds sexier). As if that weren’t enough, these guys splintered off sections of a Tyrannosaurus Rex’s thigh bone, shaved those into the Ammolite, then topped it off with a single cut 8.5 carat diamond inlaid in platinum and surrounded by another 12 diamonds. Want to buy one? You’d better hurry, because it sounds like they’ve only made two.
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Bugatti Veyron Super Sports ($1,700,000)
What do superheroes drive? Probably cars less over-the-moon expensive than the Bugatti Veyron 16.4, the world’s highest-priced as well as second-fastest luxury auto (it’ll do zero to 60 in 2.5 seconds and zero to 100 in five). What do you get for nearly $2 million of rainy day money? Try an 8.0 liter, 16-cylinder engine with four turbochargers (it takes 10 radiators to cool the thing), four-wheel drive, a dual-clutch DSH computer-controlled manual transmission and a top speed of 253 miles per hour (computer-limited to save the tires–it can actually go faster still), a speed that “would literally lift the car off the ground,” save for its “ingenious aerodynamics.” For all that, ecologically efficient it’s not: Look for 8 mpg in the city, and just 13 mpg on the highway.