Our Favorite Things: Last-Minute Gift Ideas (Day Four)

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Hasselblad H4D-60 ($42,000)

You want megapixels? This uber-pricey medium-sized DSLR camera has enough to make the stars (and your wallet) weep–60 in all, making it one of the highest resolution cameras in existence. It features a CCD sensor that measures 40.2 by 53.7 mm, or (the company claims) “more than twice the physical size of the largest 35mm DSLR sensor.” Tilt sensors, true-focus, absolute position lock, digital lens correction, electronic spirit level, they’re all here, even if many of you (including me) won’t know what most of that stuff means. But if you’re serious about photography (and seriously loaded), the H4D-60 sounds like the apotheosis of DSLRs. Just, you know, don’t drop the thing.

(MORE: Our Favorite Things: Last-Minute Gift Ideas–Day One)

Luvaglio Laptop ($1,000,000)

Sure, it looks like something Ernest Hemingway might’ve done to a computer were he alive and a tech enthusiast (kill a leopard with your bare hands, skin your laptop with its…skin) but then for a million bucks, what else are you going to wrap around this thing? But no, for a million large, you get surprisingly little: a Blu-ray drive, 128GB solid state storage, an inbuilt USB stick and MP3 player, a bejeweled (literally, not the game) power button, a self-cleaning screen (sounds gimmicky, Luvaglio) and a motorized storage box. Luvaglio’s keeping mum on everything else, but probably something Intel-derivative at maximum specs. Kind of ridiculous? Yep, but then so is Diamond Barbie.

MORE: Check out Techland’s 2011 Holiday Gift Ideas

Matt Peckham is a reporter at TIME. Find him on Twitter at @mattpeckham, Google+ or Facebook. You can also continue the discussion on TIME’s Facebook page and on Twitter at @TIME.

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