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Newell Coach)
If you haven't watched MTV in awhile, your idea of luxury RVs may be a little outdated. And even if you have, there's a good chance that a lot of rock stars don't have it this good.
This mini-mansion on wheels is built by Newell Coach with the help of Porsche Engineering, a feat made possible by a C15 Caterpillar engine and a 10-speed transmission, according to Luxurylaunches. But it's the interior of the satellite-equipped P2000i that's most impressive, looking more like a seagoing luxury liner than anything that could fit on the road, with an LCD or plasma TV in every portion and compartment of the 45-foot-long vehicle (including the dashboard).
Perhaps most surprising is that as many as 40 of these monsters--which take 10 months each to build--are produced each year, at more than $1 million apiece. Apparently, John Madden has some serious competition.
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MacDaddy's Fishing Lures)
With the sport of fishing becoming increasingly high-tech, there are new gadgets coming on the market all the time. This isn't one of them. Will that stop us from posting about it? Of course not.
That's because we simply must share this "Million Dollar Lure" just to purge it from our system, in a combination of awe and disgust. It's the ultimate creation of an outfit called MacDaddy's Fishing Lures ("We Put the Bling in Your String!"): The foot-long "lure" comprises 3 pounds of platinum and gold festooned with 4,753 diamonds and rubies, according to Lussorian--that's more than 100 carats of precious rock. It's certainly one way to class up the "Bass Fishing Wii."
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HigherFi)
For some time now, we've been playing a little game to see how high speaker prices would go. Most have come in around the level of the "Vivid Audio B1 Loudspeakers" ($13,500 a pair) or the "Karissima" line ($24,400 each), but some have reached as high as the $140,000 or $150,000 (the "Muon" and "La Sphere," respectively).
Chump change.
Meet the "Grand Enigma," a set that tops a list of "the world's most expensive speakers" compiled by HigherFi. The price? A cool $1 million.
Shiny Shiny notes that speakers, made by Netherlands-based Kharma, comprise the only set of its kind ever made, so no need to hunt around for order information. But there's another set from Wisdom Audio that's a steal at $600,000.
The 'official' photo
(Credit: Luxurylaunches)The plot thickens. Last month, we mentioned a mysterious "$1 million laptop about which precious little was known. That's still the case, but a few more tantalizing (and still unconfirmed) details are slowly emerging.
Luxurylaunches claims to have the first "official" photo of the laptop from Luvaglio, the namesake company of entrepreneur Rohan Sinclair Luvaglio, and describes it thusly: "The laptop combines intelligent gadgetry with state of the art technology, such as solid-state storage, Blu-ray, built-in USB memory stick and MP3 player, integrated screen cleaning and functional jewelry. The laptop will be finished to the owner's choice of precious metals, leathers and real woods."
The handmade computer, which is scheduled for release this summer, is supposedly fully upgradeable. That's good news, because we wouldn't want to shell out another million just for more memory.
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Luxurylaunches)
At long last, relief from public ridicule. You've been suffering in the embarrassment of having to tote around that low-end $350,000 Tulip Ego for months, but someone has finally come along with a portable computer worthy of your elevated station. (How on earth could you be expected to carry a laptop that costs less than your cell phone?)
A rather mysterious company named Luvaglio of London has supposedly created a $1 million laptop, which Luxurylaunches says is "believed to integrate real diamonds and other precious jewelry into the chassis of the system." But any facts have been far outweighed by speculation, much of which was sparked by the YouTube clip below that depicts the laptop emerging from its packaging.
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