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Gadgets for the One Percent: What's the Most Ridiculous?

SodaHead News 2012/04/23 21:00:00
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CNBC recently published an article called "Gadgets for the 'One Percent'" spotlighting some of the most extravagant, ornate, and exquisite items in the tech world, from a $2,800 pair of leather-and-wood sound-isolating headphones from Ultrasone to a $2 million personal submarine from Hammacher Schlemmer.

personal submarine

Some of these items are expensive for the sake of being expensive, like a $1 million Luvaglio laptop that can only be unlocked with a fitted diamond.

laptop

On the more practical end -- key word "more" -- is the $8,400 Samsung SUR40, a touchscreen desktop computer that's actually a desktop. Or how about the 60 megapixel Hasselblad H4D camera, or the $58,000 Red Epic-M video camera that can shoot at 96 frames per second.

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There's even a $10,700 Vertu Signature cell phone that comes with an OnStar-esque "concierge service" and ringtones played by the London Symphony Orchestra. So, we've got to ask: which item is the most ridiculous of them all?

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  • Joey 2012/04/23 21:14:54
    $1 million laptop
    Joey
    +14
    I would love a personal submarine, and I could do crazy stuff with it . With a 1 million dollar laptop all I can do is go on soda and get insulted for having different views.

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  • TC 2012/04/24 06:46:33 (edited)
    Other...
    TC
    +6
    almost all...
    wtf
  • Gaven Small 2012/04/24 06:05:57
    Personal submarine
    Gaven Small
  • Kibelle 2012/04/24 05:59:47
    Concierge cell phone
    Kibelle
    LOL at the design.
  • Pam 2012/04/24 05:54:03
    Touchscreen table
    Pam
    Though I must admit, the phone is beautiful.
  • arief Cerberus Lucifer 2012/04/24 05:48:08
    Personal submarine
    arief Cerberus Lucifer
    lol
  • Jennifer Cat 2012/04/24 05:46:46
    Other...
    Jennifer Cat
    +4
    I think owning a personal submarine would be awesome, how many of you would pass up the offer if you had the money?
  • diane RN 2012/04/24 03:49:53
    Other...
    diane RN
    +9
    Thank God for that 1% and all they money they spend, all the taxes they pay and the jobs they create by buying all these non neccesities.
  • COCO diane RN 2012/04/24 05:40:06
    COCO
    +4
    Indeed.
  • Stan Weinstein 2012/04/24 03:38:11
    $1 million laptop
    Stan Weinstein
    +1
    Why would anyone pay one million for a laptop unless it was solid gold - and even if it was, what a waste of money.
  • Shiekster Stan We... 2012/04/24 19:05:41
    Shiekster
    So then Weinstein..So then Jewd...What should we spend the gold on eh...The IDF or would you prefer the fillings in your ancestors mouths..?
  • Stan We... Shiekster 2012/04/29 14:00:12 (edited)
  • Slave To The USA 2012/04/24 03:30:03
    Personal submarine
    Slave To The USA
    lol Not sure if I like this lol
  • Jim Lewis 2012/04/24 03:26:44
    Concierge cell phone
    Jim Lewis
    i pick cell phone because it looks like my old nokia, even if it is expensive a blackberry still has a bigger useeable screen and taht also looks like it has t9 texting
  • Bibliophilic 2012/04/24 03:25:23
    Concierge cell phone
    Bibliophilic
    It's ugly as well
  • MOMMA THOMAS 2012/04/24 03:24:50
    Other...
    MOMMA THOMAS
    +1
    HOW ABOUT ALL OF THE ABOVE?
  • Sam Nielsen 2012/04/24 03:21:29
    Other...
    Sam Nielsen
    +1
    Since the 1% own roughly 98% of the worlds resources..... Id say that would be the most ridiculous... Lets take back what they stole from us. After all.... its OUR labor and money they buy these toys with.
  • diane RN Sam Nie... 2012/04/24 19:01:30
    diane RN
    +1
    Without THEIR money you wouldn't have YOUR labor.
  • Sam Nie... diane RN 2012/04/26 23:56:50
    Sam Nielsen
    that is SO wrong its laughable watch the movie "thrive" if you need an understanding. its on you tube.
  • diane RN Sam Nie... 2012/04/27 03:04:00
    diane RN
    Dont need to, I know how the economy works, if no one buys gadgets the company lays off workers or goes out of business. Simple as that.
  • Sam Nie... diane RN 2012/04/27 06:20:13
    Sam Nielsen
    your not even looking in the right direction. You really have no idea what I'm talking about because your response has nothing to do with what I was talking about. watch the movie if you are curious about how our money system really works....if not then its your loss. so long.
  • Shiekster Sam Nie... 2012/04/24 19:08:03
    Shiekster
    Ok..Barbarian..Work harder and use your brain, for once, and you "Might" be a 1 percenter 2...
  • Sam Nie... Shiekster 2012/04/27 00:12:06
    Sam Nielsen
    The Federal reserve system is the largest fraud ever perpetrated on the face of the Earth. They counterfeit trillions of dollars every year and most of it ends up in the pockets of the 1%..... Watch the movie "Thrive" for an education about what is REALLY going on behind the scenes( www.thrivemovement.com). I will NEVER be like those tapeworms and suck the life out of the economy just for my own power and gain. They are to be despised and driven out.... as is currently underway. Over 1000 bankers have resigned within the last 4 months and many more ore on the way.
  • handimom 2012/04/24 03:12:03
    $1 million laptop
    handimom
    +1
    If I was a millionaire, there's a couple of these I wouldn't mind having.
  • birdie1224 2012/04/24 02:59:04
    $1 million laptop
    birdie1224
    not even worth it
  • Melody 2012/04/24 02:54:55
    $1 million laptop
    Melody
    +1
    Greedy b/astards
  • pradeep Melody 2012/04/24 08:08:45
    pradeep
    +2
    hai u r lookin g beautiful and prestigious than the laptop
  • Bulbasaurus Rex. 2012/04/24 02:47:40
  • Nameless 2012/04/24 02:34:57
    Concierge cell phone
    Nameless
    Okay, I'll admit it... If I were in the top 1%, I would LOVE to have a personal submarine, but I wouldn't spend the money on it. It would be damned cool, though.
  • Rubyking 2012/04/24 02:34:37
    96 FPS video camera
    Rubyking
    they should be getting alot more fps, considering they just passed one trillion
  • Clyde 2012/04/24 02:29:07
    Other...
    Clyde
    +10
    The most ridiculous thing is the jealousy and envy and class warfare of the author of this post. It's money being spent and creating and or continuing peoples employment and stimulating the economy. It should be all of our goals, should we wish to, to become wealthy enough to afford these things and to keep a system that affords that opportunity to all that wish to endeavor to achieve it. bitterness and resentment do nothing but eat away at your soul and kill your spirit. This man said it best I think, so I will end with his words of wisdom.
    Lincoln quote poor
  • COCO Clyde 2012/04/24 05:41:28
  • Flowers Clyde 2012/04/24 14:07:56
    Flowers
    +3
    awesome quote, I'm reposting!
  • Clyde Flowers 2012/04/24 14:43:00
    Clyde
    +3
    Please do, thanks.
    The sad irony is obama likens himself to Lincoln when he is the antithesis of all of what he believed.
  • Ron in ... Clyde 2012/04/24 19:06:13
    Ron in Oregon
    +1
    Clyde you are right on.
  • Lisa 2012/04/24 01:58:44
    $1 million laptop
    Lisa
    +1
    If I were super rich I would just get a macbook pro for a laptop. macbook pro
  • animelover123 2012/04/24 01:55:41
    Touchscreen table
    animelover123
    +1
    Why would you need that?
  • Defend ... animelo... 2012/04/24 01:59:07
    Defend Western Civlization
    +2
    who are you to decide what people need?
  • animelo... Defend ... 2012/04/24 01:59:44
    animelover123
    +1
    Just saying a table? why not a wall, that would be awesome
  • Franklin animelo... 2012/04/24 13:17:09
    Franklin
    we have walls ...well we have 6 foot touch screen monitors (same thing ) -
  • Shiekster Defend ... 2012/04/24 19:10:06
    Shiekster
    You are you to question..?

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