Further searching on the web has led me to even more outrageously expensive tech gadgets.  Check them out below.

The World’s Most Expensive Mouse:

For those who want nothing less than the best, I present to you the world’s most expensive mouse. This mouse is encrusted with 59 individual diamonds and is cast from 18 karat white gold.  It features USB and PS/2 connectivity to your computer, and is thankfully an optical mouse.   It is being offered by the Swiss company Pat Says Now for a mere $24,000.

The Super Expensive Jewelry PCs:

Moneual Lab announced three jewelry PCs designed by Lee Buckingham.  Each of the PCs is, of course, outrageously expensive due to the value of the jewels adorned on them.  One of the Jewelry PCs (the Moneual Renaissance) is expected to cost $1 million dollars. All of them are decorated with the most expensive blue Sapphires, Topazes, Rubies, Diamonds, and other precious gemstones.

The Moneual Renaissance system features 18K white and yellow gold is decorated with fine Rubies on the front panel of the system.  As far as the technical specs go, the Renaissance features the AMD Athlon64 FX processor, 2 terra byte HDD (RAID), 8GB Samsung system memory, blue-ray disc drive, a digital home motherboard by ASUS, HDMI capable graphics from AMD-ATI, Windows Vista Ultimate Edition, a silent cooling fan from Zalman, and two PCI HDTV cards from SIGMACOM.

The next system, the Baroque, is in 18K gold and is decorated with blue Sapphires on the front panel of the system.  The Baroque has the same system specifications as the Renaissance.

The last system, Rococo, is in 18K yellow and white gold, and is decorated with diamonds on the front panel of the system.

The company is considering making 100 additional Jewelry PCs, all encrusted with semi-precious stones, at at more affordable price of $30,000.  Three “value” models are also in the works which will be introduced at the $15,000 price range.

I wonder if anyone has the world’s most expensive cell phone, MP3 player, mouse, and PC.  That would have to be the world’s most expensive tech set-up!

If you’re a working class person like myself, you’ll probably never have the opportunity to buy any of the gadgets I’m about to share with you, but it’s still fun to oogle!  If you’re lucky and you’ve got the big bucks, then maybe you’ll be interested in one of these high-class pieces of modern technology.

The World’s Most Expensive Cell Phone:

For the person who literally has everything, there’s always room for a little bling-bling in the form of the world’s most expensive cell phone – The Diamond Crypto Smartphone.  This beauty features a platinum body and 50 diamonds, 10 of which are rare blue diamonds.  The phone runs off of Windows CE, and features a high-resolution TFT display, and a 256-bit crytographic algorithm. It also features SMS, MMS, E-mail, WAP, and internet capabilities.  The phone supports JAVA, and also has a fun media player.  For all that, this phone will set you back just $1.3 million USD.

The World’s Most Expensive MP3 Player:

Blinged out iPods just got outdone – the TrekStor i.Beat Organix Gold MP3 player might very well take the crown in the mp3 player bling department. This mp3 player features 18-karat gold casing and 63 diamonds that together make up 1-karat, which leaves us with one hefty price tag of $20,000. It features 1GB of storage, and has dual headphone jacks.

In the earlier part of 2006, I purchased the 4″x6″ Wacom Intuos3 Pen Tablet, which retails for around $230. I really wanted to get the next size up, the 6″x8″, but at the price of $330 I was not ready to spend that much. So I settled on the smaller one.

I recently was sent an 8″x6″ Manhattan Graphics Tablet to try out by the folks over at Technical Cable Applications. Right off, I loved the larger size of this tablet. This larger size makes it much easier to get things done, and is easier to handle. Another feature that I liked about the tablet itself are the hot keys around the border of the drawing surface; those can really come in handy.

Then drawing pen that comes with this tablet I prefer over the one that comes with the Intuos3. Manhattan’s pen feels more like an actual pen, and has a similiar weight to a real pen, so to me it felt more natural. The Intuos3 pen is lighter and a bit longer than a normal pen. One thing the Intuos3 pen featured that the Manhattan one did not was an “eraser”, but this didn’t really bother me as I mainly use the “step backwards” feature in Photoshop anyways.

The pressure-sensitivity of the pen and tablet worked out great for me, although it did seem to be very slightly less sensitive than the Wacom. I also liked the mouse that came with the Manhattan tablet. The Intuos3 mouse has a felt-like surface that attracts dust, particles, and cat hair like a magnet. The Manhattan mouse did not have such side effects.

I’ll admit that I was somewhat skeptical of this tablet as all I’ve heard anyone talk about is the Wacom tablets, but after trying it out for myself, I think I prefer the Manhattan tablet over the Wacom one I have. It is also much more affordable at just $79.95 and free UPS shipping!

HTC’s next smartphone goes by the name of Vox and does things a little differently than current HTC smartphones: it’s got a full size, slide out QWERTY keyboard. On top of that is the rumblings that it might use Crossbow, the newer version of Windows Mobile.

This is all just rumor and hearsay, the Vox should feature a 2.4-inch display as well as the normal amenities like Wi-Fi, EDGE support and Bluetooth. If these specs end up being true, then the only new feature would be the slide out keyboard which is pretty handy though

Get your computer and desk ready for the holiday season by picking up some neat USB Christmas decorations.  You’ll have the coolest desktop in the office (or at home)!

Check out the USB Christmas Decoration Kit available for just $18.  It includes a string of colorful LED lights in the shape of little presents, a little Christmas hat (apparently for you to wear while sitting at the computer…), and a festive Christmas mousepad.

If you’ve got extra USB ports, you might also be interested in some of these neat little light-up Christmas figures. There’s Santa Clause, drumming Santa, drumming Snowman, LED Musical Snowman, a Musical Santa, LED Christmas trees, and even fiber optic Christmas trees.

 

 

Today SanDisk announced the availability of 12GB and 16GB Extreme III CompactFlash cards to come in December of this year.  This is great news for photography buffs who need lots of storage, as well as those with digital camcorders and other devices that utilize a lot of storage.  Both the 12GB and 16GB versions have read and write speeds of 20MB/second.  The only downside to these babies?  The price.  They will cost $779.99 and $1,049.99 respectively. 

I want one!  It would be perfect for my digital camcorder.  The highest card I saw anywhere was a 2GB, but right now all I have is a 1GB.  The 1GB gives me about an hour of video time, or several thousand photos.  16GB would be heaven.  Add this to my Christmas wish list.