The iPad can control the yacht from a distance of 164 feet. The Adastra superyacht is 140 feet long, weighs about 47 tons and can travel 4,000 nautical miles at 17 knots. Top speed is 22.5 knots. It was designed by John Shuttleworth and looks like a cross between a spaceship and a hovercraft. It took five years and cost $15 million to build. It was constructed in China by McConaghy Boats. The Adastra fits nine guests and six crew members.

The yacht was streamlined using glass and Kevlar foam and a superstructure made up of carbon fiber with a honeycomb core. It was made for Hong Kong shipping industry billionaire Anto Marden to shuttle between Indonesian islands that he owns.

[via Daily Mail via DVice]

Just some of the items that followed this formula to a T are as follows: the Oscheriyori lunch box, the Endless Happiness pen, this Model Lamborghini, and the bejeweled version of the Tata Nano.

The newest ridiculously expensive item to be added to the above list is Brikk’s line of cases for the iPhone 4. The company had earlier announced that that they were releasing cases that were made from pure titanium called “Trim” that will be priced from $2,500 to $4,500. That’s already expensive as things stand, as the iPhone itself retails for a whole lot less than a thousand bucks.

Now Brikk’s CEO Cyrus Blacksmith has revealed that they’re also set on releasing another case for the iPhone come 2012, and this time, they aren’t holding anything back. The planned case for next year will be covered in over 600 diamonds, totaling a weight of 6 carats, and is said to retail at around $100,000 and up. Talk about expensive. As some sort of exchange for producing and selling luxury items that most people will never be able to afford, Brikk will be donating 25 metric tons of rice (yes, rice) for every sale of the Brikk Trim Couture case to a charitable NGO of their choice, so at least that’s something.

[via The Rich Times via Oh Gizmo!]

You can buy a few really nice cars, put your kids through college, buy steaks to last you a the rest of your life – or you could blow over two hundred grand for a single meal in a gold lunch box. While about $168k of the value of the meal lies in the 3.3kg gold lunch box, that still makes for over $60k for lunch.

For that amount, you can expect to sample some of the world’s most rare and exotic food, but you get quite a typical selection for your palate in this lunch box: root vegetables, sushi rolls, sashimi, and other rice and meat dishes.

These insanely expensive lunches are being served up at the Takashimaya Restaurant in New York and are part of a promotion by the restaurant for the New Year.

[WSJ via Born Rich]

Or you could just blow the whole amount on one bed.

Yes, you read that right. The HiCan (“High-Fidelity Canopy”) bed goes for $60,000, which is as steep as steep gets when it comes to beds.

So what does the HiCan have under the covers that can justify such a price? For starters, it’s got retractable privacy blinds, so you can just skip installing blinds on your windows if you plan on putting the bed next to it. (But really, why would you?)

Aside from that, it also has its own video projector with a retractable screen at the foot of the bed, a state-of-the-art sound system, a multimedia PC, a gaming console, and a pair of reading lights for some late-night reading. Now all it needs is a refrigerator, a microwave, and the kitchen sink to make it worth its asking price.

You can select from eight available colors when you place your order for the bed at HiCan’s site (but really, I think you should just go buy a car with your money. Or better yet, put it in the bank.) You might have to wait a while before you can actually get to lay in your luxury bed because there’s still a waiting list going for the bed.

[via Fancy via Oh Gizmo!]

That catamaran isn’t nearly as cool as the Necker Nymph. No, that isn’t some sort of porn show you can only see aboard the catamaran, it’s a submarine. The sub is sort of like an underwater airplane. It looks sort of like the Lotus Esprit that James Bond turned into a submarine to me.

You can rent the Necker Nymph for a full day along with an underwater chauffeur to drive you and a guest around under the waves for a full day if you have the loot. The sub isn’t enclosed so you will need SCUBA gear and dives can last for up to two hours at up to 30-meters deep. At $2,500 (USD) per day, the rental is surprisingly reasonable (at least if you’re Sir Richard Branson).

[via GadgetReview]

Or maybe you could use it to buy something insanely expensive, like the Devon Tread Watch or one of those gold Æsir phones. That, or I could blow everything to buy the Endless Happiness Pen designed by Anita Tan.

So the next time you hit the town with this pen pinned to your breast pocket, you can literally say that you feel like a million bucks.

Kidding aside, the Heaven Gold Pen was created to celebrate the beginning of the year 2012. Ironic, since it’s also a year that a lot of people say would spell the end for all of mankind. The pen is studded with over 161 sparkling color diamonds that will (forgive me) be sure to bring you endless happiness. Of course, you could just sell them off one by one when you get strapped for cash.

Now to address the big elephant in the room: how much is this pen worth? Well, just a few thousand short of a million, since it’s priced at $995,510. Did your jaw drop like mine did?

[via Gadgets Matrix]

Jag will make the cars for the UK only, and the gasoline and electric motors combined will produce 800bhp. That will be good enough for 0-62mph in three seconds and 0-100mph in six seconds. The top speed will be 200mph. The body is made from carbon fiber and it will be very green.

That is a supercar for sure, and it gets a super price. The car will sell for between £700,000 and £900,000 (appx. $1.14 to $1.47 million).

[via topgear]

And when I say “luxury,” I mostly mean “insanely expensive.”

The silver version of these extravagant phones go for £6,400 ($10,560 USD) while the gold-plated one sells for a lofty £37,000 ($61,000).

Now here’s the kicker: you’d think that for something with that price, you’d be getting a state-of-the-art smartphone that’s equipped with futuristic features that will make your money well worth it, right? Wrong. Because essentially, what you’re paying for is appearances.

Fact is, these Æsir phones aren’t even smart. (What I mean to say is, they aren’t smartphones.) You can’t browse the net with them, you can’t constantly update your Facebook profile or send out tweets, and they don’t even have cameras. But what you can do with these phones is make calls, send text messages, set some alarms, or create a to-do list. In short, the Æsir phone is basic phone with the most basic of functions, reminiscent of the day’s of Nokia’s 5110 (which happened to be the first mobile phone I ever owned.)

These phones are actually three years in the making and are constructed from watch-grade materials. The gold version is made of 18 carat solid yellow gold, while the silver one is made of stainless steel. Both are equipped with a sapphire crystal lens with ARdur™ coating and a ceramic upper finished with a high-grade and ultra-glossy finish.

[via Luxury Launches]

This incredibly expensive toilet has got a bidet, integrated deodorizer, and air dryer for your bum. The lid will automatically open and close, sort of like a Transformer. There is even a seat and foot warmer and a built-in music system so that you can listen to something nice while you’re doing your business. Plus it’s all controlled from a fancy touchscreen remote.

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While I don’t doubt that this sounds revolutionary, I can’t imagine spending over $6k on a crapper. If you must experience something like this, spend the night in a suite at a  high-end hotel and poop in their fancy toilets instead.

[via Kohler]

This fancy schmancy iPhone case will probably end up costing you a few thousand dollars, so quite a few times more expensive than the iPhone 4 itself. It features a De Bethune pocket watch in its leather back that has a schmancy DB 1024 movement. Seems a bit odd since you can just look at your iPhone to check out the time, but what do I know?

If you drop iPhone in this case, chances are that it won’t survive a 1,000 foot drop. On top of that, your fancy watch will probably break too.

[via Luxury Launches via CrunchGear]

A new safe called the chromos from Brown Safe Manufacturing has debuted. The safe stands upright and looks to be pretty large. The thing is designed to keep fancy watches safe and even has a slew of automatic watch winders to keep your fancy collection on time.

The safe is claimed to be the most advanced ever with biometric finger print recognition, GPS anti-theft, a multi-sensor alarm, and more. It’s also supposed to be the only safe in the world made from military-grade ballistic armor. The watch storing section even rotates, but there are other configurations available too. I would bet this is one of those “if you have to ask, you can’t afford it” things.

[via YankoDesign]

I guess for the sort of folks that consider themselves audiophiles listening on a plain CD player or the PS3 is sort of like a muscle car enthusiast driving around in a minivan. Still, the Vincent Audio C-60 CD player is crazy expensive at $4,695. That much money gets you a CD player that has both vacuum and solid-state output stages.

The output stage can be changed with a remote control to give the vacuum tune sound that some audiophiles apparently like. The device has a top-loading CD tray that promises to skip no bits during playback. The thing has balanced XLR output along with unbalanced RCA, coaxial optical out, and digital outputs. Still, for $4,695 this thing better be delivered to my door lovingly packed between the massive fun bags of Jessica Simpson.

Still, if you have more money than god, you might want to check out Transmission Audio’s Ultimate, a gigantic speaker that houses an array of seven-foot tall panels loaded with an ungodly amount of speakers. Measuring in at nearly 19 feet wide, and loaded up with forty 15-inch subwoofers, twenty-four 8-inch woofers, and a boatload of 2-inch and 1-inch ribbon tweeters, it’s best to think of The Ultimate like a meta-speaker, rather than a single entity. That said, each one is still a designed for mono sound – so if you’re looking for stereo, be prepared to shell out a cool $2 million bones. And for a full 7.1 sound system, you’ll be looking at more than the GNP of some third-world countries.

Frequency response for the Ultimate is rated at an unreal 15Hz to 50kHz, and each system comes with a set of six 500-watt-per-channel dual mono amps, capable of cranking out a total of 6,000 ear-shattering watts of power. At full blast, the speakers can pump out an astounding 146dB SPL. That’s somewhere between “HUMAN BODY FEELS AS IF SOMEONE JUST FOOTBALL TACKLED YOUR CHEST” and “FORMULA 1 RACE CAR, 700 HORSEPOWER” on the decibel chart. Now that’s what I call a sonic boom. Just don’t come crying to me when your neighbors call the cops.

[via UltimateAVmag via The Audiophiliac]

It’s elegantly designed by Lee McCormack and beautifully engineered by McLaren Applied Technologies. Which makes me wonder why there are no images of the ovei’s interior on the product website. Dammit. I want to see! At least they have video:

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What the hell’s a multimeedyer? I guess it’s something that only rich techies would know: the base price of the Ovei is £50,000 ($70, 855). People won’t be paying for the 5.1 Surround Sound, 26″ screen, climate control and all that tech: it’s the suave side of the Ovei that demands that joke of a price. I hope they release a shabbier but cheaper version.

If you’re rich enough to buy an Ovei, give me some money. Also, you can email the Oculas Group at sales@oculas.com or call them at +44–(0)20–7613–4293. Everyone else just drool over the brochure.

[via Web Urbanist]

Called the “iPhone 3G King’s Button”, each of these mind-blowing creations is adorned with 18-carat yellow gold, white gold and rose gold. I didn’t even know there was a rose gold. Then it gets insane: lining the phone’s frame are 138 “brilliant cut” diamonds. Then it goes up to 11: The King’s Button’s Home button is topped with a 6.6 carat diamond.

The price by the way doesn’t take into account the 20% VAT.

Folks, diamonds are just compressed carbon. What the hell. Sometimes I wonder what would happen if all the farmers in the world decided to jack up the price of their products to diamond-like prices. But that’s just me.

[via I4U News]

Part of Gucci’s appropriately named iGucci series, these luxury LCD watches feature a cool round white-on-black display, set behind a sturdy sapphire crystal. The LCD combines a small dot-matrix display showing the current mode, and a pair of segmented displays which can show the time in two time zones simultaneously. I especially like the alternate display mode which shows the time using virtual analog hands.

It’s all set into a substantial stainless steel body that’s water resistant to 3-atmospheres (appx. 100-feet). You’ve got your choice of either a black or red rubber wristband, which of course features the inimitable GUCCI logotype.

Of course, all this upper-crusty goodness comes at a price. List price for the watches is around $1300 each, but I was able to find them over on eBay for under $1000. Such a deal.

The DaVinciAudio Labs AAS Gabriel turntable bases its unique design on the same process that’s used to cut grooves into masters for vinyl discs. In theory, this provides the absolute ideal playback environment for records. The turntable is designed to produce absolutely zero noise or vibration, and goes so far as to completely isolate the pick-up arm from the rest of the player.

For those with a deep love for vinyl, and even deeper pockets, the Luxury Edition is available for $41,250 as shown (in 24-karat gold and white), while the “cheap” silver and black version will set you back only $35,400.

[via Audio Junkies]

The watch has a unique flipping case design that reveals a modern light-on-dark LCD watch on the backside of the analog face. The watch has a slick stainless case, a durable sapphire crystal on each face and a black leather band with crocodile embossing. It’s water resistant to 50 meters, and has day, date, alarm and chronograph features.

The luxurious Monaco 69 retails for almost $7000, but I found a limited quantity of them on Gemnation for the low, low price of $4280.

Luxury Swiss watch maker Hublot has revealed to our friends over at WatchLuxus that they’ll be setting up an impressive virtual shop on Second Life a little later this month. You’ll be able to immerse yourself in the upscale environs of the Hublot Island store, complete with elegant contemporary interior design, fancy landscaping, bars to hang out in and even a place to dock your imaginary yacht.

You’ll be able to peruse the collection of Hublot’s elegant high-tech and traditional watches and let your avatar accessorize with them. The Hublot virtual store will open its doors on September 12th. I’m not sure how many virtual bucks their timepieces will cost, but given the fancy digs, I’m sure that you’ll have to save up a few Lindens. But your virtual friends will certainly be impressed.

[via WatchLuxus]