Sonicare Crest i8500 IntelliClean Toothbrush

The Sonicare Crest IntelliClean ($140) may be the most expensive toothbrush out there, but it's easily worth twice as much. It combines bristles that run at more than 30,000 strokes per minute and gentle sonic waves to clean away plaque from your teeth — and cleans in between them and along the gum line better than any toothbrush in the world. It has a built-in liquid toothpaste dispensing system, dual speed control, and an automatic timer that beeps every 30 seconds to remind you to move to another part of your mouth and turns off after the recommended brushing time of two minutes. Oh, and for wimps like us, the Sonicare lets you get acquainted with it gently thanks to a feature that gradually increases brushing power over the first 14 uses.

The Aurora Diamante is world's most expensive pen at $1.3 million

I do appreciate certain 'bling bling' objects, but sometimes it just gets too much to handle. Take for instance this tiny pen that is all set to become the worlds most expensive one thanks to its 'bling bling' factor. Known as The Aurora Diamante, it is covered with over 30 carats of De Beers diamonds on a solid platinum barrel. It has a two-tone, rhodium-treated, 18KT solid gold nib and is personalized with a coat of arms, signature, or portrait. A jewel more than a pen, it is definitely classy. So exclusive is this pen that only one will be produced per year. Aurora Pens claim it is the only over 30-carat pen in the world, making it one of the most expensive ones ever. Priced at over €1 million ($1.3 million), this pen is definitely a great way to laugh in the face of recession.

Most Expensive Beer

Beer is one of the oldest drinks known to man—and one of this writer’s favorites. While many people enjoy drinking light beer and less expensive beer, some beer drinkers are still connoisseurs even though they don’t sip wine. The world’s most expensive beers are proof enough of that.

Carlsberg Vintage No.1 - $395 per bottle

The Carlsberg Group, a brewing company founded in 1847 and named after founder J. C. Jacobson’s son Carl, is best known for their light-bodied lager, Carlsberg Pilsner (also known as Carlsberg Beer or Carlsberg Hof). Recently, however, Carlsberg introduced another beer guaranteed to be linked to the Carlsberg name in the public consciousness. That’s because they’re Vintage No. 1 is one of the most expensive beers in the world.

Vintage No. 1 will be sold at three different restaurants in Copenhagen. The 10.5 proof beer’s introduction is meant to capitalize on the growing luxury market in Denmark, as the country’s population of 5.4 million people includes 16 billionaires. Only 600 bottles of the beer were made and each bottle holds four-fifths of a pint.

The price of the beer, 2,008 Danish kroner, reflects the year it was introduced. The brewer plans to introduce a similarly priced beer in 2009 and another in 2010. There are no plans to export the expensive beer, though individual bottles may be available on the brewer’s website.

Due to the undisclosed amount of time taken to brew it, the Carlsberg Group does not expect to make a profit on the expensive beer.

Samuel Adams Utopias - $100 per bottle

Vintage No. 1 may be four times as expensive as Samuel Adams/Boston Beer Company’s Utopias, the former most expensive beer, but Utopias still holds a Guinness World Record for being the strongest beer at 50 proof.

Utopias was brewed with a blend of high-quality hops and sold in an ornate copper-plated brew kettle and offers a flavor unlike any other expensive beer or beverage in the world. The sweet flavor is richly highlighted with hints of vanilla, oak and caramel. The expensive beer is non-carbonated and should be served at room temperature.

Production of Utopias was limited to 8,000 bottles.

Tutankhamun Ale - $52 per bottle

This expensive beer has a peculiar history. It’s brewed in a Cambridge laboratory from a recipe discovered in the Queen Nefertiti’s Temple of the Sun in Egypt. The beer is named after the queen’s stepson, more commonly known as King Tut. The temple, which housed a brewery, is believed to have been built by King Akenhaten, Tut’s predecessor and likely father. This beer is also limited and may be purchased for $52 per bottle.

World’s Most Expensive Cigars

Cigar tobacco is grown in many places throughout the Americas and Caribbean, but certain cigars manufactured in Cuba are widely considered the best cigars in the world. Sometimes, a cigar is just a cigar. As expensive cigars are symbols of wealth and success, the world’s most expensive cigars may hold far more value than their price tag suggests.

Altadis’ Behike

When Altadis of Spain launched their “Behike” cigars, they were the most expensive cigars in the world. The expensive cigars were reportedly named after the tribal chief or sorcerer of the Cuban/pre-Colombian Taino tribe. A mere four thousand of the limited edition Cohiba brand cigars have been released and each box includes forty expensive cigars and allegedly retails for around $18,846. Yes, the expensive cigar will cost you $420 for each smoke.

Gurkha’s His Majesty’s Reserve

They’ve been outdone, however, by Gurkha’s premier cigar, His Majesty’s Reserve. Rightfully touted as the most expensive cigar in the world, these cigars aren’t just made with premium tobacco—they’re also infused with a generous portion of Louis XIII Cognac in a process that retains the flavor of the tobacco. Louis XIII Cognac, as you may know, is one of the finest cognacs on the market today.
Each year, fewer than 100 boxes of His Majesty’s Reserve cigars are produced and Gurkha’s president oversees their allocation to retailers. At $750, just one of these most expensive cigars will probably cost more than your vintage smoking jacket, but for the true aficionado, it may be a smoke too good to pass up.

The most expensive toilet in the world purchased by NASA

A NASA spoke woman said that paying 19 million U.S. dollars for a Russian-built international space station toilet system is a bargain compared to building one from scratch. The toilet system, similar to the one already in use in the station's Zvezda Service Module, is scheduled to arrive at the space station in 2008 and will offer more privacy for a crew expected to double from three to six by 2009. Another plus is astronauts are familiar with how it works because it's similar to one already in place at the space station. The space station toilet will be installed on the American side, and the current toilet system on the Russian side will remain in place.

The space station toilet physically resembles those used on Earth, except it has leg restraints and thigh bars to keep astronauts and cosmonauts from floating away. Fans suck waste into the commode. Crew members also have individual urine funnels which are attached to hoses, and the urine is automatically transferred to a U.S. device that can generate potable water.

The world's most expensive vacuum cleaner

Announced last month, The Crystal Ergoripado is a €15,000 vacuum cleaner. Electrolux Floorcare reports that it's been approached by the Guinness people, who believe that it may be the world's most expensive. Made from recycled parts, the one-off vac was created by Polish fashion designer Łukasz Jemioł, who decorated it with 3,730 Swarovski crystals.

No surprise, that inspired by its beautiful form we decided to create something extraordinary – a unique Ergorapido decorated with crystals from CRYSTALLIZED™ - Swarovski Elements collection. To make it even more special, we have chosen black Ergorapido from limited Black&White edition. We established cooperation with Łukasz Jemioł, a young polish fashion designer who is the author of the decoration conception, and Gronowalski Crystal Fashion, the company that carried out the project.

It'll be on show, along with the company's 2009 model lineup, at the Good Housekeeping Institute in London on March 17th.

Most Expensive Cars In The World

What is the most expensive car in the world? The 1931 Bugatti Royale Kellner Coupe was sold for $8,700,000 in 1987. However, that car and many alike will not be included in this list because it is not available on the market today. It is hard to imagine someone would actually spend 8 million dollars on a car instead of using it for something more productive. However, if you have the money and the opportunity, you will definitely spend a small fraction of it to place a few

of these supercars in your garage. Here is the 10 most expensive production cars on the market.

1. Bugatti Veyron $1,700,000. This is by far the most expensive street legal car available on the market today.

Not just a super car that carries on the name of racing driver Pierre Veyron, who, while racing for the original Bugatti car manufacturer, won the 24 hours of Le Mans in 1939, Bugatti Veyron 16.4 is the second fastest car in the world and the most powerful, it can easily pass as a super hero`s car like Batman. It has the fastest acceleration speed, reaching 60 mph in 2.6 seconds.

Endowed with W16 engine-16 cylinders in 4 banks of 4 cylinders fed by four turbochargers, a dual-clutch DSG computer-controlled manual transmission, the Veyron has a length is 4462 mm (175.8 in) a wide of 1998 mm (78.7 in) and hight of 1206 mm (47.5 in). Counting a sum of 10 radiators, for the engine cooling system, for transmission oil, a heat exchanger for the air to liquid intercoolers, for engine oil etc., the car has a power to weight ratio of 529 bhp/tonne.

If we talk about performance we are dazzled by this supercars power to reach 200 and 300 km/h (124 and 186 mph) in 7.3 and respectively 16.7 seconds, wining for herself the name of the quickest-accelerating production car in history. If we count the fact that the top speed of Bugatti Veyron is 253.2 miles per hour (407.5 km/h), a speed limited electronically to prevent tire damage (it can run even faster) we can understand why this spectacular car must consume 40.4 L/100 km (4.82 mpg) when it`s running at top speed and in city driving 24.1 L/100 km.

A model drove by superstars like Tom Cruise, couldn`t name itself cheap, rising the Bugatti Veyron at least of $1,700,000, a price that measures it`s quality. Many new designs has been released since 2006, the color might have changed, but the speed and power remain the same.

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The most expensive egg ever sold was the Faberge Winter Egg and it went for $9.5 million

Fabergé eggs are the most expensive Easter presents in history – worth at least £1m – and many of those that exist today are insured in the Lloyd’s market.

But where did such a pricey present come from? Was chocolate simply not enough?

For Alexander III, the Russian Tzar in 1884, it clearly wasn’t. He approached the country’s most famous jeweller, Carl Fabergé, to ask him to create a bejewelled egg with a surprise inside as a present for his wife Tzarina Maria. The Fabergé Egg was born, or laid, depending on how you look at it.

Tzarina was so delighted with her gift that Fabergé was commissioned to provide her with a different design of egg every Easter.

The popularity of eggs with the Russian Royal Family ensued, and Fabergé produced 56 Imperial Eggs during the following years. As time went on, their purpose evolved from Easter gifts to commemorations of events such as the coronation of Tzar Nicholas II and the opening of the trans-Siberian railway.

They are no less popular today, with the whereabouts of 44 of those Imperial Eggs known, and many in the hands of private collectors.

Which is where Lloyd’s comes in.

Charles Dupplin, head of the Art and Private Client Division at Lloyd’s art insurance specialist Hiscox, said the eggs remained one of the must haves for many private collectors, and Hiscox insures a number of them.

“They are one of those items which every private art collector wants to say they have owned at some time,” he said. “But unlike a painting, they are not the type of piece you could readily display and view. Therefore you do find that the eggs will come onto the market from time to time as collectors seek to sell.

“We have insured the eggs for a number of years for several different clients and at present we do cover some of their owners,” added Dupplin. “The eggs are the ultimate piece of silver and gold frippery and the owners tend to be those with eclectic tastes,”

He added: “Fabergé’s work was inordinately expensive even at the time and he had the ultimate marketing pitch. He would say that if a piece of his work had not sold by the end of that particular season he would simply destroy it. He had clients from all over the world queuing to buy his works. The other thing was that he never made two pieces alike, so any Fabergé item was truly unique.”