If you happen to have an extra £16,200.00 or €18,792.00 or $26,730.00 USD kicking around, why not spend it on the world’s most expensive computer mouse?

Your $26,730.00 USD will get you a mouse made by Swiss manufacturer, Pat Says Now, called “Diamond Flower” that is made from 18 carats of gold and set with 59 brilliant cut diamonds.

You can personalize the mouse by selecting white, yellow or red gold and having black or white trim. The pattern of the diamonds can also be customized.

On top of all that, your mousy $26,730.00 USD will also get you a 3 year warranty.

Now, normally we like to write our own stuff but with the recent iPad launch there has been some fun shots taken at Apple and Charlie Brooker took a great one so we give credit where credit is due:

‘Had it crashed? Or was it being sarcastic?’ Charlie Brooker on the iPad

Websites look great on it. As does video. But books? Here, I’m less convinced

The iPad: the world’s most expensive rectangle. The Guardian wanted me to write a first-impressions review on launch day – but how? I could borrow one from an early adopter, but that wouldn’t be the same. I don’t like poking round other people’s computers. It’s like snooping through their medicine cabinets: quite quickly you can stumble across something you wish you hadn’t seen. I needed a new one, straight out of the packaging. A new one I could keep.

But this being launch day, iPads were bound to be scarcer than cats’ eggs, right? Disappointingly, the Guardian picked one up from the Tottenham Court Road branch of PC World without having to kill anyone.

Typically for Apple, the packaging virtually places the device in your hands with the grace of a well-trained butler. The iPad itself is surprisingly heavy: about the same as a hardback book. It gave me mild arm ache almost immediately. Maybe there’s an app that can tell you how many calories you’re burning just by holding it. The best solution is to adopt a self-consciously casual crossed-legged sitting position, and prop it up with your thigh. Fanboys who wet themselves may cause a short circuit.

The display is extremely glossy, so the first thing you’ll see on your screen is a reflection of your face from an unflattering angle. It also doubles as a fingerprint collector, which means you’ll spend the first hour obsessively wiping it clean on your T-shirt before giving up and ordering an adhesive screen protector from Amazon (which, if the iPhone equivalents are anything to go by, will be impossible to apply without contemplating suicide at least twice). At this price, Apple – nice, friendly Apply – could at least include a couple of free screen protectors and some kind of carry-case, no? Of course not.

You’re required to use iTunes during the setup process, which is like being forced to eat a handful of mud. iTunes is twice as awful as any software crime Microsoft ever inflicted on the world. Up popped a progress bar which turned out to be a work of satirical fiction – lodging fast at 7/8ths complete while making random claims about how long it was going to take to finish. It was impossible to tell if it had crashed or was just being sarcastic. I was scared to pull the sync cable out– and I’m a nerd. So much for Macs being easy to use. Eventually a nice man from MacFormat magazine saw me moaning about it on Twitter and gave me some personal assistance. Your experience may differ.

Eventually it was up and running. And yes, if you’ve used an iPhone, it’s a bit of an anticlimax, although toying with it is undeniably pleasant. The display is supernaturally crisp; the seamless, intuitive interface becomes second nature almost immediately. Once you’ve got used to the weight, it’s perfect for browsing websites while lounging on the sofa. I don’t mean that dismissively: it’s quite an achievement – especially since “browsing websites while lounging on the sofa” is what the vast majority of laptops are currently used for.

So websites look great on it. As does video. The BBC iPlayer is particularly impressive. But books? Here, I’m less convinced. Kindle owners can download a free app which lets them access their books on the iPad; Apple also has its own rival iBook service. In both cases the screen looks superb, and swiping a finger across the screen to flip the page gives you an undeniable futuristic thrill. But the display, luminously gorgeous when replaying video, is simply not suited for reading articles at length.Yes, you can adjust the brightness, but it’s still firing light into your pupils, unlike an ebook screen, with its poncey “electronic ink”.

I doubt many readers will persevere to the final page of a novel, unless it’s a book in which the lead character squints a lot, in which case you’ll have a certain empathy.

Magazines and newspapers, with their shorter read times, may be a different matter. The Guardian’s Eyewitness app, a free interactive gallery of recent photojournalism, looks and feels like the future. If print media really wants to make the transition to devices like these, thinking long and hard about the visual, it needs to think long and hard about the full visual potential.

So do you actually need one? Having used one for the past few hours, I can confidently state that you can safely wait until it’s lighter and cheaper. At the very least, wait until they bring out an app that turns the iPad into a talking Lord Lucan mask which you can hold up in front of your own face and talk through. If there isn’t one already.

Original article from guardian.co.uk.

As if it’s not bad enough that people are shelling out a lot of money for an over-sized iPod, some are shelling out even more for their iPad case.

For a fruity $19,999.99 on top of the cost of your iPad you can display the gizmo in the world’s most expensive iPad case, the Mervis Diamond’s iPad case.

The case itself is studded with 11.43 carats of diamonds hand-set in a micropavé styling.

So if you feel your new iPad is not shiny enough get in contact with Mervis Diamond Importers, they’ll surely help you spend your unwanted cash.

If you are a bit more practical, but still want a nice case then Louis Vuitton iPad cases might be the thing for you.

You can choose the brown leather that has the classic Louis Vuitton logo, if you want everyone to know that you deserve only the best or, you can choose the gunmetal gray color, which is a simple checkerboard pattern, either one will set you back less than the cost of your iPad, a measley $350.00 USD.

Cell phones can be linked back to World War II when radio phones were used for ship to shore communications but the first hand-held radio devices that we know as cell phones date back to 1973.

Stuart Hughes was Born in 1971 in Liverpool, England and along with his wife Katherine Hughes he formed Goldstriker International, a company that has a knack for making common items really, really expensive.

Now when you put Stuart Hughes and cell phones together it’s not surprising that the end result is the world’s most expensive cell phone.

Introducing the GoldstrikeriPhone 3GS Supreme made with 271 grams of 22 ct solid gold. As this is an iPhone, on the back you will find the Apple logo made of 53 flawless diamonds amounting to 1 ct. As for the front, it boasts 136 flawless diamonds that total 68 cts as well as a navigation button made of a single cut very rare 7.1 ct diamond.

Can’t wait to get your hands on one? Better phone the bank first, after all you will have to amass $3.2 million USD.

Considering the iPad is a more expensive and larger iPod it only makes sense to make one as expensive as possible and that’s what Stuart Hughes has done.

The iPad Supreme Gold Edition has a case made of 2,100 grams of 22 ct gold and the Apple logo sports 53 diamonds.

Want one? Be prepared to shell out some serious dough, they go for  £129,995 or roughly $189,000 USD.