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It's finally here, the $8.2 million iPad with dinosaur fossil

Written by Andre Yoskowitz @ 28 Jul 2011 1:37 User comments (12)

It's finally here, the $8.2 million iPad with dinosaur fossil Stuart Hughes has outdone itself this time.
The brand behind such excess as the $3 million iPhone and the £200,000 PlayStation 3 has gone prehistoric this week, designing the "iPad 2 History Edition."

Selling for the very reasonable price of £5,000,000 ($8.2 million USD), the iPad 2 has a frame built from T-Rex dinosaur fossil, alongside the usual diamonds and gold.

Reads the description:

Undoubtably the world?s most unique gadget is the Ipad 2 Gold History Edition. Encrusted with 12.5 cts of I'F' Flawless diamonds, a magnificent total of 53 individually set sparkling gems dwell beautifully in solid 24ct Apple logo with rear section formed again in 24ct gold weighing an immense 2,000 grams.

The unrivalled imagination towards the craftmanship of the iapd is down to its main front frame which is made from the oldest rock the world has to offer in the form of Ammolite , sourced from Canada this stone is over 75 million years old. However to make this masterpiece even more individual, sections of a 65 million year old T-REX Dinosaur's thigh bone was splintered and then shaved into the Ammolite , then finished off with ultimate jewel , as single cut 8.5ct flawless diamond inlaid in its own platinum surround with 12 outer flawless diamonds.



A magnificent combination of top of the industry technology and unique thought were involved in creating this piece of History !. Material spec, 16.5 ct diamonds & 8.5ct single diamond, 57 grams of T-REX bone, 750 grams of Ammolite stone and 2000 grams of solid 24ct Gold. This item is of a limited edition of only 2 units to be made.


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12 user comments

128.7.2011 14:16

very reasonable price pff.

give me a spray paint

228.7.2011 15:47

im lookin forward of gettin an ipad, maii thiz onez da winner

328.7.2011 17:35

That's it... I'm done! Count me in as one of the bulimic. The world is going to shite from all the previous excess & this turd taco goes & makes an $8 mill iPud... I'm still interested in that cave property folks...

I gonna go barf now...

428.7.2011 18:10

Damn I feel bad for that T-Rex... What a way for your remains to be used up after billions of years >.>

528.7.2011 18:15
ps3lvanub
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Yeah... Just one question, can that gold be moulded into something else, such as a piece of sexual apparatus, because I reckon that would be more useful than the iPad. Just sayin'.

628.7.2011 23:05

In a hundred thousand years the supermonkeys will dig up the ruins of our civilization...they will find one of these, and no more investigation into the end of man will be needed.

729.7.2011 01:48

8.2 million bucks and still can't play flash video.. They should've waited until a quad-core tablet came out.

829.7.2011 05:59

Originally posted by KillerBug:
In a hundred thousand years the supermonkeys will dig up the ruins of our civilization...they will find one of these, and no more investigation into the end of man will be needed.
OMG....I'm LMAO right now.

929.7.2011 11:06

Originally posted by plutonash:
8.2 million bucks and still can't play flash video.. They should've waited until a quad-core tablet came out.
<.< I was thinking that too. Possibly the most useless thing ever.

1029.7.2011 14:21

This guy should be taken out and beat to death along with anyone that would buy it. Maybe if the supermonkeys aren't busy...

1130.7.2011 03:59

Originally posted by buxtahuda:
Originally posted by plutonash:
8.2 million bucks and still can't play flash video.. They should've waited until a quad-core tablet came out.
<.< I was thinking that too. Possibly the most useless thing ever.
What about the Nintendo Virtual Boy and the Microsoft Kin? This thing is still a better value per dollar than either of those.

1230.7.2011 08:23

Originally posted by KillerBug:
Originally posted by buxtahuda:
Originally posted by plutonash:
8.2 million bucks and still can't play flash video.. They should've waited until a quad-core tablet came out.
<.< I was thinking that too. Possibly the most useless thing ever.
What about the Nintendo Virtual Boy and the Microsoft Kin? This thing is still a better value per dollar than either of those.
Lol I remember both of those ^.^

Would like to see something solid to that, but at least those things weren't astronomically priced to begin with and then gold/t-rex/diamond-plated. And they did what they say they did, albeit what they were doing wasn't so hot; but doing something like this to an iPad (remember, a device that ~what was that ad?~ views the internet how it should be viewed or whatever, but only the 15% or so of it that it can view) is just a waste.

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