For all those aspiring billionaries who want to know what 1 billion dollars in cold hard cash looks like, wonder no more.
One Billion Dollars in Cash
One Billion Dollar is stacked on 12 standard pallets, altogether 10 million 100 USD notes. One Billion Dollar is not so much about what you see but what you could do or not do with the money.
Patek Philippe - Ladies First Chronograph
Patek Philippe’s Ladies First Chronograph watch inspired by Patek Philippe’s Art Deco watch from 1930s, features a cushion-shaped case with rounded angles, warm rose gold tone, ergonomic rectangular pushers and fluted crown. The look is handsome, mature and a little retro, but most importantly, very unique.
The Patek Philippe Ladies First Chronograph, reference 7071R, features an 18-carat rose gold cushion-shaped case that measures 35mm x 39mm. Rectangular buttons activate the chronograph functions and a fluted crown winds the manufacture CH 29-535 PS hand-wound movement.
The Greeks and the Egyptians have been using malachite in their ornaments since 3000 B.C. Malachite is usually attributed to ward off negative energy. It is a stone which aids you in businesses and help you balance relationships. This sounds rather intriguing. However, The Limited edition Faberge Egg is neither from Greece nor from Egypt but from Russia.
Faberge Eggs: Moscow Kremlin Egg ca. 1906
Inspired by the architecture of the Uspenski Cathedral in the Kremlin where the Czars of Russia were crowned, the hand-carved malachite egg is topped with a diamond encrusted double-headed eagle (the symbol of Imperial Russia for more than 300 years). Open it to view a Russian bear rotating to a Swiss musical piece on the Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake. Detailed features like the turrets, towers, and staircases from Kremlin walls have been c rafted from over 1,000 pieces of mother-of-pearl, jade, onyx, lapis lazuli, coral, and red agate.
The 2005 launch of the Formula 1 Diamonds watch represented a giant challenge for TAG Heuer, which until then had primarily targeted the men’s market. Today, however, the feminine market represent 30% of TAG Heuer’s overall turnover. The ceramic additions to TAG Heuer Lady F1 line provide new opportunities in this growing sector.
TAG Heuer F1 Lady Series Watches with Ceramic Bezel
New TAG Heuer F1 Lady series watches with ceramic bezel and bracelet components will be officially unveiled at Baselworld 2010. This is TAG Heuer’s first foray into the use of ceramic in its bezels and bracelets. Ceramic is a multisensory material, soft and warm yet unalterable: like a diamond, it cannot be scratched. Strong and exquisite, it is especially appealing to women. Combined with stainless steel, it creates a sublime bracelet with butterfly clasp — perfect for the most delicate wrist.
PQ Labs showed off its G3 touchscreen technology at this year’s CeBIT by installing it into a coffee table called the iTable – the world’s thinnest Multi-Touch coffee table that will change the way you think, work and play. Being only 1/2 inch thicker than a laptop, iTable is truly a magical device raising the bar of future Multi-Touch solutions.
PQ Labs G3 Touchscreen Technology - iTable
The iTable certainly won’t get any blessings from Apple with regards to its name, but aside from that, it’s really a cool computer that can recognize up to 32 fingers on its 42-inch full HD LED screen, allowing multiple folks to interact with it at the same time. Another important feature of the iTable is that it can recognize almost any object that’s interacting with it, be it a stylus, pen, glove, bottle, or cups, and this certainly opens up more possibilities for it.
In an incredible shopping extravaganza, an 11-year-old son of Azerbaijan’s President bought nine waterfront mansions in Dubai – worth almost $44 million. The total price tag is roughly 10,000 years’ worth of salary for the average citizen of Azerbaijan.
Palm Jumeirah
The waterfront properties on the exclusive Palm Jumeirah development have been registered with Dubai’s Land Department under the name of Heydar Aliyev, the schoolboy son of President Aliyev. Besides his son, the Presidents daughters Leyla and Arzu, also appeared as the owners of Dubai properties, bringing the total value of the children’s alleged property portfolio to $75 million.
First produced in the Soviet Union in 1984, Lomo camera was designed as a quality snapper for everyday photography, complete with the iconic Minitar 1 lens for vivid, wide angle images and auto exposure for great snaps in all light. Oh yes – it was the camera that started the Lomographic Society 25 years ago.
Limited Edition Lomo LC-A+ Gold Camera
The Lomo LC-A+ has always been worth its weight in gold, but now we can say that literally. This limited edition is gilded with 24 carat gold and wrapped in the finest brown leather. Available in a limited and numbered edition of 130, the Lomo LC-A+ Gold also comes with a wooden storage case, 2 rolls of Lomography 800 film, and a hardcover copy of Lomographiere.
