Studded Toilet

It’s something you don’t see everyday - a toiled encrusted with swarvoski crystals.It’s creator Jemal Wright is planning to design an encrusted double slipper tub by spring of 2008.The toilet costs $75,000. Is this just me or is there really demand for such products? On the other hand if you want to show people how wealthy you are, why not put a really unnecessary and expensive thing in a place we all visit on a regular basis.

Top 5 tech releases of the week

Yamaha's new YSP-5100 Digital Sound Projector is all set to be the solution on how to reduce speaker wire tangles without having to conform to the Wi-Fi network.

Fujitsu's newly announced LifeBook UH900 has a 5.6-inch screen, 3.5G wireless connectivity, 62GB SSD and WXGA display resolution. Whats more, its even claiming to being the world's smallest multitouch-capable PC.

The most recent addition to Epson's line up, the PictureMate Show PM 300 combines the goodness of both a printer and a picture frame.

Google's latest addition - Googles Goggles. A visual search application on Android devices that allows users to search for objects using images rather than words. Now that's something we haven't heard before

Panasonic's latest releases showcased at Eco-Products 2009 themed "Lifestyle with Virtually Zero CO2 Emissions in the Entire House.", certainly topped the green charts.

The world's most expensive iPhone

British designer Stuart Hughes has created the world's most expensive iPhone. [Image: Stuart Hughes]

Priced a whopping £1.92 million (approximately Rs 14.8 crore), the iPhone 3GS Supreme took 10 months in the making. [Image: Stuart Hughes]

The front bezel houses 136 diamonds, which total to a massive 68 carats. [Image: Stuart Hughes

The Apple logo in the rear is in solid gold and has 53 diamonds amounting to 1 carat. [Image: Stuart Hughes]

The front navigation button is home to a single cut very rare diamond at 7.1 carats. [Image: Stuart Hughes]

The chest which houses this expensive handset is made from a single block of granite, in Kashmir gold with the inner lined with Nubuck top grain leather and weighs a massive 7 kg. [Image: Stuart Hughes]

The phone was commissioned by an anonymous Australian businessman. [Image: Stuart Hughes]