We wrote a while back about the most expensive lighter in the world, but I got a bit bored with it and then showed you shopping penguin, which was much more entertaining.  S.T. Dupont have come out with another lighter in the shape of the Place Vendôme.  This is a limited edition Ligne 2 Prestige rose gold lighter embellished with 192 diamonds, for $47,000.  To any right-minded person, this could be instantly mistaken (or indeed correctly taken) as one of those horrible souvenirs you buy on the Champs-Élysées by a threatening immigrant street seller.  Read more after the jump.

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Cool huh?  No?  Oh come on, they are.  Sort of.  De’longhi, makers of, well, loads of stuff, including big expensive coffee machines and very effective dehumidifier units (not shouting about those so much these days eh De’Longhi?) are releasing, err, some coffee machines with stuff on.  I am concentrating, I promise, I’m just feeling extremely inarticulate today.  Not on top form.  Consider this my one throwaway Britney Spears VMA performance blog post (world: “only one?!”).  Anyway look at the picture and you’ll see what I mean.  Read more after the jump.

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Is it number 7?  I think so, anyway screw it, who’s counting.  It might be the fact that I’m in Starbucks again, it might be that the fucking woman over there has been letting her Blackberry ring and ring for the last half an hour, maybe it’s that reggae is on bloody repeat, or that I’m concerned that the last post is at serious risk of being irrelevant and unfunny, but I definitely need some kind of punch bag to unleash the fury that rages inside me like a burning hawk of resentment and borderline personality.  Sorry.  Anyway, enter the Arkeg Drink n Game.  Yea, ‘cos guys love videogames and beer, right?  Right.  So they’ve combined the two.  This is the first time I’ve looked at a product and thought it could actually induce autism.  Read more after the jump.

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Total Recall must be one of my favorite movies ever.  Mars, loads of shooting at stuff, a man with another man inside him like some kind of tumour, further extended periods of shooting, Arnie going AARRRRRRGGGGHHHHEEEEAAAAAGGGGHHH in the vacuum of space, and three tits.  An often overlooked element of the movie is Johnny Cab: the automated taxi system with a wacky robot driver.  Most of you: “What?”  For those bereft of the privilege of not seeing Total Recall, London’s Heathrow Airport has a new $41 million automatic taxi system.  Read more after the jump.

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It was going to be yet another car post, but I’m in danger of alienating non-car lovers.  So I dithered for ages, half writing about 10 posts on fairly random crud that didn’t interest me terribly, and I’ve more or less picked the best of a bad bunch.  I mean it’s a cool product, and it’s expensive, it just looks quite crappy.  Almost as if the manufacturers of Super Soaker were designing kitchen appliances.  This is the Margaritaville Explorer, and it’s a portable battery-powered Margarita maker.  Read more after the jump.

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I’m writing this week from my new office in Starbucks as I’ve just moved and broadband is taking an age to arrive.  As such I’m at the mercy of BT Openworld Wifi.  Consider this an open letter, BT: You suck. You provide a shitty service that offers extremely poor value for money. Anyway, a while back we featured a Bentley teaser that revealed absolutely nothing of their new model, the “Grand Bentley”.  Well, all has been revealed and this Grand model is in fact a new Mulsanne.  It bears a fair resemblance to a Rolls Royce Phantom, and by that I mean it’s got a fat ass.  No word yet on engine, but it’s suspected it’ll feature a familiar W12 or a VW TDI.  First impressions?  Certainly better than recent efforts, but frankly that’s no great achievement.  Pics after the jump.

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There’s a whole mess of car news afoot at the mo: new Bentley, new Bugatti, new Devon.  But it’ll wait because here’s some meaningless tattle.  The burial plot directly above Marilyn Monroe is up for sale to pay for a reported seven-figure mortgage. Flogging this prime real estate is Elsie Poncher, whose late husband is the current tenant. Once the sale is complete, Poncher will have her husband’s remains moved to another location.  Ahhhh.  She must have loved him dearly to be turfing him out of his final resting place like this.  Of course, to maintain classiness, it’s going on eBay (link) and as I write this, the bids are approaching $3 million.  Read more after the jump.

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We featured the Sorapot ages ago, and from its creator Joey Roth comes these sweet little ceramic speakers.  I’ve avoided handling the thorny world of speakers in the course of featuring stuff on Scumbag, because, well, once you’ve seen two, you’ve seen them all.  Although that probably could be said about pretty much anything to do with Scumbag features.  Other than the handsomeness of their author.  Read more after the jump.

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So, it’s pretty clear that the boffins at Sony Ericsson typed the words “female”, “expectations”, “mobile phone” and “patronise” into the supercomputer, and this is what resulted.  Ladies, prepare to be blown away.  Mirrors.  Lilac.  The words Dolce & Gabbana on the front of it.  I think that’s more or less the perfect symulchrum of a woman’s brain, right?  Read more after the jump.

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