Diamonds

News

Idiot Thief Who Swallowed A $US16,000 Diamond Caught On X-Ray

11:13PM September 15, 2011 | Kyle Wagner

Let’s say you steal a $US16,000 diamond and get caught. Tough noogies I guess, but what’re you gonna do? Oh, swallow it in plain sight of the cop that’s arresting you? No no, that can’t be right. And yet! More »

Science

The Biggest Diamond In The Universe Is Actually A Planet

12:00PM August 26, 2011 | Casey Chan

Astronomers and gold diggers were excited when scientists discovered a planet littered with diamonds. That’s just OK now. Why? Because a new planet just took bling to the next level: it’s one massive diamond the size of Jupiter. More »

Geek Out

X-Ray Shows Dog Ate $US10,000 Worth Of Diamonds

11:02PM August 25, 2011 | Casey Chan

Turns out, carbon, which diamonds are made of, don’t actually show up in X-rays. They do, however, come up as blank spots and that’s how jewellery shop owner Chuck Roberts found out his dog, Honey Bun, had eaten his diamonds. More »

Geek Out

Contact Lenses Made From Diamonds And Gold Are Too Much Bling

7:00AM July 19, 2011 | Casey Chan

I’m all for spending money anyway you want to – grills, watches, boulder-sized rings, blinging chains – but come on, paying $US15,000 for diamond and gold contact lenses is stupid. When did sacrificing your eyes become cool? More »

Geek Out

New York Street Paved Not Only In Dog Poop But Also Diamonds

8:00AM June 21, 2011 | Mat Honan

Extremely dirty person Raffi Stepanian prowls the streets of New York on his hands and knees looking for gold and diamonds. Surprisingly, he finds it! $US819 worth in less than a week. More »

News

Swallow A Stolen Diamond And They’ll Do A Colonoscopy On You

8:20AM May 12, 2011 | Casey Chan

What would you do if you were caught stealing a diamond? Drop it? Hide it? Swallow it? That’s what this diamond thief did. And when he got caught, the police waited for the diamond to come out, em, naturally. But it wasn’t coming out! More »

Gadgets

Lipstick, Meet Pig: The $US18,000 Diamond-Encrusted iPod Nano Watch Now Exists

3:20AM April 3, 2011 | Jack Loftus

So anyway, this is a real thing. It’s an $US18,000 diamond-encrusted wristband that transforms your comparatively cheap iPod nano into a wristwatch and you into a pretentious money-wasting douchebag. Magic! More »

Science

Diamond-Busting, Super-Hard Graphite Squeezed Toward Reality

2:00AM November 8, 2010 | Jack Loftus

Are the diamond’s days as an indestructible substance numbered? Possibly. At about 170,000 atmospheres, scientists managed to use super-hard graphite to crack one in 2003, but the exact reason why was somewhat of a mystery. Now maybe it’s not. More »

Don’t You Dare Laugh At This Guy’s $US50,000 iPod

1:40PM July 22, 2010 | Rosa Golijan

If you dare chuckle about the $US50,000 diamond iPod hanging from pro boxer Floyd Mayweather’s neck, please be sure he doesn’t hear you. Because otherwise you may never be able to giggle again. More »

Science

Chinese Scientists Claim Diamond Bullet Could Achieve Nuclear Fusion

2:00PM July 8, 2010 | Kyle VanHemert

Let’s be honest: Science, with all of its rigorous procedure and stifling detail, can sometimes be a bore. This wacky new study that says we could achieve cold fusion with an ultra fast diamond bullet: not boring at all! More »