diamonds
Gadgets

This Visa Infinite Credit Card Costs $100,000 And An Idiot’s Soul

This credit card is made of gold and diamonds. Called Visa Infinite, you have to pay $US100,000 to the Russian ‘Sberbank in order to get it. You also need to be a complete idiot. A very rich idiot, but a complete imbecile nonetheless.

19 September 2012

Science

Russia Has More Diamonds In A Crater Than The Rest Of The World Has Combined

If you had more diamonds than the rest of the world combined hiding under an asteroid crater, would you tell anyone? Russia was happy to keep that knowledge a secret until now, finally revealing plans to begin tapping into a reserve containing trillions of carats worth of diamonds.

27 May 2012

Cars

What Could Be Classier Than Completely Covering Your Car In Actual Diamonds?

Gemballa, a renown German Porche tuner, has recently announced the ultimate way to ugly up your luxury vehicle. It’s created a sparkling paint finish made from actual crushed diamonds. Not metal flakes, not glass fragments, but nature’s most precious gemstone.

11 April 2012

Computing

Someone Put A QUANTUM COMPUTER In A DIAMOND

What’s better than a quantum computer? A quantum computer in a diamond, duh. And if you’re asking why we need a quantum computer inside a diamond, well, may god have mercy on your joyless soul.

15 September 2011

News

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

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!

26 August 2011

Science

The Biggest Diamond In The Universe Is Actually A Planet

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.

25 August 2011

Geek Out

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

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.

19 July 2011

Geek Out

Contact Lenses Made From Diamonds And Gold Are Too Much Bling

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?

21 June 2011

Geek Out

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

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.

12 May 2011

News

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

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!

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