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22 Jun
Zafirro Iridium's tool to bleed oil tycoons of boatloads of cash

There are so many ingenious ways of bilking the obscenely rich of their money, you have to give props anytime someone has the savvy — and straight up balls — to create something so outlandishly expensive that you just want to give one of those dramatic, end-of-movie climactic speech slow claps. You could, I don’t […]


Joining the ranks of the award-winning, travel retail-only Macallan 1824 Collection is the Macallan Limited Edition MMXI. The MMXI single malt whisky is bottled at 48.2% ABV and has been aged in sherry oak casks. Some of the casks were “first fill”, creating fruity characteristics with hints of toffee apple, nutmeg, caramelized ginger and spice […]


10 Jun
Just $3,000 to lock down the Kardashian Lumberjack look

If you’re totally into the urban lumberjack look, but want to keep your steez super posh, then you may want to look into Givenchy’s Rabbit Fur Cap. Not only is it constructed of rabbit fur, but it includes flop-ears that you can let drop if the air conditioning at the martini bar gets turned on […]


26 May
The H4D-200MS is here to make every other camera obsolete

Revered Copenhagen camera makers Hasselblad have just dropped the newest bomb in their photographic artillery — the H4D-200MS. While the H4D-200MS boasts a whopping 200 megapixel capability, the camera actually uses a 50 megapixel sensor and shoots 6 images simultaneously, which it then stitches together in-camera (a piezoelectric motor slightly moves the sensor while the […]


13 May
8500 diamonds, 300 rubies and two bars of pure white gold

No, that is no exaggeration — the UK’s self-appointed and vapidly named Luxury Beverage Company is crafting a bottle of single malt scotch that will run you a cool $6,200,000. Not that the Isabella Original whisky is that particularly good or extravagant, it’s just that Luxury Beverage Company have encrusted the fine English Crystal decanter […]


11 May
Limited edition 18k gold sunglasses handmade in Japan

It takes a lot to make headlines with a new pair of Aviators, one of the most iconic frame shapes in the history of eyewear. So how does Dior Homme manage to do it? Easily, just handcraft your very own pair out of solid 18k gold, and only offer these extremely limited edition glasses to […]


9 May
Give thieves even more reason to steal your packages

Do you want to get your friends incredibly stoked, only to pull the rug out from under them to absolutely guarantee fists clenched at the sky? Give your next shipment to them a crappy surprise with Financial Padding — a package cushioning alternative to foam peanuts that look just like crumpled up paper banknotes. Besides being […]


Welcome to the inaugural edition of Checking In, the latest series in Lost In A Supermarket’s quest to cover all things we hold most dear. In this hotel review series sure we’d be tempted to just cover the most expensive or exclusive hotels in the world (who wouldn’t), but that will not be our sole […]