It seems the born rich attitude of the Gen X needs to be polished with the evolving treasures equipping the minds of the elite class. There have been talks about luxurious products viz.painting worth $2.1 million, Charlie Chaplin’s elite camera, Crystal-made museum, most expensive house in US, World’s most-expensive hotel , even lavish dog house that invited eyeballs.

But a lad called Amit Malhotra, resident of Ludhiana in India seems to have a big heart that he borrowed money to meet his luxurious needs. Yes, this crazy guy has spent Rs1.5 million ($32,000) for getting a mobile number (9780000000).

True, the hunt for getting an exotic number that even enters into deaf ears is years old but the big deal about this number is it has become most-expensive mobile number ever sold in India. I hope you are well-inytroduced with the world’s most expensive mobile number “666 6666″ that generated the sales of $2.7 million in Qatar.

Amit chased this opportunity at the auction scheduled by Hutch. It wasn’t an easy race for the owner of the most-expensive mobile number in India but his mania for the luring number invited the monetary support from his friends, relatives, acquaintances and incumbents.

Via Born Rich

If you want to celebrate the birth ceremony of your one-year young kid in an elite manner, then only read further; otherwise free feel to move to my previous post or wait for next one.

This 18th century wooden cradle clad with gold plates and embedded with a total of about 2,000 gems of diamond, ruby, emerald is displayed at the “Treasures of the Topkapi Palace and the Magnificent Ottoman Dynasty” exhibition in Tokyo.

Besides this, around 140 treasures from the residence of the Ottoman Empire, the precursor to the Republic of Turkey, including the cradle are exhibited.

The occasion is to celebrate the birth of Prince Hisahito on 6 September 2006 to Princess Kiko, the wife of Japanese Emperor Akihito’s second son Prince Akishino.

These riches will be on for demonstration from 1 August to 24 September.

U.S collector Richard Baron Cohen has scheduled ‘Raffinesse & Eleganz’, an exhibition in Berlin, displaying more than 150 pieces hand painted from 303 photographs. What made this exhibition special is the fact that those photographs were captured by the cameraman on his year-long tour to picture hippos in 101 zoos in 33 countries.

The exhibition shows ceramic of the early 19th century collected by Cohen and is open for the public from July 28 until November 4 in the German capital.

The pot above is the porcelain of the so-called ‘Hippopotamus Service’, one of the products to be displayed at the exhibition with Cohen standing next to it.

If a really hot and steamy winter season is what you are eyeing at…not just in terms of temperature but style quotient too…then this stylish radiator called the Bisque Zanzibar ZTR is a sure shot pick.

Christened after the birth place of Freddie Mercury, the radiator has an equally hot bod in steel that’s sure to add some zing into your room. Available in 2 versions the 1250mm or 1790mm it is smart enough to soar the temperatures really high!

What next? The price of coure and that has to be big…when the stuff is as chic as this and the tag that Bisque Zanzibar has is £2000…now that’s really something!

You must have heard of numerous Kitty dolls in the market but I am sure this Hello Kitty Selection, event happening at the Mitsukoshi department store in Tokyo is news for you.

Ready to add-on to the list of expensive toys of your kids, this expensive Hello Kitty doll, made of 62,000 Swarovski crystal glasses, is modeled after Japanese traditional “Fortune-Inviting-Cat” figure. Around 800 unique Hello Kitty products are on sale.

To give you the feel of the dolls and other exciting products, just jump down:

The doll on left is retailed at 8 million yen ($66,115) and on right will cost you1, 575,000 yen ($13,016).

At bottom are cosmetics boxes sold at 367,500 yen (US$3,037) each.

If you have done your nails, hair and are wondering what next? Nourish your skin. Try Gold facial with a gold feel and look. Yes, I personally tried it during the Bio Taiwan Exhibition in Taipei, Taiwan on 26 July 2007.

Take a look at the model displaying the mask that is retailed at $105.

This displayed piece-of-art is a painting by Aboriginal artist Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri titled “Warlugulong 1977″.

Going against the various rumors of its prospective price between $1.5 million -$1.8 million, the dot painting “Warlugulong 1977″ by the late Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri, fetched a record price of $2.1 million at auction in Melbourne.

This cost of the painting is a clear reflection of the whopping interest of the people in Aboriginal art as the price is more than double the previous record of $1.056 million set in May by Emily Kame Kngwarreye’s “Earth’s Creation”.

Who paid the world record price for “Warlugulong 1977″?

The mystery got unveiled when the National Gallery of Australia proudly handpicked this piece.
Now take a look at the oher pieces of art as well.

With the upcoming new gadgets or updated version of the old models, one cannot overshadow the beauty of age-old and conventional. To exemplify this, today we have a Bell & Howell model 2709 motion picture camera available for the auction on 25 July 2007.

Mind you, this is not an ordinary camera as it has an established reputation of personal movie camera used for Charlie Chaplin for the screening of his numerous classic films.

All set to invite all eyeballs, Samantha Ryan, Christie’s saleroom assistant poses with the camera. The expected amount generated out of its sales is $140,000 - $180,000.

So, are you planning to buy one? Well, if you cannot afford to grab it then at least respect this camera by visiting the Christie’s auction hall for window-shopping only.

Sony lately unveiled its surround sound chair-Za at the design exhibition scheduled in Tokyo.

The chair is escalated with two huge speakers on its head. The leather made couch offers an elite experience to its customers by providing them with the private theater ambience for music, games and movies.

This technology-driven piece called PHOTON, a solar panel system is designed for those who love technology to the extent that now they desire to wear technology.

The great mind behind this portable device is of architect Kari Sivonen. The manufacturing of the product is done by Clothing+, an established Finnish company having a maintained portfolio in delivering rational clothing.

But this invention has hit the market a bit late for the mountaineers who are already there and are regretting the technology drawbacks that doesn’t allow them to charge there dead batteries of phone and camera.

PHOTON is displayed at the SAUMA, a travelers’ exhibition by the Finnish Cultural Institute in New York. A single stroll at the exhibition will put you across numerous (more than 20) innovative and modern designs from Finland.

Venue: Los Angeles Architecture and Design Museum
Date: Till 28 August, 2007

From LA, the exhibition will move to Helsinki and Paris in 2008.