Gold has been a valuable and highly sought-after
precious metal for coinage, jewelry, and other arts since long before
the beginning of recorded history. Due to demand of gold prices of gold
is going higher day by day. In this article, there are some things which
are common but the use of gold has made them precious.
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India Unveils $4.6m Gold-Encrusted Nano car
Three years after launching what it called the world’s cheapest car,
Indian manufacturer Tata has unveiled a gold and jewel-encrusted Nano in
Mumbai as a tribute to 5,000 years of Indian craftsmanship. Thirty
craftsmen using traditional skills were involved in the creation of the
bejewelled vehicle, using 80kg of 22 carat gold and 15kg of silver, and
is inlaid with 10,000 semi-precious stones and gems.
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18-Carat Gold Cell Phone
It's one of the world's most expensive cell phones--and it can't
even download your email. Then again, you can't exactly expect an
18-carat gold mobile device to be cheap. Designed by a the Copenhagen
firm Aesir, the Æ+Y phone costs a whopping €42,000.00 (about $60,000),
and doesn't even boast technological innovations like mobile Internet
access or email. Instead its most advanced features include speed dial,
a built-in calculator, and bluetooth connectivity. However, the phone's
designer claims to have intentionally excluded some more advanced
features.
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Golden Bike
This crystal and gold bike was created by a company named Aurumania,
whose self-proclaimed purpose is to conceive of and design items with
the extravagant use of gold, thereby turning familiar objects into
collectible art. In this case, a $102,418.60 piece of art. Each bike is
hand built, plated with 24 carat gold and hand-adorned with more than
600 Swarovski crystals.
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Golden Toilet
World's priciest toilet is located in Hong Kong. Built in 2001, the
entire washroom required 380 kg of pure gold and 6,200 gemstones. Even
the fixtures are made of gold. It costed HK $38 million and is now worth
HK $80 million.
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Golden Keyboard
It is insanely strange taste to cover a keyboard with a pure gold, but
that's exactly what Wazakura Koubou has made. While it might look
expensive, you can actually get one for only 28.875 Yen, about US$271.
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