The most expensive skateboarding game ever released is Tony Hawk: RIDE (Activision, 2009), which retailed in the UK for £151 ($151), primarily due to the motion-sensing skateboard peripheral that it shipped with. In spite of the innovative approach, established brand and star billing, the game is considered a critical and commercial failure.

The PrestigeHD Supreme Rose TV, made from 28 kg (61 lb) of 18-carat rose gold inset with 72 brilliant 1-carat flawless diamonds, costs £1.5 million ($2,250,000). Only 3 units were produced of the PrestigeHD Supreme Rose TV.

The Hubble Space Telescope (HST), launched on 25 April 1990, cost $2.1-billion (£1.4-billion).

The K2 Black Panther main battle tank is a completely new tank produced in South Korea. It will enter production in 2009 and, although originally some 680 were planned for the ROK army, currently the number has been reduced to 390. According to the Agency for Defence Development, the cost of a single tank is around 8,300,000 Korean won or approximately US$8.5 million (£5.96 million) making it the most expensive tank to date. It has a three-man crew, a 1,500 hp engine that enables the Continue reading →

The most expensive sushi costs 91,800 Phillipino Pesos (£1,313.88, $1,978.15) for five pieces of nigiri garnished with diamonds and wrapped in 24-karat gold leaf produced by chef Angelito Araneta Jr. (Phillipines) http://pursuitist.com/epicurean/the-most-expensive-sushi-in-the-world/

The most expensive tourist trip is a visit to the International Space Station. As of 2009, this cost between $20–35 million. Since 2001 seven individuals, including Hungarian-born US-software billionaire Charles Simonyi (USA) and Guy Laliberte, the founder of Cirque du Soleil, have paid a fee reported to be at least $20 million for trips to the International Space Station brokered by the American company Space Adventures. The exact fee they paid has not been made public. Charles Simonyi departed on 26 March 2009 and returned Continue reading →

Women of the both the Tiv and Nuba peoples of Nigeria in west Africa endure extreme scarification rituals in order to undergo a rite of passage, as in the case of the Nua, or to accentuate their beauty. The scars are made using a knife or more traditionally stone or shards of glass or coconut shell ­ and the deep wounds rubbed with toxic plant juices to create swollen welts or “keloids”. Scarification ­or cicatrization of the torso begins in young Nua females at the Continue reading →

The virtual world where players are most likely to make a real-world profit is Second Life. In February 2009, 64,000 users made a profit in the virtual world. Over half made less than $10 (£5.90), but 233 earned more than $5,000 (£2,940). Second Life allows its users to build virtual objects and add simple functionality to enable the creation of clothing, household items and so on. Users retain copyright for any content they create, which they can then sell on to others. Featured in Guinness Continue reading →

On 1 February 2003, the space shuttle Columbia was lost with all seven crew during re-entry into Earth´s atmosphere after a successful 15-day mission in orbit. The resulting investigation determined that a piece of insulating foam from the external fuel tank had impacted the leading edge of a wing during launch. This made a hole that allowed heat to build up during re-entry, causing the left wing of the orbiter to break apart, and the rest of the spacecraft to disintegrate. The crew were Rick Continue reading →

The most Champions League tournaments won by an individual captain is two by two players, Paolo Maldini (Italy) for AC Milan (Italy) in 2003 and 2007, and Carlos Puyol (Spain) for FC Barcelona (Spain) in 2006 and 2009.