Stuff Made from Gold Material

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.
 

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.
 


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.
 


 

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.
 


 

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.
 


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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