Nov 5 2007Expensive Corkscrew Is Very Unimpressive
The Sveid corkscrew "is made out of aviation-grade titanium and features an 18-carat gold finger-hold. It's a dual action opener, with a wind-around motion to remove the cork's covering and then your standard drill-down, pull-up movement to snag the cork free." Nothing special here minus some titanium and gold. What will the bastard set you back you ask? Try $70,000! Holy shit, you say? Holy shit, I reply. If you have the money and are thinking about getting one please fire me off an email with your home address so I can come rob you blind. You deserve it.
Flashy Sveid corkscrew is gold, titanium, and costs more than your wine cellar [scifiblog]
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Reader Comments
1. andy - November 5, 2007 10:12 AM
$70,000 for a bottle opener. Why don't you just spend it on some hard core gold teeth. Great openers better looking mouth everyone's a winner
2. boredom - November 5, 2007 11:00 AM
Hey if you recieve any emails about people that bought this let me know so I can rob them with you and then stick around to kick the shit out of them for doing so. But let's donate half neah a 1/4 of the money we steal to the homeless so that way we're being noble in our quest
3. blpressure - November 5, 2007 1:11 PM
@2 I think you may be the real Robin Hood reincarnated. You should go to a regression hypnotist and check it out.
4. boredom - November 5, 2007 1:40 PM
@3 if I knew what a regression hypnotist was I would considering spending some of my soon to be newly "aquired" money on seeing one.
5. confizzled - November 5, 2007 2:08 PM
Why oh why, do people and companies bother to create such worthless things with rediculious prices? I'm continually baffled by the overwhelming amount of things featured on this site, which are so over priced it makes no sense as to why anybody would think "gee u kno what i need, a $70,000 bottle opener made out of gold and titanium! F*ck this $3 one i got from wal-mart! does the same exact thing, but lacks class! Do u realize what kinda car u could buy with $70,000? i think i'd rather drive around in my flashy car openin bottles of cris with my wal-mart opener tyvm...
6. confizzled - November 5, 2007 2:12 PM
Another case in point...
http://www.geekologie.com/2007/10/smash_the_hell_out_of_a_6020_c.php
wtf man! imma pay $6k+ for a piece of metal which i can beat the crap out of, just so i have a unusable piece of metal which i can tell people i hate to sit on and have them get cut up 2 pieces...
i think too many people are doing hardcore drugs these days, that or have waaaaaaaaaay 2 much money on their hands, which i dont get how is even possible these days with the bush economy.
7. MsApplebum - November 6, 2007 11:27 AM
too funny @ #1.
8. guate6 - November 6, 2007 1:33 PM
For seventy grand, that thing should be made of platinum, not titanium...my glasses are made of titanium and I bet that if I tried really hard, I could open a bottle with them. Pshaw.