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As if the high-end features weren't enough, a British designer has encrusted an iPad 2 with diamonds, gold and shards of real dinosaur bone. This Gold History Edition phone can be yours for a whopping...

Updated on: Jul 30, 2011, 14:08:31 IST
IANS | By , Moscow
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Stuart Hughes, British designer of exclusive gadgets, encrusted an iPad 2 with diamonds, gold and shards of real dinosaur bone and has put it up for sale on his website for five million pounds ($8 million).

iPad-2-Gold-History-Edition
iPad-2-Gold-History-Edition

The gadget's rear section features two kilograms of 24-carat gold and the front frame is made from Ammolite, the oldest rock in the world (over 75 million years old).

To make the gadget even more individual, sections of a 65-million-year-old T-Rex dinosaur thigh bone were splintered and shaved into the Ammolite.

The Apple logo is encrusted with 53 flawless diamonds and a single 8.5-carat diamond decorates the "home" button.

The gadget dubbed the "Gold History Edition" is of a limited edition of only two units to be made.

Hughes, and his wife Katherine, create and sell exclusive iPhones, laptops, plasma TVs and other gadgets with mind-blowing price tags.

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