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Buy A Lamborghini With That Tax Refund. The Tonino Lamborghini Coffee Machine.

Ah, tax day. April 15th.
Think you're getting money back from the Government this year?

Well, you may not get enough back to buy yourself a Lamborghini (and if you do, can I please have the name of your accountant?), so how about the next best thing to get your motor running?

The Tonino Lamborghini coffee machine.

Limited to just 1,000 examples, the handbuilt machine is a caffeine-lovers symphony in Beluga black, featuring numerous stainless-steel parts, including a front panel that carries the automaker’s iconic bull logo.

Lamborghini apparently even roasts their own coffee beans, so one can see the fun one might have making up Murcielago mudslides, Espada espressos, and so on.

For you? 895 pounds (or around $1750 USD). In other words, most of us can fuggeddaboudit… but perhaps we can splurge on a pound of beans.

NOW ON SPECIAL Here with the following goodies:
Limited edition Tonino Lamborghini coffee machine
Strictly limited to 1000 machines the Tonino Lamborghini coffee machine is a work of art.

Each machine is individually engraved with its number and signed by Tonino Lamborghini himself.

Supplied with

* Free Delivery
* Free 2 year warranty

* Free set of 6 Tonino Lamborghini espresso cups and saucers

* Free 36 Tonino Lamborghini brand E.S.E. coffee pods
* Free Milk Frothing Jug
* Free CD-ROM & printed user manual

Also Includes FREE Barista Kit

The Tonino Lamborghini coffee machine is hand built from the finest materials, the finish and quality of these coffee machines is stunning. The brewing process is operated by the lever which is a reproduction of the famous Lamborghini gear stick. The metal body is finished in hi gloss Beluga black. All the controls are finished in immaculate chrome.

You can use the machine to make Espresso, cappuccino, latte, Americano and other coffee specialties. Or you can just admire the what is undoubtedly on object of beauty.

Ownership of the Tonino Lamborghini coffee machine is as exclusive as the cars themselves.
Technical Specification

* "Beluga" black bodywork
* Handcrafted stainless steel finishing
* Tonino Lamborghini logo engraved on front stainless steel panel
* Tonino Lamborghini signature and Limited Edition number engraved on stainless steel base
* High capacity brass boiler
* Heating surface for cups
* Pull-out plastic water reservoir
* Coffee dispenser with single-dose standard pod system
* Cappuccino maker / steam dispenser
* Separate warm water dispenser
* Soft touch switches with chromium finishing
* Anti-scale filter
* Electrical rating 240V-50Hz
* Power consumption 850W max
* Average power consumption in stand-by mode <50W
* Physical dimensions (HxWxD) 335 x 260 x 330 mm
* Weight 12Kg
* Water reservoir 2lt
* Noise level <65dB

Operating Data

* Operating temperature 10-40°C
* Relative humidity 30-90% non condensing

Certifications

* CE, FCC
* EMC (Dir. 89/336/EEC)
* Safety (Dir. 72/23/EEC)
* Environment (Dir. 2002/96/EC – 2002/95/EC)

Damn, I Hope He's Worth It. The 8 Million Dollar Diamond Wedding Dress.

above and above right: as worn by Korean Song Yu Ah at a fashion show in Osaka.

The world’s most expensive wedding dress, valued at 1 billion Japanese yen (Dh31.2 million, USD 8.4 million), has been created by Japanese designer Yumi Katsura. It is made from silk-satin and embellished with zari-embroidery and 1,000 pearls, a green 8.8 carat diamond emblem and a five carat white gold diamond, which is one of only two in the world.

About Designer Yumi Katsura

As a pioneer of bridal fashion, Ms. Katsura is always at the forefront of this industry. She continues to realize dreams of the wedding through worldwide bridal events. So that she has become known "Missionary of Bridal".
Her various licensed total 30 throughout Japan. The annual gross sales of her brand reach 13 billion yen.
There are 4 direct management shops under her control in Japan, and her franchises now total 70. More than 30,000 brides wear wedding dresses designed by Yumi Katsura for yearly.
She staged bridal collection show throughout Japan as well as in such foreign locations as New York, Los Angeles, Paris, London, Barcelona, Monaco, Moscow, Bucharest, Singapore, Jakarta, Bombay, New Delhi, Honolulu, Seoul, Beijing, Shanghai, Dalian, New Delhi, Manila, Kuala Lumpur, Ho-chi-minh.

Born in Tokyo, Japan. Graduated from Kyoritsu Women's University, Department of Apparel Science Studies, Faculty of Home Economics. Studied the techniques of haute couture in Paris at Les Ecoles de laChambre Syndicale de La Couture Parisienne.

Yumi Katsura's Website

Wedding attire designed by Yumi Katsura
-Ms. Nadia Comaneci and Mr. Bart Conner (Olympic Gold Medalist)
-Mr. & Mrs. Kazuyoshi Miura (Japanese soccer player)
-Mr. & Mrs. Masashi Nakayama (Japanese soccer player)
-Designed the wedding gown for Catherine Turner in the 20th Century Fox movie, "Jewel of the Nile."The special vestment for Pope John Paul II.

Open House: Architecture & Technology for Intelligent Living: An Exhibition at ACCD

Open House: Architecture and Technology for Intelligent Living,” an exhibition of visionary housing projects by 10 young architects,opens on Saturday at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California.

Standouts include Seoul Commune 2026, a cluster of towers covered in vines that provide shade and regulate interior temperature, and the Jellyfish house, which was designed to help clean toxic water on a stretch of reclaimed land on San Francisco Bay and is encased in an organic water jacket that reacts to changes in light and temperature.

Dunehouse is sheathed in skin that responds to the climatic extremes of the Nevada desert, while Open the House!, covers its occupants in temperature-responsive fabric. The show also includes vintage models of housing like Buckminster Fuller’s 1928 Dymaxion House and the Monsanto House of the Future.