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Most expensive computer mouse

most expensive mouse
This is currently the world’s most expensive computer mouse - made with 18-karat white gold encrusted with 59 brilliant-cut diamonds.

Listed price is EURO18,600.00 or roughly around RM88,600.00. It is produced by pat-says-now.com, Switzerland’s first manufacturer of individual computer mice located in Zurich City.

But you can’t have just the mouse as the expensive item, you need the whole computer set to be damn expensive as well. Check out the other extravagant technology products that would come together nicely with this mouse, as reviewed by PC World.

Link : Diamond-flower Mouse

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Origin of slang words

I’m sure you’ve used the words like idiot, moron or even cool but have you ever thought of the origin of these words? Listverse has lay down “10 Slang Words and Phrases Explained”.

Here’s a short summary on the word “idiot“.

Idiot originally comes from the Greek word Idiotes which was used to refer to a person who was a private individual - or more specifically, one who was so preoccupied with their own personal life that they would not take part in the democratic process. In the biblical sense, the word referred to an uneducated person. By the fourteenth century, it could also refer to a clown, a layman (non-religious), or an individual. Later, however, the Oxford English Dictionary gave it the following definition which has stuck: “A person so deficient in mental or intellectual faculty as to be incapable of ordinary acts of reasoning or rational conduct”. When IQ tests arrived, a person scoring less than 20 was regarded to have earned the “idiot’s score”.

Click here to read the other 9 slang words explained.

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