Times have changed from when people were considered rich if they had a million dollars to their name. Nowadays, while you’d still be considered reasonably well off, you certainly couldn’t afford everything your heart desires if all you had in the bank was 1 million dollars.

1. If for some peculiar reason you wanted to get your hands on one of those floating magnetic beds designed by Dutch architect Janjaap Ruijssenaars, you would need to come up with another .2 million to put with your 1 million.

The bed hovers 40cm from the floor via powerful magnets and will retail once life-sized versions go into production for $1.2 million. Obviously, if all you had to your name was 1 million dollars, you wouldn’t want to drop all the way to the bottom of the financial status ladder just to own a high tech bed.

2. How about the Goldvish million dollar cellphone? That too would be out of your budget if all you had in the bank was 1 million dollars. But seriously, does a cellphone adorned with platinum, gold and diamond accents work better? Why does someone need to spend $1,278,000 on a cell phone? Does anyone really care that you’re talking with a diamond encrusted phone at your ear. You might as well replace your ear itself with an ear made of diamonds. It would make more sense.

3. Factoring in taxes and other miscellaneous fees, a million dollars couldn’t buy you the MacDaddy million dollar fishing lure. But it’s doubtful that fish taste better that’s caught using a fishing lure "crafted in just over 3 pounds of glimmering gold and platinum, then encrusted with 100 carats of diamonds and rubies," so you probably shouldn’t worry too much about not being able to afford to fish with a million-dollar lure that looks like a pimp’s walking stick. Do they really intend that product to be used for fishing or is it just for putting in a case and admiring on days you feel like reflecting on how great it is to be so rich you can afford to pay more for a fishing rod than your 25 employees make in a year combined?

4. The million dollar laptop by Luvaglio would also propel you to the bottom of the financial status ladder were you to trade your 1 million dollars for the pleasure of owning a laptop with a "very rare colored diamond piece of jewellery" serving as the power button, and other scattered, put purposeful, bits of diamond here and there. Said Rohan Sinclair Luvaglio about the million dollar laptop:

“I didn’t want us to simply re-house a laptop into a diamond studded casing, or diamond encrust the entire thing simply to make it expensive. We’ve put thought in from the keyboard down to the power charger. There is an integrated screen cleaning device and a very rare colored diamond piece of jewelery that doubles up as the power button when placed into the laptop and also acts as security identification. We have used diamonds elsewhere but have given them purpose.”

Hard to imagine who would need a laptop that costs a million dollars….

5. Million Dollar Coconut Brandy - Mendis, a company founded by Mr. W. M Mendis, is in the business of creating fine brandy. The million dollar cocunut brandy is described on the Mendis website as:

… the world’s first clear ultra-premium brandy produced from coconut and matured for a minimum of two years.

MENDIS Coconut Brandy V.S. has subtle tones of coconut, vanilla and chocolate, with a velvety sweet texture. The product’s complexity can be experienced when consumed neat or on the rocks, though it also offers limitless options for mixing as a clear spirit.

Seems to make sense to spend your last million on a million-dollar bottle of brandy only if your intention is to commit suicide by drinking the whole bottle in one sitting.

Seems Alex Tew started up another million dollar home page site last December. This new site is called Pixelotto and the concept is the same as the million dollar homepage with a few differences. For one thing, the charge per pixel is $2.00 instead of $1.00, and pixelotto.com comes with a built-in measure for building up a fat member database and getting people to click on the advertiser’s ads. That measure is a $1,000,000 prize giveaway.

As Tew has written on the pixelotto site, all you have to do to secure a chance at winning the million dollar prize is register for free and start clicking ads.

With 10 clicks per day, the more days you play, the more chances you will have. You will be accumulating entries from your clicks right up until the draw takes place.

What? You wanted a guaranteed million? Well, sorry but the only guaranteed winner in this equation is Mr. Alex Tew.

While some people believe that lightening doesn’t strike twice in the same place and Alex Tew will not succeed at selling another million pixels, this time for $2 million, and while it doesn’t appear that sales of pixels on pixelotto are going as fast as on the original million dollar home page, Alex Tew at least has a proven record of success going for him. Advertisers are more likely to trust his sites than they would the many clones that have sprouted on the Internet since the million dollar home page success became headline news.

By the way, if you’re an advertiser, it should be clarified that while the price per pixel is $2.00, there is a minimum 100 pixel purchase; and it looks as if what you’re getting for your $200 is a tiny little square that will be practically invisible once the entire page is filled. The graphic below shows some possible ad sizes and what they would cost you.