In Pictures: 15 amazing tech feats and world records

Not to be outdone by athletes at this summer’s Olympic games, techies have been setting some world records of their own of late.

This is no phone to throw away: Goldstricker, a U.K. company that fashions high-tech gadgets and turns them into expensive commodities, claims to have the most expensive phone, the iPhone 4 Diamond Rose, which has more than 500 diamonds, totaling more than 100 carots, selling for a cool $7.79 million.

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