The Swiss company Algordanza will take the cremations of your loved ones and make them into diamonds. The company filters carbon out of cremains and creates a diamond with the extracted material. According to their website, the starting cost is approximately $4,461 USD. (Source)
CONDENSE THE REMAINS OF YOUR BELOVED DEAD INTO THE NECRO DIAMOND FOR EASY SUMMONING ON THE GO. NEVER BE WITHOUT YOUR PROTECTIVE ANCESTOR SPIRITS EVER AGAIN. THE NECRO DIAMOND. A LIVING HUMAN’S BEST FRIEND.
Programmable LED fans are the latest thing in cosplay technology. The price of admission is pretty steep though. At $400 per fan, it will cost a pretty penny to become a proper wizard.
If you are like Wong and believe attachment to the material is detachment from the spiritual, buying these would contradict that philosophy. A cosplaying conundrum to be sure. Keep saving up those rupees I guess.
What intrigues me about this is the potential for small-budget films.
Like, that produces, on what I assume is at best a prosumer camera, a believably impressive effect, and the only drawback is the base being visible. I have to imagine a little compositing to hide the bases until the energy fields go up would be cheaper than CGing the effect for every shot.