SortStack #2390 — 2032-12-24
By price · Order from cheapest to most expensive.
- An Instant Pot pressure cooker $90
The Instant Pot was invented by a laid-off Canadian telecom engineer — it became so beloved that owners formed recipe communities millions strong.
- A Nintendo Switch Lite console $199
Nintendo has a history of durable hardware: the original Game Boy survived a Gulf War bombing and still works, on display at Nintendo New York.
- A top-spec Tesla Cybertruck $100K
At its 2019 unveiling, the 'unbreakable' armored glass windows cracked twice on stage when hit with a metal ball — Tesla's stock dipped the next day.
- One F-35A stealth fighter jet $82.5M
The pilot's helmet alone costs about $400,000 — it lets the pilot effectively see through the aircraft via cameras mounted around the fuselage.
- SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles, the most expensive stadium ever built $5.5B
Because it sits under the LAX flight path, the roof had to stay low — so builders dug the field about 30 meters below ground level.
- Pixar, when Disney bought it $7.4B
The 2006 deal made Steve Jobs Disney's largest individual shareholder — he had bought Pixar from George Lucas two decades earlier for about $10 million.