12:15 PM -- Yes, someone really did spend $829 just so that he could microwave a brand-new, top-of-the-range 3G iPad for around eight minutes.

Here's the proof:



As Chris Matyszczyk over at CNET notes: "This is no three minute cooking operation." Nope, they smoke this thing for a long time, until it catches fire and has to be put out.

The funniest thing though, for me anyway, is that when you try and grab the code to embed this video, YouTube informs you that, "this video or group may contain content that is inappropriate for some users, as flagged by YouTube's user community."

So, is smoking an iPad some form of strange new tech taboo? Not really -- it is definitely pretty silly and decadent, one way or another, though. Oh, and I'm absolutely certain that they invalidated the warranty.

— Dan Jones, Site Editor, Light Reading Mobile