$50,000 seriously?
Just get a camper...

Some rich hedge fund manager is going to buy it for their little bastards.

God I hate those rich little bastards!

$50K is a bit much to sleep in a tree's nutsack if you ask me. And if you can drop 50 grand for this without a second thought, chances are you're not the camping type (or the intelligent type).

I'm going to start running around campgrounds carrying scissors.

Hope the tree falls on those rich little bastards!

50K! wtf are you thinking?

a hard wood floor is NOT required in a tent, that could be the problem here (imho, the hardwoods should be left intact...mmmm perhaps for hanging the thing upon)

seems like a decent design concept... hmm a "normal" "high-end" tent is what $200-300 (i said high end)? and Ok, this calls for a premium, so uh.. $500? even $600 might be "reasonable" in this day and age.

Hey maybe the intern just put the decimal point in the wrong place, eh?

can anyone help me out with remembering another tent similar to this that was more like $500?

Yay - giant speedbag for bears! Bonus: rich, chewy little bastard filling!

I welcome converting the spawn of the upper 1/10th of 1% to bear scat.

Exactly what part of this, we can see in the photo, is slathered in Swarovsky crystals then?

Oh, maybe the tree is INCLUDED!

[www.drewapenaar.nl]
link the the artist who hand makes each one.
there are some pics of the interior somewhere in that mess...

Hell, my first house was $50,000 10 years ago and it had 740 sq ft. of hardwood floors... plus a bunch of other stuff. I had to buy the bed separately though. Maybe that is the difference.

Hardwood floors? 2 person bed? Sounds heavy. For $50,000, they better provide the air lift that gets this to my campsite.

...wood

Does it require a crane to set up?

- I prefer my floor (hardwood or not) to be somewhere near level. Sleeping in this tent would cause you to roll out of that two person bed & sleep in a pile in the corner.

For 50 grand I would rather build a small log cabin

My wife refers to Neiman Marcus as "Needless Markups"

Buy an old VW bus, get a bed custom installed into it, and spend the rest of your money on a family of sherpas.

This thing would blow around in the wind, probably weighs close to 1000 lbs and probably won't stay level.

@MacBastard: I would go with "Bear Pinata".
It would also be fun during a forest fire.

Soo... how large is this sucker folded up?

Makes more sense if you look at it here. The "Hardwood" is a joke (plywood floor), but it's a small outbuilding, not a CAMPING tent. Still freaking expensive.
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@Lorne: I thought pinata too, but it looks just like the speedbag at the gym.

I was just too in love with the image of the bears with their paws up like boxers, rotating their paws around each other as the tent bounces off in a rythmic "bappity bappity bappity" until the horrible, horrible rich children tumble out into their waiting jaws.

Wow and I thought paying nearly a grand for a Bibler tent was ludicrous. This is by far the best example of money not equaling brains I have seen all day long.

@ANoel: The three, the camping area, the car to tow everything, the woman, even the bugs.

not exactly what i remember, but here it is...
[www.floatingbed.com] -$900

also, this hardwood floor one is 440 lbs in case anyone is wondering.

just imagine sleeping on the bed wake up forgeting your in the air slip slide down out of the tent and face first on the ground

in what way is a 9' circle of hardwood portable enough to be considered a 'tent?'

Is there a floor plan?

who would buy that tent? if the rich people would buy it. they are really dumbass but rich people are supposed to be smart right?
*sip coffee drift away*

This is a gift all those trust fund kids need to buy their parents. "Hey mom and/or dad, don't worry about the thunderstorm coming this weekend. You'll be completely safe in this tent; just make sure you use the tallest tree in the forest!"

@Amiash: "rich people are supposed to be smart right" . . . so are you calling Paris Hilton smart?

I think they should spray the tent fabric with something extremely attractive to bears. That way, we solve two problems...getting rid of the people that can actually afford one of these pieces of (dreck), AND getting rid of the (dreck) itself.
After all...they'll only buy ONE.

I, for one, welcome our future, tent-like overlords....

Cool tent... but the price! How on earth do they feel justified asking for that much? What goes into this thing that warrants the price tag? I just don't get it, rich or not...

perfect for a hiking trip.

Just the right sized speed bag for Paul Bunyan.

@banmojo: lol

@jeepingeek: And considering you're reading Gizmodo, that's saying something.

You really don't think the Swarovski toilet beats this out?

Brings back those wonderful memories of a notable comment, involving the scrotum of an oak.

How many tree-testicle products can their possibly be? Isn't this the 3rd or 4th different one this year?

They all still remind me of those membrane-organ-sucking guys from Beastmaster, which just makes it worse.

Please designers, no more tree-testicles!

@92BuickLeSabre: links please, i am having a hard time finding them. believe it or not, the reasonably priced one is a good idea, and i may buy one. (not the one i linked to above, too much, not portable)

@EMoShunz: Really? I'm being asked for links to more tree-testicles?

Fine! Fine! (Damn you Tree Testicles!)

There was the "survival cocoon" for sure. I guess this one was more of a car testicle. And really, these just kind of looked like testicles. And then there was this guy, who I guess was just a camping testicle all by himself.

Okay, so I could only find one other tree-testicle.

It must have just burned itself into my mind so much that it felt like three or four testicles all up in my face...wait...let me rephrase that.

The only use I can see for this would be a show I saw on scientists going through wetlands for days at a time and they had to sleep in hammocks because they were always in 2-3 feet of water. Even then, 50 grand would but some nice bass boats with a shallow draft to sleep in if you made the seats removable and put down an air mattress.
Not to mention you'd have to carry it with it's hardwood floor into the wood with you to really use it...

Be careful, because last time I saw a bunch of these hanging from the trees, each one had a dwarf in it.

-and the time before that they looked like cotton candy but really had a dead guy inside that these big alien Klown things drank with silly straws.

5 words.... GREEN DOOKIE

@92BuickLeSabre: sorry man, but i actually like them (testicular or not). maybe that guy in the other comment thread was right, i am a "fag" :P
thank you!

For 50 large, tell me where you are "camping" and I'll build you a cabin with running hot water and electricity and remove it when you are done.

*Insert Jolly Green Giant nutsack joke here*