At the São Paulo auto show this week, Bugatti unveiled a one-off version of its Veyron Grand Sport Vitesse called the Gris Rafale, carrying a price of 1.9 million euros, or $2.5 million.
The announcement that Nissan has built a one-off version of the Juke Nismo crossover to celebrate opening of "The Dark Knight Rises" movie on Blu-Ray and DVD.
The BBC, meanwhile, has commissioned a series of playwright Michael Wynne's Birkenhead family sitcom Lapland, after its successful one-off version screened last Christmas; and a new sketch show from circuit veterans The Ginge, the Geordie and the Geek.
Will it allow the country-continent, home to nearly 25 million people, to compel Apple to create a one-off version of its operating system to get into, say, a terrorist's phone?
Plus, Adobe is under pressure from shareholders to move away from selling one-off versions of the Creative Suite and Photoshop and towards more of a software-as-a-service model.
Nobody really thought Google could pull this one off and the first version were definitely still crude.
"This isn't a tried and tested formula, it's an experiment," announced Marcus Mumford in the closing moments of this inaugural and hopefully not one-off UK version of Mumford & Sons Stopoverr festival, an event purposely held in out of the way locations which has already been successfully deployed in sites across America.
Which is why the company began a "Court Runner" service, which, for a small fee, directs a real-live court runner to go to the local courthouse to pull actual hardcopies of the records and to create a one-off digital version.
From the video (below) the interface also looks a lot like a digital reimagining of the Architect's office from The Matrix, and, given the virtually endless amount of content to choose form, a one-off concept version of Borges' Library of Babel.
The company did produce a one-off white and gold version of the garment, however; it sold at auction for £1,300, with the proceeds going to Children in Need.
The main theatre and the smaller stage, the Swan, will open to the public from 24 November for visits and one-off events including a version of Shakespeare's sonnets by the director Peter Brook, who created some of his most celebrated productions for the RSC between 1950 and 1970.
