Friday, November 7, 2008

The Coolest Diamond-Encrusted Gadgets Of All Time



Some list posts range over abstractions: best phones, coolest laptops, mean-spirited gifts. Not this one.


This concerns a single, precise class of item. Everything here is a newdget with diamonds glued on it. Not gold. Not wood. Not the crushed glass sold to idiots as "Swarovski crystals." Diamonds.
Yes, you know. A Girls Best Friend!



Vertu Signature Black & White Diamonds
"Featuring" 644 white diamonds and 428 black diamonds for a grand total of 1,072 diamonds, this Vertu costs something north of $80,000.

The World's Most Expensive Computer Mouse
The most remarkable thing about the $24,180 "scattered diamond" is its diamond design. But no, this one has a "constellation" of 59 diamonds sprinkled to "bring color into office life and make working truly fun!" They'll also arrange the rocks into a monograph if you want to personalize.



24kt Gold and Diamonds Macbook Pro
If it appears at first blush that our "only diamonds" rule has been broken, fear not. It is not Computer Choppers' MacBook Pro that we are interested in here, but something that sits upon it. Yes, the Apple logo.



Diamond USB Cross Thumbdrive
There is no gadget more banal or commonplace than the USB thumbdrive. There's also no shortage of examples dunked in superglue and battered with carbon. Here are a few examples glittered with bling!




Bejeweled Gameboy
Swiss Supply is a true believer in diamondplatingg made only the most cursory effort to integrate diamonds into its well known toy: Nintendo's original Gameboy.
The creators of the $25k Gameboy dressed in jewels for hours of play.


Diamond MP3 Player For Dogs
That the JooZoo MP3 player is for those animal lovers out there. JooZoo encourages physical movement or increases blood flow rate by sound wave stimulation. Rock on puppy!


iPod Shuffle Plus Diamonds
Apple's most popular item gets a $40,000 iPod named iDiamond.

The Million-Dollar Cellphone
Looking more like a medieval relic than a phone, the so-called "million dollar cellphone," by Goldvish.



High Concept Card
If you think the diamond-studding enterprise couldn't be executed with less subtlety than a million-dollar telephone, you'd be wrong. Behold GK Power Bank's diamond-studded credit card.


Nokia N95
Nokia's N95 is not at all bad. It is excellent. Encrusted in a thick melee of cultured diamonds and has a $24,000 price tag.