Diamond Studded Technology

Technological convergence is everywhere. Cell phone service providers offer internet as well as cable television packages. Cell phones provide internet access, multi-media platforms and navigational assistance. Videogame consoles serve as DVD players, internet browsers, as well as social networking tools. These are exciting times people. There exists, however, another trend in today’s day and age, a trend which anyone watching music videos on any of these aforementioned devices recognizes as a dominant presence in pop culture and celebrity fashion: we are in the age of “Bling.” Jewellery stores have never been busier with rappers, rockers, and actors alike strolling in, dropping giant wads of cash on the counter so they can pimp-their-lives. Well, as was mentioned we are also in the age of convergence. Technology, meet Bling. Bling, meet technology. Cell phones and laptops have become as much an accessory item as a purse or a watch. So why not blingify the heck out of them?! Check out some people who have.

Apple iPhone Princess Plus

Encrusted with 138 princess-cut diamonds and 180 brilliant-cut diamonds all set in 18-carat white gold, the Apple iPhone Princess Plus is one of the most expensive phones in the world. Austrian luxury designer and jeweller Peter Aloisson sold the iPhone to a wealthy Russian businessman for $152,000, but he also designs “cheaper” versions with “only” brilliant-cut diamond studs for just under $60,000.

iPod Shuffle

You might not want to bring this one to the gym. At $40,000, you’d hate to see this 18 karat diamond studded, white and pink gold iPod shuffle accidentally fall onto the treadmill and go flying across the room.

MacBook Pro

The fine folk over at Computer Choppers will gladly case your laptop in gold or platinum for anywhere between $1,200-$1,500. For an extra $2,400 you can have an Apple made of diamonds, or for something even more delicious, an apple made from chocolate diamonds.

Memories

What better to plug into your pimped-out laptop than a pimped-out flash drive? The 16 GB Adamant is made of gold with three diamonds, and costs more than most computers at $5,650.

If you own anything, you can be sure that someone owns the diamond-studded version of it. And you probably won’t ever cross the paths of these people, because chances are they will be typing away on their diamond laptops or chatting on their diamond iPhones while sipping diamond lattes in a Starbucks made entirely out of diamonds.

Article by James Fraser