Gizmodo: rich people

Olive 4 HD Music Player Brings Minor Updates, Now Costs $2,000

Dan Nosowitz — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 23:30:00 EST

The Olive 4 HD isn't too different from the Olive Opus N4 we saw back in July, but has a few nice additions and a steeper price: The 2TB version now comes in at $2,000. Youch.

Olive's music players are the kind of crazy high-end AV hardware that peasants like you and I shouldn't even be reading about, let alone contemplating. The 4 HD rips CDs to its huge 2TB hard drive, in addition to streaming from a PC, to be played through crazy high-end speakers. It's got a nice 4.3-inch touchscreen, and it's pretty nice-looking. So what's new? Well, the ports are all gold-plated, and the 4 HD adds a DAC the Opus N4 didn't have:

* Proprietary, high resolution DAC featuring Texas Instrument's 192khz/24-bit Burr-Brown PCM1792A.
* DAC may be used as an outboard DAC for any digital music source. With 24-bit/192kHz oversampling, noise and distortion are ultra low resulting in incredible purity in both high frequencies and low-level detail.

Basically it's a super simplified music player (just music, mind you, no other media) for incredibly rich old people for whom the CD is something they've just gotten comfortable with in the last six months or so. It's pretty, we'll give it that, but it seems like the kind of thing you'd see in SkyMall, not your buddy's entertainment center. It's available now for $2,000. [Olive]

Dealzmodo: Free iPod Touch With Purchase of $325,000 Ferrari

Dan Nosowitz — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 15:40:00 EDT

Ferrari's limited-edition 510-horsepower 16M convertible comes packaged with a limited-edition iPod touch of its own. The touch is loaded with Ferrari-related videos and music as well as, bizarrely, Ferrari engine noises.

The iPod touch is only a 16GB model, presumably because the convertible's name is the 16M and not because a bump to the 32GB would have broken the bank. But if you want to listen to a digital Ferrari engine in your real Ferrari on a Ferrari-branded iPod, you better jump on it quick: Only 499 are being made, and each is likely to cost $325,000. [Thanks, Noah!]

Extra note: Al & Ed's have been doing these custom installations for a few years now, and note that it's strange that Ferrari doesn't support an iPhone instead. That way you can have a GPS actually in your dash. They also claim that the price is $325k, not $225k.

LiveSpark Is an Audio Visualizer Made of Fire

Dan Nosowitz — Sat, 30 May 2009 15:30:00 EDT

The LiveSpark Fireplace features music-reactive flames, meaning, like a real-life visualizer, that the fire will jump and shrink itself based on the thumping beats it detects.

LiveSpark has both indoor and outdoor versions, and seems pretty flexible: The site shows installations of all different sizes and of different materials. We're not sure if it's actually available, as there's no order link or pricing, but if you're crazy rich, an architect, a pyromaniac, or some combination of the three, it'd make a pretty sweet addition to your abode. [LiveSpark]

Titanium Tricycle Ensures Trust Fund Babies Break The Bank, Not Their Bike

Jack Loftus — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 17:00:00 EST

This $2,500 tricycle is pretty straightforward. Made of titanium, the hook is the trike is nigh indestructible, meaning rich little snots can pedal around the driveway without fear of bending the frame or snapping it in two. Racing to the mailbox for the latest Hammacher Schlemmer catalog has never been safer. A carbon (fiber?!) seat, white leather saddle and white rims complete the look. Just be wary of that silver spoon in your kids' mouth as jockey for position at playtime. Hello? Choking hazard, anyone? [Jan via FirstBike]

Huge Gallery of Hyper-Expensive, Tacky Cellphones

Charlie White — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 11:15:00 EDT

Some cell phones are so super luxurious that it's just getting out of hand. Wired magazine searched the world over for the most expensive, most ostentatious, and sometimes just the most downright craziest cellphones, showing us that some shit-for-brains rich people will buy anything, going to any lengths to get rid of their money.

It's said that the rich are different from you and me. Yeah, some of them are just incredibly stupid. Follow along in the gallery and be shocked, amazed and disgusted with levels of excess unseen since the French Revolution. – Charlie White

The World's Most Expensive Cell Phones [Wired]