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Swarovski Crystal Engagement Ring (With USB)
I've proposed three times in my life. Once was with a traditional diamond ring (it went well). The other two were with tacky USB devices (which also went well). The lesson learned? I'm suave enough to score chicks people as long as I'm on my knees.
As for my next weapon of choice, it will have to be this USB Flash Drive Swarovski Crystal Engagement Ring. Only a concept at the moment, manufacturers are fearing releasing this technology that fuses tacky USB with ostentatious stones, lest I score every person in the entire world. [designer via tfts]
wii art
Crystal Icing is back with two more additions to their Swarovski encrusted Wii range. They previously bought us the Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess edition, which looked remarkable. Well, they are obviously onto a winning formula; just checkout the new Super Smash Bros Brawl inspired Wii / Swarovski overkill artworks. Sure, they are excessive, but we have always wanted to see what Bowser looked like when he's all blinged out by 20,000 crystals. If you have had similar queries about Mario, jump in to put your curiosities aside.
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Crystal Icing Give Mario, Bowser SwaroskWii Treatment
Crystal Icing is back with two more additions to their Swarovski encrusted Wii range. They previously bought us the Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess edition, which looked remarkable. Well, they are obviously onto a winning formula; just checkout the new Super Smash Bros Brawl inspired Wii / Swarovski overkill artworks. Sure, they are excessive, but we have always wanted to see what Bowser looked like when he's all blinged out by 20,000 crystals. If you have had similar queries about Mario, jump in to put your curiosities aside.
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laptops
Swarovski-embedded Hello Kitty Laptop Makes Us Wince, Groan, then Vomit in Anger
As if adorning an otherwise fine laptop in Swarovski crystals or Hello Kitty logos wasn't bad enough, NEC has made a laptop with both Swarovski and Hello Kitty, making this the worst laptop we've ever seen. Seriously, we're not even going to bother showing you the specs, because if anybody purchases this thing from Japan, we're going to have to revoke their Gizmodo license. We're sorry, but it has to be done. [Far East Gizmos]
unintended consequences
iPod nano Becomes Gold-Plated Zune with Gilty Couture
There's a new Swarovski-encrusting, gold-plating organization on the rise, going by the name of Gilty Couture. It's got a wide range of precious metal hard-cases from $55 to $200, with crystals "evoking the Gilded Age of the late 1800s." However, one enclosure in particular evokes something else: it gives the newest "fat" iPod nano a Swarovski trim that makes look an awful lot like a first-gen Zune. My guess is that this was unintentional, but hey, if you're one of those fence-ridin' types, this might be your ideal stocking stuffer, in gold or silver. [Gilty Couture]
gaming
Swarovski-Encrusted Wii Actually Doesn't Look Like Crystalized Poop
We normally avoid posting things coated in Swarovski crystals like Asians avoid SARS, but this particular crystalized Wii looks spectacular. The console has the Twilight Princess Link/Wolf engraved on one side, the TriForce logo engraved on the other and the actual TriForce (with Kanji labels) on the front. We're not sure how much it costs, but count us and Kotaku in. [Crystalicing]
bad bling
Swarovski-Infected Limited Edition Mplayer from iRiver
iRiver's Mplayer, the Mickey Mouse-themed music player, has been given the bling treatment just in time for Christmas. Just 500 of these glittery rodent-redolent MP3- and WMA-compatible players have been made, and they come with lanyard-style earphones. More »
no thank you
$1,690 Gundam Shirt Teases Us With Vomit
These days, wearing a giant robot on your shirt just isn't enough to be ostracized from the party. Step up your game with the the Swarovski crystal hand-stitched Gundam tee. Not only is it a worthy homage to your favorite battle robot, but to Swarovski-covered tech everywhere. (On a side note, when will manufacturers tire of the same old, cover it in crystal method of making gadgets more expensive. How about just manufacturing more amazing tech?)
So just how much is too much to spend on geek fashion? I'd wager $1,690 is, at minimum, a starting point for the discussion. [plasticbamboo]
bling
Swarovski whores with $66,000 to spare might be interested in this Maneki Neko doll from Hello Kitty. It parked its cat butt at a Tokyo department store recently in order to show off around 800 one-off Kitty products.
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Hello Kitty Swarovski Maneki Neto Doll is Yours for $66,000
Swarovski whores with $66,000 to spare might be interested in this Maneki Neko doll from Hello Kitty. It parked its cat butt at a Tokyo department store recently in order to show off around 800 one-off Kitty products.
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are you kidding me?
Crystal Icing, known for covering various electronics in Swarovski crystals, offers an iPhone given the same treatment. For $295, you can get your phone "iced" with 1,500 regular-sized crystals, or 3,000 really small ones. Patterns range from butterflies to "tons of flowers" to flames. Or even camo, for you tough guys with an eye for fashion. If you don't like any of their premade patterns, you can request a custom way to ruin your phone. You know, because doing this to your iPhone, you've got to hate it. Or maybe you just hate money.
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Crystal Icing Offers iPhone, Swarovski-Style
Crystal Icing, known for covering various electronics in Swarovski crystals, offers an iPhone given the same treatment. For $295, you can get your phone "iced" with 1,500 regular-sized crystals, or 3,000 really small ones. Patterns range from butterflies to "tons of flowers" to flames. Or even camo, for you tough guys with an eye for fashion. If you don't like any of their premade patterns, you can request a custom way to ruin your phone. You know, because doing this to your iPhone, you've got to hate it. Or maybe you just hate money.
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LED Fashion Makes You Look Groovy, in a NYC Skyline Kind of Way
Looks like designer Hussein Chalayan and Swarovski have at last come up with LED clothing that doesn't make you look like an alien (not too much, anyway) or an utterly fashion-blind dork. The dress has two layers, with a translucent fabric covering the LEDs. If you live outside Japan, however, you will have to keep doing your LED garments yourself for now. More »
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Philips and Swarovski Launch Active Crystals Luxury Electronics in US
I always look at boring old USB drives and ask, "Why can't these be jewel-encrusted?" Ditto for my run-of-the-mill earbuds, which seem to lack some kind of large embedded crystal. Believe it or not, the Philips-Swarovski Active Crystals collection is due to arrive in the US this August, and we've got the exclusive first look at the lineup. More »
gadgets
Crystal Roc Instruments Lined With Swarovski Gems
Swarovski crystals (you know, the same kind that every Tom, Dick and Harry company uses to line their products) line a series of musical instruments from Morten Schjolin, the man who helped bring us such useful members of society as Jennifer Lopez. Given the name Crystal Roc, these instruments— microphones, drums and guitars—are also just as beautiful on the inside as they are on the outside, with audio circuitry provided by the likes of Technics and Shure. More »
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Paris Hilton's Crystal-Studded Sidekick 3
As the saying goes, the rich get richer, and T-Mobile is more than happy to accommodate America's best and brightest with the launch of their highly anticipated Sidekick 3. Paris Hilton, the very talented, earned-everything-she's-ever-received-in-her-life socialite even has a special, Swarovski Crystal-encrusted verion of T-Mobile's wunderphone. Hilton's Sidekick 3 has a bunch of different stones on it that, apparently, make people feel important. Crystal, light rose and smoked topaz are but some of the shiny rocks on the Sidekick 3. Whether or not Hilton ever uttered the phrase, "I love my Sidekick! It's HOT," might well impact my opinions of humanity. More »
11:58 AM on Mon Jun 26 2006
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Swarovski-Festooned Vinyl Killer
Where will we see these ubiquitous Swarovski crystals next? The Swiss bauble maker may have gone too far in its quest to encrust the entire world in its tiny pieces of precision-cut glass, where now there's Vinyl Killer, a little VW Microbus covered with the shiny stuff, and its needle underneath makes contact with a vinyl LP as it drives around and around. More »
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Million Crystal Body: Swarovski Peep Show
One million Swarovski crystals have been placed on this alluring young model, with enterprising entrepreneurs aiming to sell these pieces of micro-bling one by one, for one euro each. Presented as a strange sort of performance art, as each crystal is sold, these impresarios will remove one from the model, eventually showing her in all her glory without any crystals at all (as if they're going to make her stand there and wait while they remove each one). That is, if they sell one million of these. So reads the breathless prose of the crystal hucksters:"Become a part of a world-spanning campaign and watch the uncovering of our model on our website. The more stones are sold, the more will be visible of the Million Crystal Body!"We're thinking that with all the porn available on the Internet, you can see millions of pictures of babes more beautiful than this for free; why would you want to buy a little piece of glass, keeping it as a some sort of souvenir of a mass disrobing ceremony? It's not surprising in a world where used panties command a pricey premium. More »
