Regular Money to have, over the last... ok,
however many issues, looked at some very expensive stuff. I mean,
realistically, we have taken a Sceptical gander at items with price tags that
would rival the GPD of a small country. But that’s OK, because every item we
have looked at has been functional. Sure, some of them... strike that. Most of
them were pretty ordinary, everyday gadgets that had a lot of bling stuck on
them. But there were examples of really cool stuff that actually seemed worth
the cost, beyond being plated in several kilograms of gold and enough diamonds
to wallpaper a modest apartment with. Even the silly stuff, like dinosaur-bone
enhanced iPads and gold coated Wii consoles served a function beyond just
looking good. It might not have been an important function, but a function none
the less..
Anita
Mai Tan diamond drag
This month, though, we have a real treat
for you. Yes, this object has a function. Sure. And that function is to carry
an iPhone in it. That’s it. It’s an iPhone case. It doesn’t have
super-protective qualities. It doesn’t help recharge the phone. It doesn’t even
look particularly shock proof. OK, fair enough, you can wear it on a chain...
but we suspect that an iPhone sized pendant may be a) really heavy and b)
attractive to those nasty elements who would take your iPhone away from you,
case and all, Particularly in the case of this case.
See, Anita Mai Tan’s iPhone Case Extreme
costs $880,000. No, there aren’t too many zeroes there.
Eight-eight-zero-zero-zero-zero... eight hundred and eighty thousand, in other
words (or in big people speaks, actually).
Anita
Mai Tan diamond spid
Let’s do a little calculation here. You can
get a 32GB iPhone 4 for around $299. Let’s call it 300. So, realistically, you
could buy 293 iPhone 4s for the same price as this case. Note, case. iPhone not
included, although at the price we would hope that they’d throw a free 300 buck
phone into the deal. Maybe they do... they don’t say. But somehow we doubt it.
The reason for the price tag is the fact
that, for example, the Dragon version f the case is made out of 18 karat yellow
gold and studded with lots and lots of colourless, cognac, brown and champagne
diamonds. We must say that the craftsmanship is superb, all told.
If that price tag was on a tiara or
something similar we wouldn’t bat an eye.
But making something like this to be a box
to put your iPhone in seems a little ridiculous because, essentially, it’s a
box to put you iPhone in.
