World's Most Expensive Mp3 Player 217
An anonymous reader writes "TrekStor, a German manufacturer of MP3 players has developed the world's most expensive MP3 player. This unique custom-made portable player is based on TrekStor's i.Beat organix mp3 player, and has one GB of memory, 25 hour battery life, supports MP3, WMA, WAV, ASF, OGG audio files, and is cast in 18 carat gold with 63 diamonds (one carat)."
Bah. (Score:5, Funny)
There.... 'most expensive' didn't last that long.
Interesting paradox (Score:2)
Re:Interesting paradox (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Interesting paradox (Score:5, Funny)
by miles.
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Re:Bah. (Score:2)
expensive useless crap for stupid rich people (Score:2)
Re:expensive useless crap for stupid rich people (Score:2)
Have I missed something? (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Have I missed something? (Score:3, Insightful)
I'm wondering how it became the "world's most expensive mp3 player."
Re:Have I missed something? (Score:2)
Intergem White Gold, Diamond-encrusted iPod Nano Case [intergem.net]
The stupid thing about it is that "most expensive" is so fleeting. All someone would have to do is craft a device that uses more gold or more diamond, and ta da.
Re:Have I missed something? (Score:2)
Or just put a ridiculous price on an ordinary MP3 player. Just because nobody is stupid enough to buy it, it doesn't mean that it's not the most expensive.
Re:Have I missed something? (Score:2)
What? The 24 caret gold and studded diamonds aren't enough of a tipoff?
Honestly, I think it looks terrible. If you're going to make a player out of Gold and Diamonds, make it look like it's made of Gold and Diamonds. Don't just plate a regular player with a black, plastic screen and green LEDs. It will clash with all the expensive decorations.
Re:Have I missed something? (Score:2)
I'll tell you what 24 caret gold and studded diamonds remind me of: Fingerhut. In other words, Crap. Cheap crap. With tiny worthless diamonds and a thin but pure gold electroplate coating. I am so glad this shit of a company ruined my image of richness, but forever gold and diamonds will seem cheap, tacky, and Forever Fingerhut.
Not telling you the price? That's Infomercial 101. Don't answer yet, there's more!
The thing looks like
Close, but not luxury looking yet (Score:2)
Grammy Bling (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Grammy Bling (Score:2)
Huh? How can it be the "most expensive"... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Huh? How can it be the "most expensive"... (Score:5, Funny)
They have a price matching + 1 policy.
Re:Huh? How can it be the "most expensive"... (Score:2)
OTOH, if your Sun 10k is a dedicated mp3 server, Send me an application, I want to work where you are!
Re:Huh? How can it be the "most expensive"... (Score:2)
How do you know your E10K is worth more? (Score:2)
http://www.anysystem.com/sunen10e12ra.html [anysystem.com]
"Here's a nickel, kid, get yourself a better computer."
-Dilbert
Re:Huh? How can it be the "most expensive"... (Score:2)
A nitpick: a Sun Ray doesn't decode anything. All its software runs on the host. Like all of the current generation of "thin clients" it's not a client at all, just a kind of terminal.
Ironically, I'm typing this on one...
Re:Huh? How can it be the "most expensive"... (Score:2)
With up to a $250,000 fine and 6 months in jail per infraction, you bet your sweet ass its more expensive than any ol mp3 *player*...
Re:Huh? How can it be the "most expensive"... (Score:2)
3000 Keyboard (Score:2)
I was just like "who the hell would buy something like that."
This too. It's just too much. It's like, buy one of those, and everytime you look at it, just remember all the poor people you had to screw over to make enough money that you can just drop it on something like this.
Re:3000 Keyboard (Score:4, Funny)
answers the first...
Re:3000 Keyboard (Score:2)
Re:3000 Keyboard (Score:2)
That's the most ridiculous thing I've heard in a long time. Wealth is not a zero-sum game. I, like everyone else I know, don't get rich screwing people over. Instead, we get rich from benefiting other people, who voluntarily increase our wealth. Poverty is not a virtue, nor is wealth evil.
Right... I'm aware that it's not a zero-sum game, because the Gov can produce more money at any time. But when you th
Re:3000 Keyboard (Score:2)
you see where your logic utterly fails?
I don't know anyone who has been made rich by taking from the poor.
Re:3000 Keyboard (Score:2)
Shut up troll. Just because someone adds a little information into things, doesn't mean you have to be a dick about it.
Some people may not even know what KDW is. I didn't know until I actually went to Berlin, and I had been speaking German for 10 years.
Re:3000 Keyboard (Score:2)
It didn't taste right, and cost twice as much, but then, so will anything that's a local specialty outside of that area. I was just more surprised that they even had Weisswurst there.
I think that's the only thing I bought there, everything else was just way too overpriced, or was just plain expensive to be
Re:3000 Keyboard (Score:2)
The KaDeWe is mainly a tourist trap.
Though I know some people that once in a while go there to shop for gifts or buy some specialities (foodwise) that you won't (easily) get elsewhere.
Like the Weisswurst you mentioned.
Also: Weisswurst in Berlin? Heretic! You are supposed to eat Currywurst or Doener.
Re:3000 Keyboard (Score:2)
Oh, *so* true. Hehe.
Also: Weisswurst in Berlin? Heretic! You are supposed to eat Currywurst or Doener.
Hey! I spent a month in Munich, a year or two before hand, so I was DYING for some Weisswurst. I mean, as bad as it is to get Weisswurst in Berlin, imagine trying to get it anywhere in the US! Although, I kind of regret the choice, now.
I did however eat my first night there at a placed called "Schildkröte", and got the "Berliner Teller", it was damn nice.
Morons (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Morons (Score:3, Funny)
Back in the days of outhouses, there was a wealthy man who wanted an outhouse that didn't smell. One day a salesman came to his house and promised him just that. The salesman brought in the builders who used the most precious materials they could find and built a massive, jewel-encrusted outhouse.
The owner was pleased with the appearence of the outhouse. When completed, he used it for his usual business and sure enough the outhouse stank. He called up the salesman who came by to loo
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Re:Morons (Score:5, Insightful)
If I were going to get the most expensive MP3 player, I'd want it to start with about 100GB of flash, and then come up with some other innovative features too. Maybe an FM tuner and both XM and Sirius tuners, along with recording/time shifting their content. Video and photo capability. Maybe HD video out? Or really high audio quality and support for some good lossless encoding scheme. Come on, do something impressive.
Otherwise, I think anyone with that much money to waste on an MP3 player and jewelry would do a lot better buying a gorgeous watch and an iPod Nano. I mean, why get something gold plated and jeweled that's going to be obsolete in a few years anyway?
Of course, maybe that's the whole point- to really show off your wealth, you need to not only indulge in conspicuous consumption, but stupid conspicuous consumption. You don't buy fancy expensive stuff that's high quality and will last, you buy fancy, expensive stuff that's low quality and disposable. That'll really show off how rich you are.
Re:Morons (Score:2)
Exactly.
Seeing this article made me wonder whatever happened to the gold-plated, diamond-encrusted Sega Game Gear from the early 90s. Melted down to recover the gold, I
Re:Morons (Score:3, Interesting)
With a brief look at Amazon, how about the COBY MP-C941? Or the BoomGear MP-800? Or the RCA Lyra RD2217? A Yahoo! Shopping s
Re:Morons (Score:5, Funny)
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The turd market (Score:2)
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Re:Turds (Score:2)
"Yo Yo Yo! Check out my MP3 Playaz! Ain't it the Shiznit?"
Re:Morons (Score:2)
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Stupid (Score:2)
Re:Stupid (Score:5, Informative)
It never ceases to amaze me how much people will pay for things that have tiny chips of diamond on them if they're told the chips add up to a carat. If the size of the diamond is less than a half carat, and you're paying multiple digits of dollars for it, you got ripped off. (I mean moreso than if you buy a multi-carat diamond at the going rate.)
If this MP3 player is gold-plated and has diamond chips in it, it's likely that they raised the manufacture cost by $20 or so... If it's cast in gold (like the article says, but I don't believe them), that's another story, but we'd have to know how much it weighed before we could jump to price judgement.
Re:Stupid (Score:2)
It's supposed to be expensive... Cast it in gold and still charge significantly more than the parts are worth.
Of course there are so many expensive things that can play MP3s that it is a meaningless comment.
My USB key + MP3 player/Transmitter + Jeep + FM Radio combination is probably the most expensive that I own... And it's mobile.
The Widescreen TV that we just bought can play MP3s... I'm not sure why they felt the need, but it does.
Z.
Re:Stupid (Score:2)
Re:Stupid (Score:2)
Re:Didn't that mean... (Score:2)
With a round cut, 1 carat diamonds are about 6mm across.
Ha! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Ha! (Score:3, Funny)
Yes, but it's worth it just for the lips.
Re:Ha! (Score:2)
Useful? (Score:2)
Some other expensive technology... (Score:4, Interesting)
A cellphone designed by David Morris International, of London, UK, sold for $104, 050 in 1996. Made entirely from 18-carat gold, it has a keypad encrusted with pink and white diamonds. David Morris International is one of the world's most high-profile jewellers. The company supplied all the jewelry worn in the James Bond film Diamonds Are Forever (UK, 1971).
As it turns out, the Hubble Telescope is the most expensive telescope--taking US$3 billion--and the most expensive domain name is (ironically) business.com, going for a wholesome £4.6 million (almost US$8 million). The Dreamcast computer game Shenmue cost $20 million to develop, and the Wilson WAMM system (Wilson Audio Modular Monitor) speakers cost $225,000.
It's entertaining to see little ventures like this. But let's face, the MP3 player is just for kicks. This is slightly interesting; at most.
Re:Some other expensive technology... (Score:3, Informative)
"Enter the Matrix": estimated $30 million
http://www.armchairempire.com/Reviews/PC%20Games/e nter-matrix.htm [armchairempire.com]
"Daikatana": estimated $25 million (from an article on my former employer, LGS)
http://dir.salon.com/story/tech/feature/2000/06/20
Re:Some other expensive technology... (Score:2)
Anyone care to make a guess as to how much Blizzard's 5 years of WoW development cost? Or for that matter the amount spent on the next Unreal Tournament, considering we've seen games using its engine yet the game itself has yet to be released? Duke Nukem Forever?
Cheapest MP3 player (Score:3, Informative)
That one is $30, but every once in a while there are rebates which bring the price down to $10. There's no memory in it, but if you've got a SD card laying around this could be a nice little player.
Crap Article... (Score:2)
Anyone else hearing the Earl of Yankerville shouting, "Take that price and DOUBLE IT!!!!!"
You missed the most critical point (Score:2)
Most-Expensive isn't an adjective. It's a trademark (at least, it's the name of the domain...) No need to set the price.
Note, OGG = best. Nice marketing. (Score:2)
This is... (Score:2)
That photograph... (Score:3, Insightful)
I beg to differ (Score:4, Insightful)
How is it the "most expensive" if they haven't set a price?
Personally, I think this: http://www.automobilemag.com/auto_shows/naias_200
Doesn't even use RAM, it's a friggin' cd player.
It's all about pricing... (Score:3, Funny)
Ha (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Ha (Score:2)
Ahem (Score:2)
I never understood why (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:I never understood why (Score:2)
Conspicious consumption is a means of broadcasting to your peer group that yes, you can afford this item, and oh, if they can't, that's allright - you
Fromt TFA... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Fromt TFA... (Score:5, Funny)
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Not an iPod. (Score:2, Funny)
Give me an iPod that has a red LED screen and 14k gold all around so that it looks like some kind of wicked '70s digital watch, Daddy _like_...
Diamonds are cheap in bulk (Score:2)
Anonymous reader writes... (Score:2)
Seriously. Spend 5 minutes on the site and it looks like it is thrown together in 5 minutes. Most posts don't even have comments.
Oh, I get it ....funny (Score:2)
Same old story (Score:5, Funny)
No platinum. Fewer diamonds than a Victoria's Secret bra. Lame.
Re:Same old story (Score:2)
also, why are we still pretending diamonds are valuable? why not use something that's not easy to manufacture from a material that's as common as water? They're not even precious gems. they're "semi-precious."
No FLAC, no deal (Score:2)
WAV? (Score:2)
Most expensive MP3 player = Unisys Clearpath ($2M) (Score:2)
Language barrier. (Score:4, Funny)
See, now it all makes sense.
Nooooo (Score:3, Insightful)
But where? (Score:2)
Well.... (Score:2)
Starting bid:
100 Mee-eeelion dollars! (diamond rio)\
Guess what? I can set the price at anything I want. What matters is if the fucktard pays it. Heh heh
I've got an even more expensive iPod (Score:2)
Oh the irony... (Score:3, Funny)
Back to Cute Overload it is then...
Avoid Slashdotting, Go To The Source (Score:2)
Awesome Marketing (Score:2)
Re:Ogg support! (Score:3, Insightful)
IRiver just put out a great 1-G player with Ogg support...
...wait for it...
...that doesn't use USB mass storage and instead only uses the proprietary MPT only available on Widnows XP.
So, they supported oggs, and then cut off the one section of the market that gives a damn about oggs... now they'll probably point to the slow sales of the model and say, "see? people don't want ogg".
Re:Ogg support! (Score:2)
Has an inbuilt voice recorder and does every Ogg bitrate known to man.
Re:Ogg support! (Score:2)
Re:Ogg support! (Score:3, Informative)
I'm just going to point and laugh now.
tell me about that iriver (Score:2)
For older models, that's true. I have a H320 and like it.
What newer models is it true for? I know that it's not true for every model available at Best Buy. All of them use, mtp, a crapy M$ transfer protocol. I tried the small portable players and the nifty looking movie player and another one in between. I'd love to see a link to a model without this problem.
Re:iriver transformation MTP UMS (Score:2)
Re:Shame... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Love those tags, but... (Score:2)
This is basically moderation for stories.