Techeblog's roundup of the most ridiculous and overpriced gadgets is difficult to read; the sheer expense of these things, added to their ghastliness, reveals something unnerving about those who make and use them. Technology, you see, offers a clear and quantitive platform on which to make evaluations of quality: it's a game of specifications, functions and user-interface design.
Accordingly, attempts to make "designer" technology often reveal the nonexistent creative sensibility of the wealthy. Nothing shows up the empty idiocy of high fashion quite like a $23,000 haute couture ivory cellphone, "harvested from elephant."
Included in the roundup is a $765 flash drive with a nylon blue tassle, another phone with a gem-encusted snake twirled around it, and an LCD TV liberally studden with $130,000 of diamonds and white gold.
Expensive Gadgets That Shouldn’t Have Been Made [Techeblog]
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