Yesterday I mocked Luvaglio's million-dollar laptop as most likely nonexistent, deriving skepticism from the dreadful quality of the leaked video, which appears pre-rendered. You see, it's easy to sell a million-dollar laptop if you have a track record as a luxury goods maker, but not something one would want to risk building on spec. Get the buyer first, then build it.
Luvaglio CEO Rohan Sinclair Luvaglio has said something refreshing, however, about their design approach:
This distinguishes it from, say, the items from a gallery we recently had up that comprised mainly of diamond-studded consumer drek (Neither Google nor Wired's own search seems able to find it). The implication is that the Paris Hiltons of the world don't want custom-made items of great beauty, but instead the same thing as everyone else with a showy dollop of contrivance: they don't want to be seen as more discriminating or tasteful than other people, just extremely wealthy.
The first million dollar laptop [Gizmag]
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