$2,250 Swarovski-Studded iPad is Sheer Aesthetic Torture

John Brownlee ()

$2,250 Swarovski-Studded iPad is Sheer Aesthetic Torture

Dip a human being in glue, roll him up in crushed glass and steal $2,250 from his wallet and it’s called torture, but when CrystalRoc does the same thing except for calling the crushed glass “Swarovski crystals,” not only does no one call the cops, but George Michael excitedly calls up his personal shopper for one.

It’s all just semantics though. It’s still torture.

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John BrownleeJohn Brownlee is news editor here at Cult of Mac, and has also written about a lot of things for a lot of different places, including Wired, Playboy, Boing Boing, Popular Mechanics, Gizmodo, Kotaku, Lifehacker, AMC, Geek and the Consumerist. He lives in Cambridge with his charming inamorata and a tiny budgerigar punningly christened after Nabokov's most famous pervert. You can follow him here on Twitter.

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  • Jon

    George Michael? Is that some lame gay joke? I’m gay, so I must want one of these tacky crystal-covered iPads too. Offensive.

  • John Brownlee

    No, it wasn’t a gay joke, it was a bad taste joke. Please click on the CrystalRoc links, scroll to the bottom of the page and notice that George Michael is an endorsing CrystalRoc artist who uses one of their gaudy, Swarovski-encrusted microphones in concert. There’s nothing prejudicial about making a joke about a guy who ACTUALLY uses CrystalRoc’s products.

  • http://www.toxicspark.com Andrew Macdonald

    You’re a bit slow on the uptake of this story, aren’t you John??

    TechCrunch published an article about the same company with the same pictures over a month ago.

  • John Brownlee

    Andrew,

    My first response would be “Who cares when Techcrunch wrote about it?” This isn’t a “story,” it’s a monstrosity. Monstrosities are timeless.

    My second would be: are you sure that they wrote about it? A Google search certainly doesn’t come up with anything. You may be confusing it with this diamond-encrusted iPad clone:

    http://www.cultofmac.com/bottom-feeding-jeweler-unveils-despicable-diamond-ipad-for-20000/33611

  • Alfred

    This further goes to prove that having money != having taste.