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.
John Brownlee is a writer for Fast Company, and a contributing writer here at CoM. He has also written for Wired, Playboy, Boing Boing, Popular Mechanics, VentureBeat, and Gizmodo. He lives in Boston with his wife and two parakeets. You can follow him here on Twitter.
