Gadgets for the One Percent: What's the Most Ridiculous?
SodaHead News
2012/04/23 21:00:00
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CNBC recently published an article called "Gadgets for the 'One Percent'" spotlighting some of the most extravagant, ornate, and exquisite items in the tech world, from a $2,800 pair of leather-and-wood sound-isolating headphones from Ultrasone to a $2 million personal submarine from Hammacher Schlemmer.
Some of these items are expensive for the sake of being expensive, like a $1 million Luvaglio laptop that can only be unlocked with a fitted diamond.
On the more practical end -- key word "more" -- is the $8,400 Samsung SUR40, a touchscreen desktop computer that's actually a desktop. Or how about the 60 megapixel Hasselblad H4D camera, or the $58,000 Red Epic-M video camera that can shoot at 96 frames per second.
There's even a $10,700 Vertu Signature cell phone that comes with an OnStar-esque "concierge service" and ringtones played by the London Symphony Orchestra. So, we've got to ask: which item is the most ridiculous of them all?
Some of these items are expensive for the sake of being expensive, like a $1 million Luvaglio laptop that can only be unlocked with a fitted diamond.
On the more practical end -- key word "more" -- is the $8,400 Samsung SUR40, a touchscreen desktop computer that's actually a desktop. Or how about the 60 megapixel Hasselblad H4D camera, or the $58,000 Red Epic-M video camera that can shoot at 96 frames per second.
There's even a $10,700 Vertu Signature cell phone that comes with an OnStar-esque "concierge service" and ringtones played by the London Symphony Orchestra. So, we've got to ask: which item is the most ridiculous of them all?
I'd LOVE to be the owner of a Hasselblad ..
Unfortunately .. it's always, always been well out of my price range
(Sadly enough)
Gosh .. that would be a TREAT .. well loved .. if it happened to get mailed to me
(without the big bill, of course!)
REALLY?
Invest wisely you too can by any thing here you want and more.
Invest like the government, recently the Obama regime, in things like solyndra well then you can envy over things
seriously, this is a disingenuous report, cause ALL of these media types spend their off time WITH the 1%, and enjoying the perks of befriendiong the 1%, so them trying to screw the numbers and pitch envy is VERY hypocritical.
damn I can't afford that, I am below the 99ers
BUT, people used to have PRIDE in earning their own way and most felt total shame in using welfare, now it is a preferred lifestyle choice.
NOBAMA 2012
It is not moving so there is no chance.
And they paying for R&D; of submarine, for technology that in the future can be used for cheaper submarines?
No, they should stop spending money & give it all to government, because government knows better how to spend their money, or they can give it all to contries that have starving people - in Africa, that starving because of dictatorships in their countries.
By the way, remember in time of the USSR - US was giving food to starving people? I remember, because we were paying double price to USSR government for the US AID to try delicacy from US. )))) Yea, your aid was sold with double price tag & money were used to built better nukes. ))))
PS: Nice title from CNBC: "Gadgets for the 'One Percent'"
Media Fueling Class War.