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Louis Vuitton releases first luxury iPhone cases

by Mike Schramm (RSS feed) on Jul 16th, 2007


This wasn't on the iPhone Bingo card, but it should have been. Where there's an extremely coveted gadget, there'll be an extremely expensive luxury case for it. Louis Vuitton has announced a set of four cases for the iPhone: Monogram Canvas, Taiga Leather, Epi Leather and Alligator Skin. The Taiga Leather one has a belt attachment on it, but all of the cases are pretty inconvenient, because you've got to pull the iPhone all the way out to actually use it.

Oh, and we've saved the best for last. Want to guess prices? The Monogram Canvas case will only set you back a measly $225, while the Alligator Skin case is twice the price of the actual iPhone: $1120. All the cases will be available tomorrow at Louis Vuitton's Fifth Avenue store in Manhattan.

Thanks, JW!

Tags: alligator, fashion, iphone, iphonebingo, iphonecases, leather, louisvuitton, luxury

Filed under: iPod Family

The Most Expensive iPod Speakers Ever!

by Damien Barrett (RSS feed) on Dec 31st, 2005

If you thought those $600 speakers for your iPod were expensive, you ain't seen nothing yet. Hammacher Schlemmer has released the Studio-Quality Triode-Tube iPod Speakers at a mere $3999.95. No, that's not a typo, they want you to spend four thousand dollars on a speaker set for your iPod.

Okay, take a minute and breathe. In. Out. In. Out. In. Out. Better?

Now, at least for the $4000 you get a nice device. From the product description:

"...the system consists of an aluminum-encased amplifier housing four powerful Class-A tubes which glow gently as they generate warm, low-octave sound that is virtually distortion-free, considered by audiophiles to be the most pleasing to the human ear. The tube amplifier smoothes over distortions found in modern digital recordings while helping to compensate and minimize the quality loss inherent in compressed audio such as MP3s."

So it's not like it's a $100 "antique" chair marked up to $5000 and being sold in some Upper East Side furniture store. There's some real tech involved.

If there's one thing I've learned living in NYC (and consulting for the rich and famous), it's that some people will buy anything if it's marked up high enough and perceived as a "luxury" item. I have to believe that this falls clearly in that category.

Tags: ipod, luxury, speakers

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