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World's Most Expensive Mp3 Player

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the horribly-disgusting dept.

An anonymous reader writes "TrekStor, a German manufacturer of MP3 players has developed the world's most expensive MP3 player. This unique custom-made portable player is based on TrekStor's i.Beat organix mp3 player, and has one GB of memory, 25 hour battery life, supports MP3, WMA, WAV, ASF, OGG audio files, and is cast in 18 carat gold with 63 diamonds (one carat)."

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  1. Bah. by Malor · · Score: 5, Funny

    You can have my slightly-beat-up 40g iPod, with a tired battery, for TWICE that price.

    There.... 'most expensive' didn't last that long. :)

  2. Grammy Bling by wiz31337 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Finally an MP3 player I can wear to the Grammy Awards!

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  3. Huh? How can it be the "most expensive"... by Fallen+Kell · · Score: 5, Funny

    ... when they havn't even ANNOUNCED the price? How do they know it will cost more then the Sun Enterprise 10000 that is sharing out MP3 files which are then decoded on a SunRay Thin Client and played for me at my desk? Huh? Huh? Riddle me that Batman...

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    1. Re:Huh? How can it be the "most expensive"... by thefirelane · · Score: 5, Funny
      when they havn't even ANNOUNCED the price

      They have a price matching + 1 policy.

  4. Morons by Locke2005 · · Score: 5, Funny

    I could gold-plate a cow turd to create the most expensive cow turd in the world... but that doesn't make it any BETTER than any other piece of shit out there! Same goes for this MP3 player...

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    1. Re:Morons by hal2814 · · Score: 2, Funny

      Reminds me of a joke:

      Back in the days of outhouses, there was a wealthy man who wanted an outhouse that didn't smell. One day a salesman came to his house and promised him just that. The salesman brought in the builders who used the most precious materials they could find and built a massive, jewel-encrusted outhouse.

      The owner was pleased with the appearence of the outhouse. When completed, he used it for his usual business and sure enough the outhouse stank. He called up the salesman who came by to look at the outhouse to see why it's not working as intended.

      He stuck his head in the door and immedeately jerked it back out. "I see your problem," he said to the owner. "Someone took a crap in there."

    2. Re:Morons by Lispy · · Score: 4, Funny

      Not impressed until I see one made of mithril!

    3. Re:Morons by jayhawk88 · · Score: 2, Funny

      Thank you Jokey McNoget.

  5. Ha! by plopez · · Score: 5, Funny

    I think the Elbonians go them beat. Esp. if you count in the cost of the tractor needed to move the Elbonian MP3 player...

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    1. Re:Ha! by MarkGriz · · Score: 2, Funny

      "Esp. if you count in the cost of the tractor needed to move the Elbonian MP3 player..."

      Yes, but it's worth it just for the lips.

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  6. Re:Interesting paradox by Malor · · Score: 2, Funny

    Eh, who you going to believe... a publicly traded corporation, or a random Slashdot poster?

  7. It's all about pricing... by __aaclcg7560 · · Score: 2, Funny

    This MP3 player is the one everyone is talking about!

  8. Re:Interesting paradox by networkBoy · · Score: 4, Funny

    /. poster.
    by miles.
    -nB

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  9. Ha by Reality+Master+101 · · Score: 4, Funny

    You know that Apple and Steve won't take this lying down. Just wait for the next product announcement. Apple WILL have the most expensive and overpriced technology, or Steve will personally scream at people until he does!

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  10. Fromt TFA... by Shadow+Wrought · · Score: 5, Funny

    When asked what market they were targeting, the german company replied, "Paris Hilton."

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    1. Re:Fromt TFA... by Hogwash+McFly · · Score: 5, Funny

      Brings a new meaning to the term 'market penetration'...

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  11. Not an iPod. by otis+wildflower · · Score: 2, Funny

    It doesn't matter, it's not an iPod. Chicks dig iPod, so ask for it by name.

    Give me an iPod that has a red LED screen and 14k gold all around so that it looks like some kind of wicked '70s digital watch, Daddy _like_...

  12. Same old story by Keith+Russell · · Score: 5, Funny

    No platinum. Fewer diamonds than a Victoria's Secret bra. Lame.

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  13. Re:Shame... by Jozer99 · · Score: 3, Funny

    You know, before this, I wasn't sure, but now I can confidently say that covering any piece of crap in gold and diamonds will make it an obscenely expensive piece of crap. Substitute whatever object you want (i.e. pen, mp3 player, cellphone, car, wife) for "piece of crap". I call it Jozer's Law.

  14. Language barrier. by The-Bus · · Score: 3, Funny
    Internal memo found from TrekStor:

    To: TrekStor Design Team
    From: Klaus, Head of R&D

    OK, we're in a heap of trouble. As we know, at our pow-wow a week ago our CEO handed me a napkin with the specs for our next player. As we all know it said "Feature: Rich!!!" with rich underlined three times.

    Well, about an hour after we got delivery of this prototype diamond player I looked at the napkin again and realized the colon was just two dots of soy sauce. It's supposed to be "feature rich"... without the colon! We need to figure out how we can unload this, pronto! Everyone call your wealthy friends.

    Danke,
    Klaus



    See, now it all makes sense.
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  15. Re:3000 Keyboard by crabpeople · · Score: 3, Funny
    Your second sentance
    everytime you look at it, just remember all the poor people you had to screw over to make enough money that you can just drop it on something like this.

    answers the first...
    I was just like "who the hell would buy something like that."


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  16. Oh the irony... by Fluoxetine+Freak · · Score: 3, Funny
    ...of a site dedicated to the most expensive things, running Google ads that are for the *cheapest* mp3 players alongside TFA.

    Back to Cute Overload it is then...