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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. Cheapest MP3 player by Profane+MuthaFucka · · Score: 3, Informative

    http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTool s/item-details.asp?EdpNo=1238959&CatId=1695

    That one is $30, but every once in a while there are rebates which bring the price down to $10. There's no memory in it, but if you've got a SD card laying around this could be a nice little player.

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  2. Re:Stupid by ivan256 · · Score: 5, Informative

    Hmm, 63 diamonds that add up to 1 carat... 1/63 carat diamonds are not rare, artificially so or otherwise. There are about $4 worth of diamonds in this MP3 player, if that.

    It never ceases to amaze me how much people will pay for things that have tiny chips of diamond on them if they're told the chips add up to a carat. If the size of the diamond is less than a half carat, and you're paying multiple digits of dollars for it, you got ripped off. (I mean moreso than if you buy a multi-carat diamond at the going rate.)

    If this MP3 player is gold-plated and has diamond chips in it, it's likely that they raised the manufacture cost by $20 or so... If it's cast in gold (like the article says, but I don't believe them), that's another story, but we'd have to know how much it weighed before we could jump to price judgement.

  3. Re:Some other expensive technology... by mypalmike · · Score: 2, Informative

    The Dreamcast computer game Shenmue cost $20 million to develop

    "Enter the Matrix": estimated $30 million
    http://www.armchairempire.com/Reviews/PC%20Games/e nter-matrix.htm

    "Daikatana": estimated $25 million (from an article on my former employer, LGS)
    http://dir.salon.com/story/tech/feature/2000/06/20 /dark_glass/index.xml

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  4. Re:Ogg support! by Eskarel · · Score: 2, Informative
    Actually the T-30 is only MTP if you buy it in the US or certain parts of Europe. If you buy one in Australia, Asia or a few other places then it's just a regular old mass storage device which mounts just fine on my linux boot.

    I'm just going to point and laugh now.