Stuart Hughes has created yet another gold covered Apple product, this time it’s an iPod. This little beauty will set you back a mere $95,000. Dubbed the “SUPREME Rose”, this iPod features 263 grams of 18k rose gold, a platinum rear Apple logo with 53 diamonds and a platinum navigation button on the front with 4.5ct of diamonds surrounding it and a name that’s partly ALL CAPS. Only 10 will be made, so if you want them all maybe you should transfer $950,000 from savings to checking and pick up a few.

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The Hi Fido speaker by Matteo Cibic is a total woofer. Actually it’s a very high end speaker that uses ceramic to diffuse high quality sound with a bass reflex system (I’m not sure what that means either but it’s a dog, a speaker and 150 watts). Hi Fido stands about 2 feet tall. Available this April in extremely limited quantities (50 total and just 10 in the U.S.), no price listed yet.

This is easily the most outrageous (and largest!) iPod dock we’ve ever come across. The “Disco Table“, designed by Moritz Waldemeyer, is a go-go dancer cage, except the “cage” is virtual- made of LED lights and lasers and it has a smoke machine too. And oh yeah, it also has speakers and an iPod dock on the bottom. When it’s not being used as a makeshift club in your living room, it shuts down into a relatively normal looking Corian coffee table. No price listed, available “on demand for the discerning homebody”.

The USB powered shortwave radio is not really all that crazy as a gadget itself, but what is crazy about it is the fact that it plugs into a computer- the very thing that could conceivably wipe out shortwave radio. Shortwave radio operates on certain bands and frequencies that enable anyone- even amateurs, to broadcast anything with a worldwide reach for no cost beyond the initial cost of equipment. Which, if you think about it, is pretty much exactly what the internet can be used for- broadcasting worldwide (of note is that shortwave is still MUCH cheaper and requires no infrastructure, so it’s future in lesser developed and accessible areas is brighter).

This radio will play both shortwave and AM/FM radio and you can even record anything you hear to .mp3 or .wav via software to your computer. The shortwave radio picks up signals in the 3,000 – 20,000KHz frequencies. It costs $79 and is made by Thanko.

USB Shortwave Radio

We love to hate Hello Kitty here and this plush iPod speaker certainly does not disappoint in the ugh department. It’s designed to look like an overcute guitar amplifier complete with trademark Hello Kitty bow. There’s a little pocket in the back to hold your iPod or Hello Kitty MP3 player (you know you have one, just admit it) and it pumps out an earsplitting 0.5watts of pure plush kitty sonic power. Costs $14.50, start saving now.

This is actually a very smart idea by Klipsch. Taking advantage of the large size of your light sockets compared to the smaller size of today’s LED lights, Klipsch has created LightSpeakers which put a small wireless speaker in there with the light. Just screw the LightSpeakers into your existing sockets and you have instant wireless sound coming from your ceiling (or better yet- your walls if you have sconces). The great thing is that you will now have basically hidden speakers without having to do any crazy wiring. And unlike normal wireless speakers, they pull all their power right from the socket- so no batteries to change.

The dimmable lights are rated for 40,000 hours and use just 20 watts of electricity. There’s a wireless transmitter to hook up to your music source and a remote control, natch. This wireless speaker setup will cost you though- at $600 for two speaker lights and the transmitter and $250 for any additional speaker lights. On sale soon.

(gizmodo)

Apple products are the best- I love apple juice, apple sauce, apple pie, I love it all. Oh, I’m being told there’s a major computer company named Apple that makes all sorts of lovely gadgets. Never heard of them. And apparently neither have the lawyers for this company’s apple shaped speakers because they are just asking for it with these speakers.

Sure they could pull the ol’ “but it looks like an apple” defense but a trademark is a trademark. So I really like the way these “tree fruit” speakers pop open to release the sound. They remind me a lil bit of those Dwarf 360 speakers we covered previously.

The random appliance shaped speaker of the day is….envelope please… imma gonna let you finish but this tiny USB speaker shaped like a miniature rice cooker is so hot right now. Doesn’t actually cook rice. Probably doesn’t sound all that great either. Comes in black or white for $15 at USB Geek.