TechnoLust – The World’s Most Expensive MP3 Player

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The first entry in Thoughts from the Sidelines’ TechnoLust section is the world’s most expensive MP3 player – the i.Beat Organix Gold by TrekStor. Costing a cool £13,600, its shell is composed of 18-carat gold set with a total of 63 one caret diamonds (taking the jewellers over 100 man hours to construct).

Initially designed following a personal commission from the Russian-Canadian billionaire, Alex Shnaider – who also happens to be the owner of the Midland Formula One team – the player offers one gigabyte of memory, which is roughly equivalent to 240 tracks, as well as a host of other high-level features.

Feature List:

• Playable file formats: MP3, WMA, WAV, ASF, OGG
• Integrated stereo FM radio
• 2 headphone jacks
• Integrated voice recorder (MP3)
• Folder navigation
• Extremely sharp 2-colour OLED display
• Direct recording from the radio (as an MP3 file) (optional)
• Line-in recording (MP3)
• Supports WMA-DRM9 (supports DRM-protected files)
• 16 station presets / automatic station search
• ID3 tag display
• Maximum operating time of 25 hours
• Hi-Speed USB 2.0 (downward-compatible to USB 1.1)
• Lithium-polymer battery (charged via the USB)
• Equalizer visualization
• SRS WOW – Surround Sound
• 11 equalizers + user equalizer
• Digital clock, alarm function, stopwatch
• Mobile data storage device (“USB Mass Storage Device”)
• German and English user guide
• Firmware update possible

Personally, though I can certainly appreciate the craftsmanship required to produce this player, I have to be honest and say that it really doesn’t float my boat (so I’ll be sticking with my Samsung player in the meantime). Besides, I can imagine what would happen it I flashed this on the packed commuter train on my way into work and I can also envisage leaving the train some minutes later, heavily concussed and with it no longer in my possession.

Top points for quality, undoubtedly, but for us mere mortals could such a device even be considered remotely practical? (Out of interest, at 1 gigabytes of memory, the price per megabyte equates to £1,360 per MB storage – ouch!)

Nevertheless, if you have that sort of money burning a hole in your wallet, and you are in the market for a new MP3 player, you can visit Treksor’s site here.

(And if you have that sort of money spare and don’t know what to do with it the following applies to you…..Hi, how are you, great to meet you, you’re looking well….what a present? For me? Cash? Oh, I couldn’t – oh on second thoughts, it would be rude to say no….:-)).

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