Stuart Hughes New iPhone Boasts Space Debris, Dinosaur Tooth

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If you want a piece of hardware embellished with a truly unnecessary amount of gold and diamonds and suchlike, it’s not uncommon to turn to Stuart Hughes. But this time, they may well have even outdone themselves for sheer levels of ostentatious in their design. What did they use? Not gold this time…but rather, a chunk of a Tyrannosaur’s head and a rock that fell from outer space.

It’s called the iPhone 4 History Edition, and it boasts a combination of parts from an actual T-Rex tooth and a chunk of meteor. And of course, just in case you feel short-changed without diamonds and precious metals, don’t worry–those are here too. They’ve set the outer rim of the iPhone 4 with a series of 8.5 carat “IF” flawless diamonds. Plus, the tooth has an Apple logo on it…in platinum. The logo is also studded with diamonds.

I always enjoy hearing about strange new embellishments for hardware, but I have to wonder, would anyone actually buy this stuff? The iPhone 4 History Edition costs–get this–fully $53,169.35 (39,995 in pounds sterling). That’s as much as some entire houses go for in some places, and not HUD repos or other such wreckages, but actual and pretty nice houses. But hearing about this always leads me to ask one important question: how do you top this?

Seriously–how do you top this? What’s next for Stuart Hughes, an iPhone made from parts of the original USS Constitution? Shredded bits of the Mona Lisa? A battery powered by the tortured soul of a forsaken child, a la Venture Brothers and Dr. Venture’s Joy Can?

By all reports, it doesn’t do anything different from your standard iPhone, it just looks a whole lot different. And if you’re ready to drop the equivalent of a home mortgage on an iPhone, well, you’ll get your opportunity soon enough. No word on release dates as yet, but maybe they’ll be out in time for Christmas.