The Ivory Phone is one of six in the world. Carved from elephant ivory, and mammoth and camel bones, it is adorned with sixteen dragons and other icons indicating praise of Guangzhou China. $23,000 USD.
It's one thing to have phones encrusted with diamonds, gold and platinum; we see them quite regularly at Shiny Shiny and feel a mix of bemusement and covetousness. It's silly, but at least the bling can be recycled into something else - the diamonds plucked out and the metal melted down. However, using parts of an endangered creature to encase technology that is, realistically, obsolete before it is even assembled - mobile tech just moves that fast - is tantamount to selling McDodo Breakfast. Not to mention that you'd have to be really careful where you took it - international law requires you demonstrate your ivory is over 100 years old or it's subject to seizure and destruction. [GT]
Ivory Phone [via Spluch]
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What is the point in them making a phone out of ivory? Thank God there's only 6 in the world, let's hope they spare the elephants and don't make any more.