Bianca Bartz
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I know we’re all getting sick of everything ‘bling’. Gold flake vodka, diamond studded cellphones, $20,000 fancified iPods, platinum sex toys.. It seemed there couldn’t possibly be anything left to kitsch up with gold, glitter, crystals or gems. Trend Hunter has been reluctant to publish any more “bling” articles—we were ready to put our foot down; this wasn’t news anymore. It was getting ancient. Turns out, we were wrong. It seems the one niche that hadn’t been fancified with all things sparkly was the medical industry. You bet, now we have bling medical gadgets, including Respire’s breath-taking bling asthma inhaler case and the 24-carat gold, 220 diamond-crusted hearing aid. “The revolutionary aid means even aging hip hop aficionados, reeling from years of overexposure to deafening bass beats, can get help for their hearing without looking like they are signing up for the blue rinse brigade,” The Wimbledon Guardian couldn’t resist writing about the world’s most expensive hearing aid. “As digital hearing aid technology has advanced wearers have become increasingly proud of the devices and the effects they have on their lives. Combine this with an ever younger age profile for hearing aid wearers and more and more clients advertise the fact they use an aid and even wear them as pieces of jewellery.” Trend Hunter already had an incling that med would go bling a few months ago when we published an article about medic alert bracelets turned fashionable jewelery.
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Opulent Medical Gadgets
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Gold Hearing Aid, Bling Asthma Inhaler
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Fashionable Medical Bracelets
No, this isn't the latest iPod knockoff to come straight from the streets of China; it's actually a rather large (and shiny) hearing aid (with wireless remote). Many people who are hard of hearing try to hide their disability by purchasing the most discreet aid possible. For those that want to show off their ear inadequacy comes this 24-karat gold hearing aid, complete with 220 embedded diamonds by Widex. This bling will set back one disabled individual a deafening $50,000.
Don't confuse this techno-bling with the usual array of swarovski junk plastered all over regular gadgets — this is the real deal. As long as people don't confuse it for a Bluetooth earpiece, you and your fat wallet will easily be the talk of the party.
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| Medical Supplies on Feb 16, 09 0 Trends 3 Comments |
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I was one of the unlucky guys with a low rider in high school with loud subwoofers. Did not think about the hearing loss I would experience from that time period of my life even though I was only around it for 2 years before my brain made the correct choice to stop doing it.
I still find it hard to believe they are making medical equipment for the purpose of displaying how much money you have to waste. During these challenging economic times I'm sure the sales of such devices will drop significantly. |
Medical Supplies on Feb 16, 09 0 Trends 3 Comments
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