Get your own Daft Punk helmet... maybe

As far as bands go, Daft Punk is certainly one of the hardest for fans to emulate, with robotic suits and teams of animators unfortunately pretty hard to come by. Those with the dough to spare now have at least one option at their disposal, however, as the manufacturer of the duo's Discovery-era helmets is now offering to sell 'em to you for the hefty price of $65,000 apiece. It's apparently not quite that simple though, as you'll also have to somehow get permission from the band to call the helmets your own. Assuming you manage to do that, you'll then have to wait a whole year for the folks at LED Effects to put one together for you. Of course, you could also go the DIY route - and if you do, be sure to send us some pics.

[Via The Daily Swarm]

[Sowande @ Jun 20th 2007 6:07PM]

That's HOT!!

[McGinley @ Jun 20th 2007 6:23PM]

I seen this last year.Theyve been selling them from that ugly website of theirs.

[GrammarNazi @ Jun 22nd 2007 6:30PM]

You saw this last year...

Sorry, huge peeve.

[McGinley @ Jun 20th 2007 6:47PM]

Have you nothing better to do?

[Henry @ Jun 20th 2007 6:26PM]

Aw man... So cool!

[GrammarTrotskist @ Jun 21st 2007 12:59PM]

You mean "Haven't you anything better to do (with your time)?"

"With your time" is optional, but helps the reader to better understand your point of view as somenoe who was aware of the item in question one (1) year ago and has been checking engadget for updates ever since.

[XSportSeeker @ Jun 20th 2007 7:31PM]

OH HO! Why not spend an amount of money that could buy a motorcycle with a helmet full of leds?
Shure is cool and all... but this is one of those gadgets for hardcore rich fanboys.

[Mathias @ Jun 20th 2007 7:52PM]

From the information on their site: "Unfortunately, these helmets are custom designed stage props and
cost over $14,000."

So it costs you $14,000 to build them, yet you suckers want to charge us $65,000?

[JJ @ Jun 20th 2007 8:12PM]

Capitalism at its best.

[liu yigi @ Jun 21st 2008 7:39AM]

$14.000 to build the frame, daft punk got rights on the design and the LED and circuit's + backpack (witch is the mainframe) + arm controllers...soo $65.000 and a year time to make it...

[Kevin @ Jun 20th 2007 9:03PM]

Their Michel Gondry-directed music video for "Around the World" is still my favorite music video.

[Maxi @ Jun 21st 2007 4:43AM]

surely you could just make your own? I'm a huge fan of Daft Punk and if I had 65k spare and permission from those guys I would buy it. But as I haven't maybe one day I'll make one :P

[tosh @ Jun 21st 2007 11:53AM]

someone needs to tell them it's not techno, it's electro!!!! big difference thanks.

[McGinley @ Jun 21st 2007 1:30PM]

Its house music.Not electro.

[McGinley @ Jun 21st 2007 1:24PM]

I like you guys.

[rockeranimefreak @ Jun 21st 2007 1:09PM]

the smiley face one is cool! the other one .... eh ... not so much.

[Draca @ Jul 26th 2007 12:30AM]

and how do we get daft punks permission? I cant find an address where i can write to them, or an official fan club anywhere! they have a myspace, but im not allowed in there =(

[George @ Dec 8th 2008 12:26AM]

Its French House actually