Swarovski crystals: you know what they are? Glass. Chips of glass. Glass with just the right amount of embedded lead to make it sparkle.
Swarovski crystals are not jewels or precious stones of any kind...they are man-made glass. Why must so many things get covered with them, as though they are some true rarity or luxury?
The people doing this to perfectly good gadgets should stop using the sophisticated-sounding "Swarovski Crystal" trademark, and just call it what it is:
HP's Jon Rubenstein told us that his company wanted to veer in a new direction, and veer it surely did -- the HP Veer 4G will arguably be the smallest fully-functional smartphone on the market when it goes on sale May 15th.
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Swarovski crystals: you know what they are? Glass. Chips of glass. Glass with just the right amount of embedded lead to make it sparkle.
Swarovski crystals are not jewels or precious stones of any kind...they are man-made glass. Why must so many things get covered with them, as though they are some true rarity or luxury?
The people doing this to perfectly good gadgets should stop using the sophisticated-sounding "Swarovski Crystal" trademark, and just call it what it is:
Bedazzling.
They Bedazzled a TV. That's what they did.
http://www.mybedazzler.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bedazzler