Python skin-covered HOON headphones likely to get PETA in an uproar

French accessories company HOON has teamed up with audio company The Perfect Unison for a line of python skin skinned headphones. The cans are made of nine layers of birch wood, lined with goat skin, and finally covered in the skin of a mighty snake for the ultimate, luxurious audiophile experience. The ear pieces are made of hand-varnished carbon fibers, presumably because the beaks of dodo birds were unavailable. These high-tech, beastly beauties will run you €1,160.00 (roughly $1,650) should you choose to make them yours.

[Via ChipChick]

[paul34 @ Jul 1st 2009 8:26PM]

Save the planet, kill yourself.

[nowayman @ Jul 1st 2009 9:00PM]

second!

[Goat Law @ Jul 1st 2009 9:09PM]

Save society, kill a PETA member.

[sacapuntas @ Jul 1st 2009 9:12PM]

PETA= People Eating Tasty Animals ???

[Information Central @ Jul 1st 2009 10:54PM]

WRONG! Save a toddler, kill a python.

If they made these things in Florida, they could be $100.

http://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSTRE56067K20090701

[Louis @ Jul 1st 2009 11:42PM]

If you're feeling down and out with what your life is all about, lift your head up high and blow your brains out!

[James @ Jul 2nd 2009 1:48AM]

Actually Florida is starting to become overrun with pythons so if they are going to start killing off an invasive species why not use part of them for something?

[Nikesh @ Jul 2nd 2009 3:46AM]

It would be one thing if these guys we using snake skins to make the headphones look awesome, but they look stupid. I wouldn't be caught dead with these on my head.

[Nikesh @ Jul 2nd 2009 3:46AM]

It would be one thing if these guys were using snake skins to make the headphones look awesome, but they look stupid. I wouldn't be caught dead with these on my head.

[Aaron @ Jul 2nd 2009 6:48AM]

Save a horse, ride a Cowboy?

[miko34 @ Jul 1st 2009 8:28PM]

I bet it sssssssssssssssoundssssss bad too.

[Rob @ Jul 1st 2009 8:43PM]

I see what you did there.

[Ridgecity @ Jul 1st 2009 9:27PM]

if those are the actual headphones, they must be using some of the most symmetrical reticulated python skins EVER!

it's almost as if they have never seen a real snake...

[tekdroid @ Jul 1st 2009 8:29PM]

Chennheiser drivers. 10,000% mark-up. Discomfort Plus Plus.

[Dan @ Jul 2nd 2009 12:29AM]

Covering electronics in exotic leather is just asking for some kind of subculture I don't think anyone wants.

[dsteve303 @ Jul 1st 2009 8:31PM]

Are they gunna make a C++ covered version?

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[chris @ Jul 1st 2009 8:41PM]

No, but they come in Ruby!

[boot2skull @ Jul 1st 2009 9:07PM]

Badum bum, tss! :D

[Cheesus(Crust) @ Jul 1st 2009 8:46PM]

Haha nice one!

[vectorelement @ Jul 1st 2009 9:51PM]

HAHA! Seconded. Awesome.

[Information Central @ Jul 1st 2009 10:55PM]

They have a pimped-out version that's adorned with perls.

[Zune Claus @ Jul 1st 2009 8:34PM]

If someone makes one more "ssssssssss" joke, I will kill an endangered whale.

[commenting @ Jul 1st 2009 8:38PM]

Pffft, cool your jets! SO far, only one ssssssss-joke has been made. Geez, you only give us a one-foul chance before you kill the whale?

[paul34 @ Jul 1st 2009 8:40PM]

Absolutely. Clubbing baby seals has gone out of style. Endangered whales are all the rage these days.

[Gi @ Jul 1st 2009 9:13PM]

sssssssssmoooth

[sacapuntas @ Jul 1st 2009 10:23PM]

@Gi

ssssssuple

[Intrepid @ Jul 1st 2009 11:31PM]

Are you Japanese? Or are you Norwegian?

[MegaBite @ Jul 2nd 2009 2:01AM]

Well, right about that time people, a fur trapper, who was strictly from commercial, had the unmitigated audacity to jump up from behind my ig-a-loo and start a-whippin on my favorite baby seal with a lead-filled snowshoe.

[Newone @ Jul 2nd 2009 3:53AM]

Thar she blows, another joke whiner

[Zune Claus @ Jul 1st 2009 8:36PM]

lol I thought of that too.

[Zune Claus @ Jul 1st 2009 8:36PM]

I meant to reply to dsteve303 -_-

[Valicore @ Jul 1st 2009 8:37PM]

LOL That's incredibly lame. If you can't make a good product put some dead animal skin on it and add a zero to the pricetag... sounds like a plan! Oh, by the way, PETA is much to busy working on the plight of the flys at the moment.

[LameDuck @ Jul 1st 2009 8:42PM]

I'll take 20. Along with a whole BBQed cow, duck, pig, one of every edible bird, and a salad.

[LameDuck @ Jul 1st 2009 8:44PM]

I'll do ANYTHING to piss PEDO-er... PETA off.

[Nelson @ Jul 1st 2009 9:10PM]

What's the big deal about PETA? Why should People Eating Tasty Animals care about this?

[crsh @ Jul 1st 2009 10:35PM]

Salad? You murderer! Think of those living, breathing vegetables!

[Joe Pemberton @ Jul 1st 2009 8:45PM]

Python, birch, goat. All are perfectly renewable/sustainable materials.

[10minutehobo @ Jul 2nd 2009 7:52AM]

+1 to you, sir.

[niravp14 @ Jul 3rd 2009 2:49AM]

you are blessed with a great sense of humor , what if tomorrow we have no animals should we go for human meat and skin also since it is also renewable and biodegradable ? sir u are in a notion that humans are advancing but see things behind the scene , we are going back to stone age [less brain more instinct] , killing for survival or pleasure ? , behind our tuxedo we all are like animals [no mercy]

[insky @ Jul 1st 2009 8:45PM]

I bet they still kill less animals for these than PETA does.

[mcdizzle895 @ Jul 1st 2009 8:47PM]

luckily that prohibitive price tag means that there won't be many other snakes, or goats dying on account of these cans.

[Excelsium @ Jul 1st 2009 8:55PM]

weak sauce, you could do something better for $160 without killing stuff :).

[Charles R Hamilton @ Jul 1st 2009 8:55PM]

Fuck PETA.

[Vexorg @ Jul 1st 2009 8:55PM]

At least your Ted Nugent albums should sound good on these.

[Agent .25i @ Jul 1st 2009 10:34PM]

nice

[Trevor @ Jul 1st 2009 8:57PM]

I, for one, am a proud member of People for the Eating of Tasty Animals.

[The Mad Mule @ Jul 1st 2009 9:02PM]

Imagine the sssilibance on these!

But in all seriousness, it's a stupid concept.

[Alex @ Jul 1st 2009 9:05PM]

And by uproar, you mean hissy fit.

(Get it, because of snakes?)

[iFargle @ Jul 1st 2009 9:10PM]

I genuinely LOL'd at the title of this article.

[The Avatar @ Jul 1st 2009 10:24PM]

Harry Potter just came.