Douglas Little's Adamo series: the most expensive snake you've seen glued to a laptop all week

While Dell's partnerships with MLB and OPI are content with merely printing new designs onto the laptop lid, creative director Douglas Little of D.L. & Co. took things a lot too far with this Swarovski Crystal-embedded sterling silver snake -- adorning an etched Adamo 13 lid. We can't decide if we're offended by the gaudy display, or incredibly impressed with how audacious it is, so we'll just leave our mouths hanging open and let you decide for yourself. What we do know is that it's part of a series of one-offs produced for Bergdorf Goodman retail in some capacity, and we're sure with a bit of recession-style haggling you should have no trouble squeezing one of these onto a second mortgage.

Douglas Little's Adamo series: the most expensive snake you've seen glued to a laptop this week

[N900 Posted Oct 7th 2009 3:23PM]

Wow!

[Eternity Posted Oct 7th 2009 3:32PM]

Snake!!!!!!!!! Snake!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[ArhcAngel Posted Oct 7th 2009 3:48PM]

It needs an apple with a couple of bites out of it tacked on there. Of course that would be trademark infringement so you'll have to add it aftermarket.

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 7th 2009 3:52PM]

The headline says it all. Nice job.

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 7th 2009 3:56PM]

You mean like "Wow!! That is disgusting."

[TikiTeko Posted Oct 7th 2009 4:09PM]

I hope they sell the bag for that laptop....

[dodo Posted Oct 7th 2009 4:47PM]

It's that a snake on your laptop, or are you just happy to see me?

[DirtyVegas Posted Oct 7th 2009 5:02PM]

Can't believe no one said this yet "Snakes on a plain(laptop)!!!!"

[Kennykenken Posted Oct 7th 2009 7:57PM]

Looks like Voltron took a nice shiny dump on it.

[NikAmi Posted Oct 7th 2009 10:18PM]

It looks like Voldemort splooged on this guy's laptop.

[appsman Posted Oct 7th 2009 10:42PM]

Even though Swarovsky looks like a pretty cheesy company in its own right (judging only from the cr@p they show on their website), I think they (and Dell) REALLY need to enforce some sort of "terms of service" on their customers. Mindless garbage on this scale can do serious damage to every company associated with it. I'm for freedom and the "first sale" doctrine, and all that, but is it really legal to paste a turd on a Dell laptop and still call it a Dell? Somehow I bet Apple could find a way to stop this. (and I'm NOT trying to turn this into an Apple thread)

[theswiss Posted Oct 7th 2009 3:24PM]

expensive crap hanging out on another expensive crap .. holy crap !

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 9th 2009 10:56AM]

it looks like megatron took a shit on a perfectly good laptop

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 7th 2009 3:25PM]

If I had a third hand... I'd give it three thumbs down.

[COCOViper Posted Oct 7th 2009 3:25PM]

It looks like a pile of crystal crap...literally.

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 7th 2009 7:24PM]

Looks like? It is!

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 7th 2009 3:26PM]

give "tacky" a new meaning.

[ImDaIllest Posted Oct 7th 2009 5:54PM]

Looks like a piece of shit, literally!... embedded with crystals.

[MarcusMaximus Posted Oct 7th 2009 3:26PM]

Douglas Little's Adamo, any relation to a certain hilarious and brilliant author?

[ArhcAngel Posted Oct 7th 2009 3:44PM]

What ever you do

Don't Panic

[saturnblackhole Posted Oct 7th 2009 3:26PM]

it completely ruins the original purpose of dell's laptop. it was suppose to be thin and light

[barry99705 Posted Oct 7th 2009 3:35PM]

That.... thing, would ruin anything it touches.

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 7th 2009 3:27PM]

That looks like a crystal turd.

[NewL Posted Oct 7th 2009 3:29PM]

Yeah, that's not both stupid and tasteless AT ALL.

Best buy one of those snake-modded Vertu atrocities to go with that Adamo, and you'll look like the biggest idiot in the whole wide world.

http://tech2.in.com/media/images/img_1198_vertu-boucheron-signature-python.jpg

Ugh.

[jon Posted Oct 7th 2009 3:30PM]

This is what's wrong with new money.

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 7th 2009 3:30PM]

Looks like someone went a little too wild with the glue gun and bedazzler.

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 7th 2009 7:56PM]

Can i just say that was the funnest thing i read today, thank you.

[KAL326 Posted Oct 7th 2009 3:31PM]

Hinges failing in 3....2....1.....

[ch3burashka Posted Oct 7th 2009 3:32PM]

Now only if it was studded with Swarovski crystals...

[PerryAJ Posted Oct 7th 2009 3:33PM]

Man, that hideous thing represents much of what I find screwed up in the world today. Gaudy, overpriced superficial crap. People who pay for stuff like that deserve to get kicked square in the nuts.

[barry99705 Posted Oct 7th 2009 3:36PM]

Then have them removed so they don't reproduce materialistic douche bag kids.

[Flaystus Posted Oct 7th 2009 3:36PM]

I'd be more interested in what Douglas Adams Adamo looked like.

[astrodemoniac Posted Oct 7th 2009 3:36PM]

I'm sorry, WHAT THE FUCK is that? o_0

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 7th 2009 3:40PM]

But will it make my dookie sparkle...?

[Matej Bajan Posted Oct 7th 2009 3:41PM]

Great job, Dell! That's what everybody wanted, a super-exclusive Adamo!

...

Oh, wait. We wanted the price to be actually *lower*...Sigh...

[Teer1998 Posted Oct 7th 2009 3:41PM]

Anyone who would want this POS would have no need for a computer in the first place. I'm ready for the whole computer as art/accessory thing to die and fast.
What ever happened to throwing a few quippy stickers on a laptop to be punk?

This could be the worst thing that has ever happened to a computer. Someone please think of something worse so I can erase the image of this turd from my brain...

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 7th 2009 3:47PM]

Barbie and her dog glued to the top, along with varying fashion accessories for the season. They are all made of gold and diamond, of course. The puppy sun cap in white gold is to die for.

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 7th 2009 5:25PM]

A holographic replaying of 2Girls1Cup when you press a button on the top?

That horrible enough for you?

P.S - If you don't know what I am talking about, don't try to find out. DON'T. Just take my word for it. It's much worse.

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 7th 2009 3:43PM]

Too slimy.

But if they offered one with an armadillo instead of a snake I'd buy it.

Ed

[TikiTeko Posted Oct 7th 2009 4:17PM]

I would not doubt that DELL could add that feature to their customization page:

To Add Luxury to your life and computing you can choose among the following designs to sit on top of your new Adamo:

* Swarovski Crystal-embedded sterling silver Snake ($1350)

* Swarovski Crystal-embedded sterling silver Swirling Poop ($2560)

* Swarovski Crystal-embedded sterling silver Blue Whale Condom ($8900) - Exclusive from DELL!

[crescentdavid Posted Oct 7th 2009 3:45PM]

That is so goddamn ugly only a pretentious, know-nothing, too-much-money-to-spend, white upper class twit, would buy it. Cocoviper got it right ... it's literally a piece of shiny sh*t.

[Solid Gray Fox Posted Oct 7th 2009 3:55PM]

I have to agree with you dude! I honestly believe Douglas Little is compensating for his own ugliness here, the ginger hair, weird beard and the ironically over-sized glasses that are meant to divert our attention from his fugliness, it's only fitting he'd create such a piece of crap to further divert attention from that f****ed up face. I'm sorry but thrusting such a monstrosity on the world deserves a level of personal attack; so called 'artists' like this need to be called out because they thrive in a world of mediocrity and yes men where people around such people are incapable or unwilling to say no to them. It's these people that are satisfied with their cushy lifestyles and cushy jobs that make mediocre decisions and try to pass them off as something we should behold in awe. These are the type of people are what's wrong with this world. While I can appreciate the craftsmanship, art this is not, I do believe this guy has managed to polish an allegorical turd.

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 7th 2009 5:39PM]

Huh? Sean "P Diddy" Combs isn't white.

[1 Posted Oct 7th 2009 6:40PM]

Any premiership footballer. (sorry, soccer player for you:P)

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 7th 2009 3:47PM]

ALL of you have it wrong.

The snake gives you 4 GB more of RAM

and

Increases your processor power by 60%

oh yeah and better wifi signal !

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 7th 2009 7:24PM]

What is it, made by Honda?

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 7th 2009 4:07PM]

How does something this ridiculous even get past the drafting stage?

[DaHarder Posted Oct 7th 2009 3:51PM]

Who... In their right mind could find this remotely (aesthetically) pleasing?

The darned 'snake' chain is thicker than the laptop itself!

[traceroute Posted Oct 7th 2009 3:51PM]

You need to work for SPECTRE to be able to pull using that notebook off.

[Samurai Jack Posted Oct 7th 2009 3:52PM]

Buy this only if you want to prove to the world you have a serious case of penis envy...