The Company Behind Ugly Gold Phones Is Now Making Ugly Gold Smart Glasses
Caviar, a company known for creating expensive gold-covered phones, has released a new product called Odyssey, a pair of Ray-Ban Meta AI smart glasses covered in 24-karat gold. The Odyssey smart glasses are priced at $6,840, with a less expensive silver version available for $6,130. Both versions come with a genuine alligator skin case and are limited to only 24 pieces, making them a unique and exclusive product for the wealthy.
- ▪Caviar's Odyssey smart glasses are a gold-covered version of the Ray-Ban Meta AI glasses.
- ▪The Odyssey smart glasses are priced at $6,840, with a silver version available for $6,130.
- ▪Only 24 pieces of the Odyssey smart glasses will be made, each coming with a genuine alligator skin case.
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Smart glasses have enjoyed quite a few rites of passage this year. There’s been widespread backlash and prohibition, Kardashian-adjacent endorsements with glitzy ad campaigns, and Lorde got in on the action to say, “… f*ck the glasses.” Even with all of that, the landmarks aren’t done quite yet—there’s still some juice in the smart glasses going mainstream tank, and this particular flavor of juice is full of garish gold…
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