Sure, you can slather your smartphone (or even not-s0-smartphone) with all manner of precious metals and cover in obscene displays of bejeweled wealth, but come one, do those gaudy, tasteless handsets look any better than their “before” pictures? Hardly. The point of those tacky monstrosities isn’t to show off your “style” or how “cool” your handset is. The point is to advertise to the world that you spent more on your mobile phone than many people do on their cars.
Suffice it to say that I’m not a fan of overly expensive case-modifications. Or, at least I wasn’t until I saw this incredible case mod for the iPhone. What you see here is the iPhone custom. Through some crazy expensive plasma-deposition technology, Paul Knight
created the iPhone custom by coating the iPhone casing with a layer of TiN and TiAlN (Titanium-Nitrogen, and Titanium-Aluminum-Nitrogen) through a process known as “plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition.”
What you get is an anodized iPhone casing (matte black to match the black plastic cover) and an Apple logo finished in the TiN or TiAlN (via that complex plasma deposition process we just mentioned). The TiN coating gives the Apple logo a shiny Gold presence, while the TiAlN coating gives the logo an understated, stealthy look.
Both versions of the iPhone Custom look good enough to sell your soul for. Now, we just have to get that second mortgage started…
[Via: MacMod]