Goldgenie team up with Rocket man!
Laban Roomes has designed a range of iPods in conjunction with Elton John to help raise awareness and cash for the Elton John AIDS foundation which helps people living with and affected by the HIV virus.
The limited edition iPods went on sale earlier this year and are selling like hot cakes – 12.5% to 20% depending where purchased goes straight to the Elton John AIDS foundation – only 900 world wide available.
Patrons of the EJAF include Mr and Mrs Beckham and Donatalle Versace – 
Goldgenie are also one of the official sponsors of Elton Johns White tie and tiara ball – held each year to raise money for this most worthy of causes – Last year Goldgenie donated 14 gold ipods the likes of which were purchased by Will Smith and Denzel Washington – Each goody bag that these were contained in sold for approx. £20,000
This year Goldgenie donated another 14 ipods for Elton Johns White tie and tiara ball – purchasers unknown as yet!
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Tonight sees the 10th Anniversary White Tie & Tiara Ball in support of the Elton John Aids Foundation. It’s bound to be a special night and it’s an invitation-only do.
As part of our support for the foundation, we’ve teamed up with Micro Anvika to create a (very) limited edition – eleven only! – 8GB gold-plated iPod Nano. You can see one of these extremely rare beauties in the picture below.
We told you last month that Laban would be presenting an award at the prestigious Macworld Awards. Well, it happened and the evening was a great success.
Laban presented the evening’s Grand Prix Award for the best product among all those winning their categories on the evening. Bento by FileMaker took the votes and Laban handed over the special trophy to FileMaker’s Northern Europe Regional Manager, Tony Speakman.
The photo shows Laban backstage before making the presentation. He’s holding the special glass trophy with its gold-plated top expertly added by the Goldgenie team. With Laban in the photo are, from left to right, Richard West (Apple’s UK & Ireland Business Manager, Print & Publishing), Ingrid Kirschner (Apple UK’s Senior Account Executive for Distribution), and Georgina Dias (Apple’s UK & Ireland Product Manager for iPod, TV, Mac mini, and iMac).
You can also watch a 10-minute video of the awards highlights here – look out for Laban from about the 7:05 mark.
I’m sure you’re all watching the latest series of Big Brother on Channel 4. Keep a watchful eye out for the bathroom and shower fittings next time the cameras are in there. No, I’m not suggesting anything kinky! It’s just that you may notice that things sparkle and shine. That’s because Laban and the team were in the house before the new series started gold-plating the bathroom and shower rooms. It was a long job and had to be done in situ. So long, in fact, that when Laban emerged, he said he felt like he’d been a contestant.
Now there’s an idea for the next series!
Goldgenie has a special relationship with all things Apple: our iPod and iPhone range are some of our biggest sellers. The Apple design combined with our gold-plating expertise is always going to produce a winner.
It comes as no surprise, therefore, that the organisers of this year’s Macworld Awards have commissioned Goldgenie to gold-plate one of the awards. What’s more, they want Laban to present the winner with his or her award, too.
The awards take place at the O2 Arena on June 12th. You can find out more about the awards here.
Whether you’re an ardent England football fan or not, you cant’ fail to recognise that David Beckham has been one of the outstanding English football players and personalities of the last ten years. He recently joined an illustrious group of other English players in the 100 caps club when he played in Paris in a friendly against France. This is a great achievement, especially when you realise that David missed a number of games during the time Steve McLaren was in charge of the national side.
We thought it was only appropriate that Goldgenie made some acknowledgement of the player that has been affectionately known as ‘Golden Balls’. So, we teamed up with Micro Anvika and presented his managemnent company with a 32Gb iPod Touch. Gold-plated, of course by us. Here’s a picture of the back.
Important: Please note that we have NEVER sold an ipod with David Beckham’s name on or replicated or tried to replicate the England logo (photoshop) this was a one off piece done as a gift to David especially for the sole purpose of his 100th cap.
