The process of TiN utilizes some hardcore chemistry concepts to coat objects like luxury watches, drill bits and aircraft blades. Well, what happens when you treat a regular old iPhone in this manner? It ends up looking insanely great, and it's all thanks to the full black body with no contrasting panels, as well as another mod that swanks around with classy gold accents. Tasty. Checkout the gallery below for shots of the masterpiece, as well as the humango-normous equipment employed to reach the final splendid affect. Update: Paul Knight is the man behind the great work, better still the mods are up for sale. Jump in for a shot of the gold iPhone in all its glory.

The iPhone Custom, as it has been dubbed, has a gold TiN Apple logo and a black TiA1N black front covering, which we understand to be a variant of the TiN process we so excellently describe below. The back covers were replaced with black anodized aluminum to eliminate the contrast between the antenna cover and the usual silver colored backing. Another project involved a more minimalist black logo, either way, they look stunning. How was it all done? Why, it's the magic of TiN:

TiN is applied using a plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition tool, and now we will attempt to explain what that means: There is a block of titanium placed in mahoosive machine similar to the one you saw above, nitrogen gas is flowed in, plasma is formed, things get ridiculously fast, atoms get embroiled in a turf war and fallen atoms end up providing the basis for the amazing coating. What does that mean? We have no idea; we were paraphrasing, our limited education only got us so far in high school. Fortunately, we know a spanking gorgeous iPhone when we see pictures of it, and the iPhone Custom is the best example we have seen to date. No figures were thrown about, but the mods were said to cost "a lot of $," which pretty much means we cannot afford it. We still want. We really, really, really want. Oh, our want hurts so bad. [Gigapascal via gen[m]ay]