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Ultimate iPhone Review — Will It Blend?
I've been enjoying the Will it Blend videos forever. There's something about a labcoat clad crazy man putting things like marbles and soda cans into a blender and after reducing them to powder, warning you not to breathe in the particles. Well today they ask the ultimate question of the latest over-hyped internet sensation
Will the iPhone Blend? Fans of these videos can probably guess the answer... and this story made my morning. I've been waiting for an excuse to link these forever. If you haven't seen these, you're in for a real treat.
I've been breathing that stuff for a while and nothing has ha *THUD*
(he wouldn't just type thud, would he?)
(maybe he was dictating)
(oh shut up)
Looks like the server has been blended as well. :)
It's pieces of the iPhone's evil, black heart.
Sure the innovative and groundbreaking iPhone will change the face of blending forever. Never before could you blend a full featured implementation of Apple's award winning Safari browser.
Three Squirrels
Did you get to the section where they blend frogs and gerbils?? ...
(ok ok, I was only kidding. Stop with that look on your face!)
"Give orange me give eat orange me eat orange give me eat orange give me you." -Nim Chimpsky
The real spoiler is in the slow motion bit. Listen closely & you can distinctly hear the iphone death cry 'Khaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan'.
iPhone. The Shatner of cell phones.
There are shills on slashdot. Apparently, I'm one of them.
... that I have never before seen anything so awesome in my entire life.
Moon landing? Berlin Wall? Not even close.
Totally... frickin'... sweet.
Misery loves company. Online misery loves unsuspecting random strangers.
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Do you know I watched this on my Windows Mobile phone and seems to have broken it the video just keeps looping over and over I'm not certain but I think the "happy" midi tune plays every now and again
I like how it says "Product: iPhone Condition: Used" :)
As well as being fun, its an amazing ad for the company, everything they but into their blenders ends up as toxic dust!!!
Yes, because I really want my spaghetti sauce to become toxic dust. I think I'll take a blender that doesn't make everything toxic.
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No, it just spews a black cloud of overrated whenever the marketing hype wire in the iphone is severed.
Well, back to rejecting software patent applications.
I felt a great disturbance in the intertubes, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. I fear something terrible has happened.
Heh it says "Condition: used". I'm sure it's only slightly scratched.
After recently purchasing a $85 blender that bit the dust on a box of frozen strawberries, this is just the kind of advertising I appreciate right now.
Under the influence of Post-Cyberpunk Gonzo Journalism
"We found the Holy Grail"
it blends
"Cure for cancer"
blend it
"Kids, in this cage is the last living mouse lemur on Earth."
where's that outlet?
If Slashdot were chemistry it would look like this:Cadaverine
Well that's as maybe, but its the ultimate review for *that* particular iPhone!
1913 Webster definition of ultimate is rather apropos:
3. Incapable of further analysis; incapable of further
division or separation; constituent; elemental; as, an
ultimate particle; an ultimate constituent of matter.
[1913 Webster]
Can they blend one of their own blenders? Wow, meta headrush.
If you were blocking sigs, you wouldn't have to read this.
Amazingly, the dust still had to be sent to Apple to get the battery out.
Good god, that's one expensive smoothie! Have to admit, though, it put up a pretty good fight in those first few whacks!
-50 DKP for lame post!
It's cheaper than the standard backlighting, easier on your battery, environmentally friendly, and is super quiet (except for the occasional barely-discernible "mew!" at startup). Now if it weren't for all those damned moralists out there, I could have one of those 25" LCD's that're augmented by kitten ash that the State Department refuses to import! Sure, color calibration is a bitch (cats are somewhat color-blind), but once it's all set up, you get a peaceful soft glow that is very easy on the wattage.
(seriously though - I think it's prolly the battery contents, which could be reacting with either a metal or some other subtstance in the iPhone's makeup.).
(...and yes, I own and use a Mac @ home).
(...and yes, I have two cats living @ home with me. Whether they fear me or I fear them - I leave up to you to decide).
Quo usque tandem abutere, Nimbus, patientia nostra?
And in case the PP didn't get it, the iphone ends up as toxic dust because it is made of toxic dry materials. If you just put a piece of wood in, you'd end up with ordinary (not toxic) dust, and if you put spaghetti sauce in you won't end up with any kind of dust unless you use a lot less water than normal people do.
We've secretly replaced Slashdot with new Folgers Crystals - let's see if it notices.
Fun? I was, actually, rather revolted... It always saddens me, when things break irreparably. I once felt depressed for a week after accidentally dropping an old hard-drive on the floor — it worked before, but broke due to my sloppiness...
To do this sort of thing on purpose, with a shiny, new (and beautiful!) piece of high-tech electronics is a sin. To enjoy watching it is perverse, in my humble opinion...
In Soviet Washington the swamp drains you.
- I think that voids the warranty.
- I don't think Apple will replace the battery on that one.
- So now they are stuck with a 2 year AT&T plan and don't even have an iPhone.
Lars T.
To the guy who modded me down from perfect to terrible Karma - Apple haters still suck
They could ask for a refund or replacement claiming the screen scratches too easily.
The world is made by those who show up for the job.
That depends, do they make Klein Blenders?
I'm guessing you're just jealous he blended an iPhone when you don't have one.
Maybe Slashdot should be: News for Nerds, Stuff that shatters?
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If that is the case, I would suggest buying spaghetti sauce that doesn't contain any toxins to start with; I hear that really cuts down on the amount of toxic dust produced. Of course the sauces that DO contain concentrated toxins are generally priced much lower than the higher quality ones that contain only food grade ingredients. But it's really up to the consumer if they want to save that extra .50 cents or not...
"But this one goes to 11!"
He just told you that so he could 'examine' your prostate. =D
Minor clarification: The fully assembled skyscraper would also be harmful if you inhaled it.
And if you DO get them packed in metal, just use a Blendtec blender. Yes, It Blends!
In Repressive Burma, it's not just your connection that dies. slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=314547&cid=20819199
The stick up your ass: will it blend?
Done with slashdot, done with nerds, getting a life.
I feel fantastic, and I'm still alive.
It's just kool-aid.