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The Ultimate Geek Christmas Card
An anonymous reader writes "CNET reports on the world's most geeky Christmas card, and also the most expensive. The card is made out of a 1st gen iPhone, hacked into a Christmas card using cardboard, paper and glue. The card includes a virtual 'bauble' which uses the iPhone's accelerometer to recreate Christmas decorations that bounce and move with the card. The makers of the card say that because of the iPhone's battery life 'you probably don't want to post it anywhere it will take more than 3 days to arrive.'"
> you probably don't want to post it anywhere it will take more than 3 days to arrive
Assuming that it makes through the postal system and that it is not flagged as some kind of potentially explosive devise ! ;-))
Everything I write is lies, read between the lines.
break the iPhone warranty?
Yours In Petrograd,
Kilgore Trout
There are cheaper ways of saying "Merry Christmas" to the postman.
In b4 Google makes an Android Christmas card
Of all the things to post about, and we get stories on how to waste technology? Insert joke about the phone having a 'paperweight mode' here...
Odi profanum vulgus et arceo
I remember a friend of mine signing a birthday card with a handwritten gnupgp signature ... thats geeky those fancy fanboy phones are not.
If you think the battery life sucks, wait till you get to the roaming charges.
Bah humbug.
Yes, just pop it right into the mailbox.
This article (and the cnet one to be fair) seems more like an advert for for a boring little iPhone app.
No, I didn't RTFA, so flame away. But wouldn't a 1st gen touch be cheaper, and do the job?
Dude, you used an iPhone, that is definitely such a geek thing to do. Because there is nothing else on the planet that could possibly make you a geek more than an iPhone; geeks are cool.
(Fuckwits)
Interesting and innovative!
This actually seems like a great way to give someone an iphone or touch for Christmas - way cooler than just leaving it in the standard box. Plus since you'll have already charged it up it's ready to go right away.
Sure beats the hell out of those damn annoying cards that just play music.
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
Since when is the iPhone "geeky"? It's mainstream AND against any software developer who needs an open environment to create and run applications. So it's an anti-geek christmas card.
So, anything remotely involving technology is considered geeky these days. I'm sure lots of people would be tickled to receive an iphone Christmas card, but the only hack involved is creating the actual paper card part.
In the past, I've made birthday "cards" with PICs and monochrome LCDs. Now that is geeky.
A witty saying proves you are wittier than the next guy.
if the hack doesn't actually involve fabricating or soldering, then it's not really a hack worthy of the front page.
The inside writing?
"Imaging a Beowulf cluster of these"
Who would win this election: Andrew Weiner vs Andrew Weiner's weiner.
Most Valuable Christmas Card The most valuable Christmas card was sold at an auction in Devizes, Wiltshire, UK in 2001 for $20,000. The card was hand-colored by illustrator John Calcott Horsley. The card was originally sent by Sir Henry Cole of Bath to his grandmother in 1843.
samzenpus's geek card, if you ask me.
Is it just my observation, or are there way too many stupid people in the world?
Is there an "ohnoitssamzenpus" tag yet? There should be, every story he posts is awful.
Sturgeon was an optimist.
There's an app for that.
would have: ... ..and when you open it, it would play the screeching noise you
- matrix screensaver on the the front
- 20-project electronics kit on the left inside flap
- "happy holidays" would start with: 48h 41h 50h 50h 59h
- picture of the original star trek cast (with Redshirts)
- it would have a blue led on it that works as a flashlite
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get out of your pc speaker when you accidentally dump core
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This is by no means the world's most expensive Christmas card. That would be an 1843 carddesigned by English painter JC Horsley, commissioned by Sir Henry Cole, an English businessman who modernized the postal system. Only 1000 were made, and only a handful survive. One was recently auctioned for £22,250.
More info here.
"Some bloke has made another tedious iPhone app: iWank.
Using the iPhones cool features such as the unique touchscreen and accelerometer, you can literally wank Steve Jobs to orgasm. Simply make the appropriate motion with the iPhone, and see a naked Jobs on the screen. His expression changes according to the speed and rhythm of the motion. To finish the job, simply rub the on screen impression of Jobs' tumescent empurpled member and watch him ejaculate.
There have been rumours of a 'cheat mode', where Jobs can ejaculate in seconds after the user inputs a URL leading to another iPhone PR stunt on some news site. Apple has refused to comment.
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Why does Slashdot keep posting these dumb CNET UK stories?
Anyone want to help me start up a "cnetispants" tag?
I'm getting a bit sick of this site being one big rolling advert for a certain fruity multinational company and occasional OS developer.
It'd be absolutely fantastic to have a day, no in fact maake it a WEEK where it gets not one mention.
IANBG (work it out)
Why isn't this in idle, he loaded an app onto an iphone and tapped it to some cardboard drawn on with crayons, I don't think it counts as Hardware.
I just took an ordinary Christmas card and stapled a cheque for 23 grand inside it. Pwnd.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
Someone tag this "slashvertisement" because that is all it is.
About all ANY iPhone is good for!!!!!
Just because there's a battery powered object in it doesn't mean it's geeky. Hardware hacking involves a little bit more than just cardboard, paper and glue. The whole 'hack' here is "Cut a hole in the card, put your iPhone in the card, make her open the card".
A true hardware geek would be ashamed to own up to this kind of cheap hack. Leaving the whole thing running on battery power non-stop while it's in the mail is just painful. To do the job right you would have to remove the case, fit the LCD panel properly into the card frame, add a switch to keep the whole thing powered off until you pull it out of the envelope, and probably do a little firmware hacking to ensure that the display is up and running the moment it powers up. For bonus marks, source your hardware somewhere other than the Apple store and save yourself about a hundred bucks.
But then again it's a CNET article. You can't expect too much.
An iPhone, plus contract, plus a bunch of apps, movies and songs, could easily be worth more than £22,250.
Ok, I gotta ask...who gets roaming charges on an iPHone? I mean, the unlimited data plan has never been upcharged when I've traveled, and I've been driving all around, and I've seen the 'roaming signal' but, again...nothing extra on my phone bill from this, I could swear the plan said free roaming too??
Is this maybe just in some countries other than the US?
Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.........
This isn't taking advantage of using an iPhone; it could just as well used an iPod Touch.
A real geek card using an iPhone would have modulated the GSM carrier so that the nearest speaker would buzz to the tune of a Christmas carol.
Wanted to beat that bloke senseless by the end of that. I know I was bored, but I figured a "geeky" card might have been interesting. Thoroughly dissappointed (should I have expected anything different, I don't really consider having an iPhone in the least bit geeky)
# cat
Damn, my RAM is full of cats. MEOW!!
I went to the local newsagency and bought a whole SHEET of cardboard, then cut out the middle and drew christmas trees and smiley faces, and stuck it around my computer monitor. Then I navigated to a web site with christmas imagery and video and stuff. I brought my wife in and said MERRY CHRISTMAS from your geeky husband. It didn't impress her. I didn't get any. In fact she wants me to see a nice doctor tomorrow, who's going to give me a free special white jacket. I don't understand! No one appreciates geeks!
(By the way I used a NOVILLIUM Entel i7, a DemVidia 240GX video card, a Pell monitor, and cardboard by the Cardboardmen. You should buy them because they're much cooler than an iPhone. This advert was sponsored by the letter F and the number 2)
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Be fair though, everyone knows that before Apple came along with this Iphone card, no one was able to send Christmas cards to each other. Sure, Christmas cards existed, but but - well Apple did it better, in a way that I can't actually explain, so therefore it is Apple who invented and popularised the Christmas card.
In fact, even Christmas as we know it wouldn't exist without the Jesus phone.
Therefore it's as newsworthy as every other Daily Iphone story we get here on Iphonedot.