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The Ultimate Geek Christmas Card

Posted by samzenpus on from the when-you-care-to-send-the-geekiest dept.

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.'"

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  1. Hint to slashdot editors by joeflies · · Score: 5, Informative

    if the hack doesn't actually involve fabricating or soldering, then it's not really a hack worthy of the front page.

    1. Re:Hint to slashdot editors by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

      if the hack doesn't actually involve fabricating or soldering, then it's not really a hack.

       
      Fixed that for you.

  2. Guinness Book disagrees about this by qazwer00 · · Score: 3, Informative

    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.

  3. Not even close to the most expensive. by Lemmy+Caution · · Score: 4, Informative

    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.