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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. Iphones are not very geeky by moep · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I remember a friend of mine signing a birthday card with a handwritten gnupgp signature ... thats geeky those fancy fanboy phones are not.

  2. Seems more like an advert by thetoadwarrior · · Score: 4, Insightful

    This article (and the cnet one to be fair) seems more like an advert for for a boring little iPhone app.

    1. Re:Seems more like an advert by wizardforce · · Score: 5, Funny

      Indeed. There's no real skill involved in the making of this "geek card" either. Looking at the title you'd expect to see a story about some geek building the thing from scratch and programming it to do whatever task was required. Instead we get two links about some random app with the Iphone glued to a piece of cardboard. The thing looks like a crafts project for the local elementary school.

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  3. Wow, you have an iPhone by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    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)

  4. Re:Assuming that... by ObsessiveMathsFreak · · Score: 4, Funny

    But it is a potentially explosive device

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  5. iPhone geeky? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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.

  6. Deprecation of the word "geeky" by fliptout · · Score: 3, Interesting

    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.

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  7. 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. Re:Hint to slashdot editors by countSudoku() · · Score: 4, Funny

      Indeed! And it sounds like it's just duct taped onto the back of the card. Some hack. I'm so inspired I'm gonna "hack" the bottom of a movie theater popcorn container and then when the mood is just right... I'll offer some to my date. Damn, I'm smooth!

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  8. 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.

  9. Hrmmmm, time to revoke by Overzeetop · · Score: 4, Insightful

    samzenpus's geek card, if you ask me.

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  10. A real geek christmas card by bl8n8r · · Score: 4, Interesting

    would have:
    - 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
    - ..and when you open it, it would play the screeching noise you
    get out of your pc speaker when you accidentally dump core
    to 0xA000

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  11. 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.

  12. Next week on some 'news' site... by fridaynightsmoke · · Score: 4, Funny

    "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.
    SPONSORED LINK: Get your amazing super-hip iPhone HERE"

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