The Ultimate Geek Christmas Card 122
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.'"
Iphones are not very geeky (Score:3, Insightful)
Seems more like an advert (Score:5, Insightful)
why a phone, why not an ipod touch? (Score:2, Insightful)
No, I didn't RTFA, so flame away. But wouldn't a 1st gen touch be cheaper, and do the job?
Cool Idea (Score:3, Insightful)
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.
iPhone geeky? (Score:5, Insightful)
Hrmmmm, time to revoke (Score:5, Insightful)
samzenpus's geek card, if you ask me.
Re:Hint to slashdot editors (Score:3, Insightful)
Seriously (Score:1, Insightful)
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)
Re:A real geek christmas card (Score:3, Insightful)
Meh. I’d be satisfied with a series of LEDs and a shift register set to drive them.
Tag (Score:1, Insightful)
Someone tag this "slashvertisement" because that is all it is.
Re:Wow, you have an iPhone (Score:2, Insightful)
Oh, it's a CNET story. (Score:3, Insightful)
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.
Re:Slow News Day? (Score:3, Insightful)
But, but, but ... it's an Iphone! It's on the Iphone! It's some trivial activity, but it was done with an Iphone, so it's front page news!
You see, it's not a slow news day, it's just that they couldn't find anything else for today's Daily Iphone Slashvertisement.
Anyhow, I approve - best use I've seen for an Iphone.