The Ultimate Geek Christmas Card 122
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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.'"
Does the hack (Score:1, Interesting)
break the iPhone warranty?
Yours In Petrograd,
Kilgore Trout
Deprecation of the word "geeky" (Score:4, 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.
A real geek christmas card (Score:5, Interesting)
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
to 0xA000