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Fake Friday: iPhone Phorgery
Today's lame iPhone Phorgery is brought to you by youtube.com, vendor of many things mythical, unsightly or worse. In today's video, feast your eyes upon a novel-looking phone extension that appears to exist in only two dimensions, much as Zod (kneel before him!) was trapped in that whole Superman II thing. Hate the sounds. Hate the font. After factoring in imagination points, today's TUAW forgery score is 3.5 out of 10, with a severe 1.5 from the East German judge.
What do you think TUAWians? How do you Rate The Fake?
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Leonard Nimrod said 9:15AM on 11-10-2006
Unlike most fakes we see here this one doesn't seem to be passing itself off as a real item. It looks more like the creator was using the Apple Remote and some imagination --despite the odd use of a harp-- from a Philip K. Dick novel.
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Sherman Homan said 9:18AM on 11-10-2006
It is fake, but accurate.
Signed,
Dan Rather
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Norman said 9:22AM on 11-10-2006
Don't like it. Full Ack about sound, font. And it's not very well done.
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bryan said 9:47AM on 11-10-2006
looks real to me!
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mapin said 9:51AM on 11-10-2006
haha that's awesome !! 2-dimensional holographic iPhone next Tuesday !!
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bl8ant said 10:12AM on 11-10-2006
über-lame. so über-lame that i think it was made by somebody who uses a PC.
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Bill said 10:13AM on 11-10-2006
A clever idea, if unbelievable. 6.0.
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Anthony808 said 10:35AM on 11-10-2006
Apple's new Phantom Zone Phone... the ZONE.
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MLO said 10:39AM on 11-10-2006
GUIs are super-slow in the future!
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anon said 10:42AM on 11-10-2006
You really don't get more lame than using the German word "uber" ahead of the word "lame", except maybe saying something is "uber-duber lame".
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tick said 11:25AM on 11-10-2006
don't understand all the hatin'. The sounds are obnoxious and the UI was made to look incredibly slow, but the idea is brilliant. Straight outta Star Wars. His presentation was a bit weird but the concept is slammo!
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Mark Fleser said 11:29AM on 11-10-2006
Obviously a fake but very cool nevertheless. The image that comes up is bigger than the "screen". And there's no way an Apple Remote sized device could produce audio that good and have a battery life better than about 3 seconds powering a projector and transmitter for a cell phone.
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consumer_q said 11:32AM on 11-10-2006
I did not watch the video with sound, but it is a rather keen video.
I was thinking more Star Trek than Star Wars, but a clever idea nonetheless!
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Jesse said 12:39PM on 11-10-2006
I think it is absolutely horrid. You can see the plastic where the screen is and the GUI looks photoshopped together. If your making a mock up, at least make it look somewhat presentable. Not like some 5 year old made it (Sorry for insulting 5 year olds across the world by comparing them to this garbage)
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Chris said 12:52PM on 11-10-2006
This is a concept, not a fake. A fake would have to be trying to pass itself off as the real thing, which this clearly isn't.
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yodeejay said 1:57PM on 11-10-2006
Love it.
I agree, why all the hate'n? what's wrong with you people!
dj
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Dway said 4:55PM on 11-10-2006
This is definatly true, this is a secret project of Apple, for sure.
This video is from Finland... Äiti=Mother
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okto said 5:14PM on 11-10-2006
1 out of 10, because it did pretend to be a phone.
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iDarbert said 5:38PM on 11-10-2006
I don't think he expected anyone to believe it's real... :D
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Radu Dutzan said 8:12PM on 11-10-2006
0.
What a waste of time from the guy who made it.
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