Frozen sausage as iPhone stylus
Using an iPhone in the cold presents a quandry. You don't want to freeze your fingers, but gloves make the touchscreen difficult to use. Unless you've got Dots Gloves.Or sausages.
In South Korea, CJ Corporation noticed a sharp increase in sales of their frozen sausages. Not because they're especially tasty, because cold commuters have discovered that they make an effective iPod stylus. It seems that they're electrostatically compatible with the iPod's touch screen, and nearly as effective as using a human finger.
Here's a Google-translated story on the phenomenon from a Korean newspaper (the translation into English is quite poor, but you'll get the idea).
I don't know about you, but i'll be buying a box of Jimmy Deans this weekend.
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Using an iPhone in the cold presents a quandry. You don't want to freeze your fingers, but gloves make the touchscreen difficult to use....
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1. People that waste their time commenting to tell us that they are wasting time reading articles that they have already read or hate are kinda absurd.
2. I can concur that those aren't frozen sausages. You usually get them in the convenience store as a snack. They are usually refrigerated though, but not always. They are also very unlike any sausages you would imagine in the west and mostly very gross. But kids seem to love 'em.
3. And who knows whether the story is real or not but it does say a 39 percent increase which is a sharp increase, I would say. But then again, it wouldn't be an article on Tuaw if Jordan wasn't arguing about some lame point.
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February 16 2010 at 8:49 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyIt also works with string cheese...still in the wrapping
February 13 2010 at 1:32 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyI don't think these are frozen sausages, at least if they're like the fish sausage that they sell in Japan. And the word "frozen" doesn't appear anywhere in the article.
February 13 2010 at 7:26 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyOr you could just use a fresh green bean :) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Uq0T8vV-2M
February 13 2010 at 2:24 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyWhat happens if my iPhone is vegitarian? Also I guess it gives a whole new meaning to the term sausage fingers.
February 12 2010 at 11:56 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyMan, am I tired of reading this story over the last 2 days...
Have we all seen it now, can we move along?
I never saw it, if you don't want to read it twice, don't click the link. Pretty simple.
February 13 2010 at 3:02 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplySorry I couldn't call you back ...I got hungry & ate my sausage.
February 12 2010 at 6:59 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyiPhone: "don't you point those dirty green sausages at me!"
February 12 2010 at 6:42 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyThat's... creative, to say the least.
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