Oh no. No, no, no, no. I never, ever thought I’d have to dip my toe back in the weird, almost Lovecraftian world of the iPhone meat stylus. You know the one I mean, I did a blog post about it around a month ago. Remember? Korean guys who’d found that a particular brand of sausage could be used as a stylus on capacitive touchscreens, thereby creating the world’s first organic (well, I presume organic, one would think it’s at least ‘vaguely edible’) phone stylus. I thought that was an end to it.
I thought I’d never have to enter that minefield of double entendres again, so, therefore, I could avoid risking not just your sanity but my own.
I was wrong. According to CrunchGear, someone looked at that Korean innovation, and thought, “Ooh, yeah, we so need to make those for our customers over here.”
Yes, the sausage stylus has now gone on sale in the land of the free (and home of the weird), America, where someone clearly looked at the photos attached to those original stories about the iPhone meat stylus, and decided that the absolute best thing they could do was make an actual, proper capacitive stylus, in the shape of a sausage. And in doing so, they’ve both made me feel slightly disturbed, and sucked all of the fun out of the original story…
Y’see, the original story was brilliant; it was about plucky Koreans overcoming technological and climatic restraints to use their iPhones when they had gloves on. It was about the underdog heroes sticking a finger (or meat-based snack product) up at the weather and tradition and common sense. And it rocked. And then the Americans come along and cash in on the idea.
There’s probably a metaphor buried in there somewhere…
Oh, and that’s before you even get to the fact you can’t even eat the damn thing if you get peckish, y’know, what with it not being a real sausage at all. That automatically means there’ll be a warning on it saying it’s not edible, because it’s America, and they’ll sue anything up to and including “looking at me funny”. In a land where there has to be a warning saying “contents may be hot” on a cup of hot coffee (to which my reply is “they’d better be”), and where someone can turn on cruise control in their Winnebago, then go in the back to make a brew, you can guarantee someone would try eating their stylus.
News Source : - http://www.mobileshop.com