@Rabid Penguin: Especially if it gives off a huge jet of steam if the person hangs up on you first.

Kaiser-Machead's WALL-E fetish

@Canthros: Lets go even further and ask: What if the iron shaped phone really was an iron in addition to being a phone. It could be a metaphor on how phones are destroying the very fabric of society.

Rabid Penguin

Just don't turn on the Iron part and you're fine.

buyj3llo

Steampunk iPod?

dylanwho

@SharkByte: The keypad is a waffle iron.

maven2k

something something hot calls.

WildWon

teenage phone usage deterrent. It would have worked too - before cell phones got big.

Rodime

You're right, this would be very awkward if you confused this for a real iron and attempted to smooth your clothes.

beardedkid

@Tarv: It is a phone shaped like an iron. Irons get very, very hot, for to press the wrinkles out of your clothing. Now, suppose a person is distracted while doing something with their shirts and grabs the wrong iron-shaped device when the phone rings.

Canthros

Yeah, I don't see this thing selling very well... Nobody uses rotary phones anymore.

Rabid Penguin

Always makes me smirk a little to think that Mr. Wilson got paid to write this article - which comprises four words.

It's like the old joke about the woman who goes to the $1000 hair stylist. He cuts three hairs, and pronounces "Voila! She is fini!" The woman is, of course, nonplussed - "You only cut three hairs! THAT's $1000?" The stylist replies "Ah, Madame, the secret is in knowing which three hairs to cut!"

Ah, well, more power to you.

ps61318

i miss pulse dialing

User Formerly known as Arelar

Also sold on QVC as The Hotline™.

DustyButt

For hot phone sex. Obviously.

Curves

On the bright side - it has GPS.

....not that you're going anywhere with it...

wolfshades

maybe those are just big option settings for the iron and it really has no phone application at all?

zsleek7

@DustyButt: LMAO, that cracked me up!

Torley

i've given it 20 seconds, explain.

Tarv

Tired of those unsightly wrinkles on your face but are too busy on the phone to get rid of them? New from the makers of Activon... Its the IPHONe! Now, you can talk those wrinkles away!

IPHONe, apply directly to the forehead.
IPHONe, apply directly to the forehead.
IPHONe, apply directly to the forehead.

DustyButt

@SharkByte: oh the ironing...

likefry_likefry

@SharkByte: Thankfully I wasn't drinking my coffee when I read that.

Toxic Ned

"Let's see you run up my minutes now!!"

Kaiser-Machead's WALL-E fetish

I second (third?) the vote to change the title to "Can you hear me N...oooowwWWWWooOOWWW?"

SQLGuru

If the designer's intent was to deter telephone use, it's wildly successful.

DrJimmy

what, no Helen Keller jokes?

mrafternoon

oh the irony...

SharkByte

This makes me want to beat Artists/Designers...

bpapa9013

@Keebler: awe inspiring

jiffy

I think the subject of this post should be changed to:

Can you hear me n......oooOOOoooWWWW!?!?

Keebler

This isn't a product concept or technology. It's art.

From the artist's site:

A contradictive mixture of objects with features which in an odd way share some familiarities. I have fun contemplating on how one would use it. Would he still keep the phone within distance from his face even knowing the iron would not burn or press harder in a rush of self confidence?

Wow. That's deep. I have fun contemplating what your face would look like if we beat it with the iron phone? Such hostility! I apologize. Let's just brand him instead.

Hectorvex

What? no touch scre---oouuchhhh

designguybrown

I can't wait till the 9-1-1 calls start.

Geisrud

@mrafternoon: That is the first thing I thought of. How did she burn her ear?

bms

@Rabid Penguin: As an Amish person (Mennonite, actually), a metaphorically self-hating phone could generate the same kind of excitement within my community that the iPhone generates among the general population. I'm a little confused why the cord comes out of the handle instead of the base - that doesn't seem practical - but aside from that, I could see this as THE stocking stuffer for the Amish (and Mennonite) communities come X-mas.

frigg

@mrafternoon: Dude, that picture reminded me of a Hellen Keller joke that I heard in grade school.

Munch the BanNail

I have to admit, I laughed out loud when I saw this. It takes something unique to make me laugh out loud.

daveedo

@Rabid Penguin: I'm sorry. You're confusing me.

"...commenting on a blog on the internet?"

Huh?

Are you talking about the interactive newspaper I made from parts I bought at flee markets that lets me play with imaginary friends who talk about phones, games, space, boobies, and each other?

frigg

But it's so cool!

gr.mon

...let the joke-fest begin...

pharago

@bms: she burned her left ear by answering the iron- she burned her right ear when they called back...

mrafternoon

@Rabid Penguin: Spare us the inflammatory remarks, English!

Kaiser-Machead's WALL-E fetish

shwa?

UrIt

Nothing like the wireless shower

iPeg

@frigg: Wait a second... if you're Amish (Mennonite, actually), then how are you commenting on a blog on the internet? I've always just thought you sent in your comments by means of carrier pigeon, but after thinking about it a little more I'm not really sure how that would work.

Rabid Penguin

@frigg: Flee markets? Do they only sell French products? Badunk chsshhhhh.

That was horrible, I hate myself, and it's all your fault.

Kaiser-Machead's WALL-E fetish

Steamflunk

Stem_Sell

@Rabid Penguin:
would today's children even know how to use a rotary phone?

and look at that!!! it has a cord!!!! the horror!!!!

godwhacker

Brian: "Grandma? What happened to your face?" Grandma: "I accidentally answered the iron."

MichelleDatsun

iRon

Cupajo

@Kaiser-Machead's WALL-E fetish:
I stopped going to flea markets when I got tired of the Red Hot Chili Peppers. Ga-dunk fchhhhhhhhh. There. That was worse, I hate myself, it's all your fault, and now we're even.

frigg

I fail to see the problem with this concept. My God, it's brilliant!

teddlesruss

Hey, that's just like the Irish/Polish/insert State or Nationality to be made fun here jokes I heard 40+ years ago.

How do you make ... burn their ear?

Phone them while they're ironing.

Jocularity, jocularity.

HeyBeav

dumb

Faslane66

@HeyBeav:
+1 sherman potter reference

godwhacker

@Canthros: this is going to take me a while. :(

Tarv

@mrafternoon: Yeah, this was the punch-line of an old Hellen Keller joke.

Q: Why is one side of Hellen Keller's face burned?
A: She answered the Iron.

Q: Why is the other side burned?
A: They called back.

Not the funniest now, but it "killed" me when I was seven.

newgalactic

@Curves:
LMAO, too funny!.

On second thougt, the designer could call it "dial-a-temp" it would work just as good for an iron....

aec007

@mrafternoon: Unfortunately, that was the first thing I thought of.

Why was her other ear burnt? They called back!

ta dum dum chish.

zenpoet

Inside the Oval Office with president Dubyah...

"Mr. President, it's Russian President Putin on the hotline."

Dubyah picks up the "phone."

"Hello Mr. President. Hello? Hello...?"

Minutes later...

"Dick, do you smell something burning?"

MyPetFly

and nobody noticed the the hole for the "1" is already at the end point? obviously the person who designed this has never used a rotary dial phone.

HoseHead

it's a facelift and phone in one! Genius!

DrAndrewsGinsuKnifeSet

@Rabid Penguin: "Actually that's where they..." fixed.

Rabid Penguin

@HoseHead: Actually that where they decided to place the '0' and it's a safety precaution so you don't accidentally dial it when you don't mean too.... or something like that.

Rabid Penguin

@Cupajo: Sometimes the simple, quick stabs are the most effective. That just kills me.

ps61318

I got it! The problem with this concept is that the "1" is too close to the stop-arm, such that the dial won't rotate enough to trigger that number!

tinyhands

I am just impressed that everyone recognizes it is supposed to mash a phone with an iron given the fact that I would bet very few of us use irons, and virtually none of us have a rotary corded phone anymore. Score another point for the Giz geeks.

(We know this from visiting our grandparents? Oh, well, take back the point, then.)

Monty

I can see this as a 50s product geared towards women:

Betty can chat with her other housewife friends all she wants, while never missing a beat on the household chores.

Also available: the kitchen sink phone and the stove phone.

helldiver

Now available in the app store: I am burnt! Only $999.99

cmantito

@bpapa9013: Wow. Ignorant, much?

bysty

@mrafternoon:

That was my first thought.

baristabrawl

What about my bullet-floss patent?

Crowbot

@SharkByte: Give a star to this man

Bokusatsu_Tenshi

@DeusExMach: Ack! Misplaced apostrophe! O NOES!!!

DeusExMach

See? THIS is how it should be done. Show a picture, give a short quip (albeit slightly confusing... what am I waiting for?) and let the comment pun's begin. Fantastic Giz... Fantastic.

DeusExMach

ok kids, step away from the conceptual art, it's for adults only

mm1234

Is this more legal than spanking your grown daughter?

Con Seannery

OMFG, they made a way to women spend more money on phone calls w/o leaving their home duties =O.

SewerShark