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iPhone Coasters Convert Any Table into a Jobsonian Device
Posted by Mark Wilson at 12:20 AM on September 30, 2008
From Meninos, the same designers who brought you the Samuel L. Jackson hard drive cases, these iPhone coasters have harnessed fanboy obsession into practical functionality—to protect your table from dangerous glass condensation. Constructed of thin plywood wrapped in a vinyl decal and bottomed in rubber, the 8.5cm coasters come bundled in a pack of 16 for $US60. Sadly, there's no support for downloadable coaster apps at this time. [Meninos via technabob]
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Curves Wants a Classic View Default
Posted 12:43 AM 30/9/08
@General Halfshaftery: Rounded corners cost more/take longer to make. They needed to get them to market FAST before His-Steveness sues them.
Curves Wants a Classic View Default
beekerstudios
Posted 12:40 AM 30/9/08
@General Halfshaftery: Which is an obvious oversight, and many coasters have rounded corners anyways, so it's really strange. You could probably make these yourself with your injet printer and some very think card stock, that is if you wanted a disposable bar like coaster
beekerstudios
shorty63136
Posted 12:39 AM 30/9/08
I prefer stone coasters myself - that whole condensation thing, y'know.
But these are cute too.
shorty63136
bpapa9013
Posted 12:36 AM 30/9/08
@Odd_Thomas: You consider that work?
bpapa9013
Odd_Thomas
Posted 12:34 AM 30/9/08
@bosskev: The work was all in the clever idea to make such well known images into coasters and then making them.
Odd_Thomas
General Halfshaftery
Posted 12:29 AM 30/9/08
Interesting, of course, but they forgot to round the corners?
General Halfshaftery
bpapa9013
Posted 12:29 AM 30/9/08
Welcome to virgin town.
Population: YOU!
bpapa9013
bosskev
Posted 12:29 AM 30/9/08
Yeah, they are cute, but I would think this is a violation of copyright (unless, of course, the copyright holder--presumably Apple--agreed to license these images for this commercial, profit-making purpose). My personal objection, then, is this could therefore be some schmuck's lazy way to try to make fast and easy money off someone else's design without actually doing any work themselves.
bosskev
Odd_Thomas
Posted 1:38 AM 30/9/08
@bpapa9013: Obviously I do consider that work which is why i posted my first message there.
Odd_Thomas
mikecoscia
Posted 1:30 AM 30/9/08
They need rounded corners
mikecoscia
hadees
Posted 1:25 AM 30/9/08
This would be the prefect place to keep my cupcakes!
hadees
snowy_coke
Posted 1:11 AM 30/9/08
whore
snowy_coke
Jon B.
Posted 1:07 AM 30/9/08
Quite honestly, if I were given these..I would stick them up to my wall in 'iPhone' format. Would be pretty sweet..
Jon B.
Jrsy is the dude, playing the dude, disguised as another dude
Posted 12:58 AM 30/9/08
iDrink... apparently not enough.
Jrsy is the dude, playing the dude, disguised as another dude
kingshrimp
Posted 1:59 AM 30/9/08
I'm somewhat ashamed already to be such a loyal apple client - but displaying it on my bloody livingroom table goes beyond my imagination.
kingshrimp
hologon
Posted 2:20 AM 30/9/08
@bosskev: First thing I thought of too.
Sounds like there's at least a good argument that it would qualify as a derivative work.
hologon
bpapa9013
Posted 7:02 AM 30/9/08
@Jon B.: I would definitely rather punch the person that gave them to me.
More rewarding.
bpapa9013
dvda
Posted 8:15 AM 30/9/08
wow, iphone coasters! now you too can be funny for 2 minutes and then slightly less funny each time after..
dvda
CooperDToo
Posted 12:28 AM 30/9/08
$60.....no thanks....just goes to show, apple fanboys will buy anything at any price.
CooperDToo