Phone Fingers fight smudges, protect against STDs*
By Sean Cooper 
posted Oct 18th 2007 1:37PM
posted Oct 18th 2007 1:37PM
If you're tired of your smudged and dirty iPhone screen - and seriously, who isn't? -- and you just can't be bothered to clean it anymore -- and seriously, who has time? -- Phone Fingers are guaranteed to get you laughed at help. Phone Fingers are made from the finest black latex, come in 4 sizes (small to extra-large) and will only cost you $9.90 for 25 pack. While we worry that people would willingly trade their dignity for a smudge-free existence, we'd still love a pic if you catch somebody wearing a set. Follow the read link for a video of them in action.
*Screen-transmitted diseases
*Screen-transmitted diseases
Oh my God! What the hell is that?
Finger Condoms!
its a racist condom for fingers? Duh.
Venom fingers
It's a douche marker.
One more way to spend your hard earned money...
I wondered why he had such tiny condoms at hand, then I remembered he was an Apple fanboy.
that's a tad unnecessary isn't it? I mean you only need something that covers up to the first knuckle, not all the way to the crotch of your fingers.....
seriously...
"are you tired of whiping your iphone once a week?"
"then use this device you have to wear EVERY TIME YOU USE IT!"
great sales pitch guys.
I'm not sure who the bigger moron is.....the one who developed this, or the first person to buy them.
we'll call it a tie?
This is not a new product, just marketed for a new use.
In the electronic industry (typically Micro Electronics) these are used to keep the oils of your skin off of product surfaces... You can buy various colors but black is typically ESD safe.
http://www.fingercots.net/Black_Static_Dissipative_finger_cot.php
Check it out, bag of 720 for only $20
Yea they have already invented that, its called a rubber glove.
Hey, baby! Wanna get it on?
Sorry, fresh out of rubbers.
Don't worry, I brough my iPhone with me.
condom for the iphone lol
Thank you for explicitly pointing out the obvious joke that was already carefully (and creatively) inferred by Engadget. props
Google ads on the product pages are usually sign of a scam, although the PayPal button works. Anyway, why would they make them *black* if they could make them transparent? (It doesn't make more of a better idea, I'm just saying...)
I still say it's a hoax.
If you think people with pocket protectors get made fun of...wait until you see the first person sporting one of these!
Pocket protectors serve a purpose. you can buy finger cots for like 2 dollars a box, what moron would pay 10 for a box of finger condoms....
I just ordered a pack of 25
Laugh all you want, but I know some iPhones who sleep around. Safety first, wrap that rascal.
Butt-pickers Anonymous (BA) is throwing all of its support this way even if it is for more unscrupulous reasons.
Is it the NEW type of condom for our fingers !
wow i surfed a whole page without any apple news on engadget today!
you guys rock!
Or you could just buy an invisible shield... They work great.
Or, on a serious note, just get a screen protector and realize that smudges are:
- A fact of life
- easily cleaned off
- not a major problem.
But can it... wait a sec... it DOES play Doom!!!
But... wait a sec... STUPID!!!
No glove, no love
You think that's goofy, have you seen the new iPhone ad featuring a bricked iPhone?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqOEZPx3nC0
-Ben
Now they just need to market this thing for every PDA, phone, etc... /rolls eyes
Yeah, but can it play Doom?
no. it cant play doom. its a piece of latex.
What flavors does it come in?
These will go great with my FlickrBlockers!
Are they ribbed for the iPhone's comfort? Seriously, why are they ribbed?
They are ribbed for Steve's pleasure.
This is the new Christmas gag-gift. Give it to your iPhone usin' buddy.
HA!
Woah, an iCondom!
my fingers are too big for the iphone. using a pen doesnt work. is there a special stylus i can use???
I would need a magnum sized one............with strawberry flavour.
jesus, that looks more like an as*-toy for a fan-boy :D
K, so rubber glides how smoothly as you drag your fingers across the screen?
This is a lot better than the guy that had surgery on his thumbs so he would have an easier time using his BlackBerry. You know he's getting laugh at for his deformed thumbs, and it's not like he get back to how he was. Plus with these there's no downtime for recovery. You fingers might get a little hot though.
Ummm...That was a hoax...
Well, ok. Obviously I didn't know. But it's not that hard to believe that someone would do this with all the extreme surgeries that people have. After all, there are people that have sex changes.
How long before they get sued for using that song in their promo vid?
Waiting for the Zune French-tickler.
Finger and vibrator. Awesome.
That phone is familiar.... oh! this is engadget..
Touche!.
It's actually spelled "Douche" /sarcasm
Honestly, If you don't like engadget, run along to some other blog.
did no one else immediately think of the ice cream glove?
wtf is an ice cream glove?
it was from da ali g show...he pitched a white glove to execs that you would wear while eating ice cream so the ice cream doesnt melt on your hand. the whole idea was just ridiculous, and this product is along the same lines in my head.
Unless you're going to put a fresh one on every time you use your phone, you're still going to get oils on those the same place you get oils on your fingers - from all over the place (faces, door knobs, keyboards, etc).
Your finger tips don't excrete oils, your face does.
There must be some secret contest amongst mobile phone accessory manufacturers to see which one can make products that will make people look like the biggest douchebag. It started with belt clips, then the hands-free sets. I thought maybe the bluetooth earpieces might be where people finally start drawing the line on how ridiculous they want to look, but no, we have a new winner now.
The only difference is that hands-free sets let you use the phone on long trips, headsets have a purpose in businesses and for the same aforementioned reason and belt clips save you from losing your phone.
But ok, I guess that doesn't work in favor of your joke.
iFinger!
If I have small fingers, can I get white ones?
//what?
Don't lend your phone out and you might not catch any STD's, unless you have one already. I do belive this is nonsense though.
Why the hell would anybody want to wear a condom on their finger?
Creepy... thats all
You've got to be stinking kidding me with this thing.
Looks like that guy has severe frostbite. Might want to get that checked.
It would be better to use gloves as you won't get stares touching the device that way. It's far too inconvenient to put these protectors on every time you want to touch your iPhone/iPod touch - and if you forget to take them off, it would be embarrassing. "Well thanks very much Mr. Andrews. I've got a couple of more people to interview for the job but I'll let you know if you've got it soon." (Goes to shake hands) "Woah... this is awkward..."
a finger condom....
Just add lube!
Sweet! Now all it needs is to be made of that transparent steel I can dial the phone and pierce someone's chest while waiting to connect.
Also, do they have an ear/cheek condom to protect from those smudges? I want to see someone walk into a bank with head and finger condoms using that phone. Of course, if the person managed to breathe long enough to be shot as a possible robber.
But hey, at least he (or she, don't want to leave anyone out) could make it to the top of the list for the next Darwin Award...
Get the invisible shield -- it's less prone to smudges.
imagine putting an iphone up to your ear to talk... it most generally touches the whole side of your face. so unless you have JUST showered, has some oil on it that tracks across the screen anyway... pointless at best.
If you dont use the iphone condom, you might end up with an iphone baby! - http://ipopmybaby.com
Leave it to someone to market a ten-cent finger cot as an electronics accessory at 1000% mark-up.
Gotta love Capitalism.
I was thinking expensive finger cots too. Oh well, since they're new to 99% of the people here we'll let them have their laughs. Apparently they don't work in the tech industry, my company buys them in packs of 1000.
And not even the good ones. http://www.fingercots.net/nitrile_finger_cots.php Those are only marginally more. Besides looking like a tool with black gobs on your fingers, a lot of people have or quickly develop latex allergies. Latex gloves are typically banned in hospitals now and my ex, a nurse, stopped using them even before that as within a couple of months of regular use of laxtex glove on student work program job at a nursing home her hands would be covered in hives if she wore a pair.
Just buy one of those anti-glare matte crystal film things - never any smudges. Job done
I see England, I see France, I see my big black finger up you as*
i think developing a stylus would have been a better idea :3
So if they can make this, why haven't they made a stylus for the iPhone?? Some of us could use something that would allow us a more accurate way to approach the touch keyboard.
Let me be the first to advise proctologists against off-label use of this product.