iPhone 'home' button earrings are for serious fangirls (and guys) only

We've seen plenty of phone-inspired earrings -- it's a multitasking age, after all, so it's not really a surprise to see gadgets inspire jewelry. It is kind of surprising to behold these earrings, however, which appear to have been made with iPhone 'home' buttons. What, there are so many disused iPhones lying around that someone just had to make jewelry out of them? Poor reception got you down? If you want to scoop up a pair of these, hit the read link... but be warned: these bad boys will run you $14.95.

[Oflife Posted Nov 16th 2009 2:46PM]

iRings?

[Verythrax Posted Nov 16th 2009 2:56PM]

Yeah, it's truly a multitasking age. So less iPhone, please.

[ThunderBunny Posted Nov 16th 2009 3:05PM]

Keep this stuff over at TUAW and not on Engadget.

[vicagreda Posted Nov 16th 2009 5:00PM]

We tried:
http://www.tuaw.com/2009/11/14/the-gift-of-love-the-gift-of-recycled-mac-and-iphone-jewelry/

[HighestRanked Posted Nov 16th 2009 3:07PM]

Wow quite amazing to see here all the tirade of Apple-haters that fell for this Engadget flame-bait article.

Well guess what, Engadget needs suckers like you to generate clicks (which get recorded in AdSense) to hike up their advertising space rates on the sides of the Engadget website. The more you people click to leave anti-Apple comments, the more money Engadget makes off of you.

[Edobe Posted Nov 16th 2009 3:29PM]

"Engadget needs suckers like you to generate clicks"

Since this is not the first comment you left on this article you are calling yourself a sucker as well. Your comment can be read properly by replacing every "you" with "us" or "we".

[HighestRanked Posted Nov 16th 2009 4:18PM]

@ edu3000

No sir. You're dead wrong on all fronts. I am not an Apple-hater, therefore none of what I said applies to me. I click on this article out of curiosity not to leave hate comments. However, the majority of comments here clearly reflect the target audience of this Engadget post: Apple-haters.

[Edobe Posted Nov 16th 2009 6:48PM]

So let get this straight, apple hater=sucker for viewing the post more than once, and non-apple hater= view the article as much as you want.

I personally am not an apple hater, I own an iphone and ipod touch. I am a fan of all things Tech. You make a good point about are clicks being counted in adsense. So intend to continue clicking on this article to support one of my favorite websites and to set straight.

[HighestRanked Posted Nov 16th 2009 11:46PM]

@ edu3000

I'm not saying you are an Apple-hater, but consider this: if you check out Apple news websites (like mac.alltop.com for example) you'll see there are tons of items to pick from daily. Yet Engadget is choosing this one particular news because I believe they can leverage the rampant Apple-hater factor so characteristic of Engadget to generate clicks and traffic. If you look at Gizmodo, they post Apple news too but usually not the flame-bait kind you find here. And even when the same kind of article appears on Giz, the quality of user comments you see there are like night and day compared with the ones you see in Engadget. Rare to see flame wars on Giz, at least not about Apple/PC.

[Rasec Posted Nov 16th 2009 3:07PM]

"it's a multitasking age" ... NOT

lol

[Imran Posted Nov 16th 2009 3:15PM]

I'd stick one on my front door, just to remind me of what I'm entering....

/s

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 16th 2009 3:45PM]

These are great but you can only wear one at a time....

[John Stracke Posted Nov 16th 2009 3:26PM]

"Bob, why are you wearing an iPhone earring? I thought you hated the iPhone."

"I do! I hate them so much, I snuck into Steve Jobs's house and smashed his iPhone, and kept the home button as a trophy."

"Don't listen to him, Susan. He bought it online for $14.95."

[WmPenn Posted Nov 16th 2009 3:26PM]

Whoever is selling these, i admire them for taking a cheap of-the-shelf iPhone part and repurposing it into a value added product that they can make some quick change off of! On the other hand i pity anyone who would actually buy this tacky fanboy crap, wtf is wrong with them? LOL

[WmPenn Posted Nov 16th 2009 3:28PM]

You took the bait. Shut up, sucker!

[WmPenn Posted Nov 16th 2009 3:40PM]

God dammit! God, God dammit! When is engadget finally going to fix their finnicky 'reply to' button for Christ's sake?

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 16th 2009 3:39PM]

no wonder US is losing in every aspect to the world in everything.

[Orangecat Posted Nov 16th 2009 4:00PM]

Gives a whole new meaning to "Pushing someone's buttons."

[Stven Posted Nov 16th 2009 4:14PM]

They aren't worth the money if they break as easily as the actual ones.

[Davin Black Posted Nov 16th 2009 4:26PM]

I'm genuinely curious (and not trying to be a dick): how'd you manage to break the home button? I have a 1st gen that I've never had a case for, and dropped multiple times - yet haven't had the home button so much as slip.

[Stven Posted Nov 16th 2009 4:39PM]

My 3G came with a defected Home button, it registers the click but gets sticky sometimes and won't give the physical feedback. I have also had a friend with a first gen with her home button not registering clicks.

[cirian75 Posted Nov 16th 2009 4:29PM]

I saw these and instantly thought of the AppleFan Girl iJustine.

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 16th 2009 5:25PM]

Hey guys, I just found a great blog trying to compete with the old TUAW, it's called enTUAW! Visit it at www.engadget.com!

Honestly, you have a sister site dedicated to apple. Enough Apple already. It's tiresome enough that Apple is constantly shoving the long, shiny minimalistic dick that is their products down our throats. All you are doing is plugging up the other holes.

[Thor e Posted Nov 16th 2009 5:35PM]

Wow. Who would want to advertize their crappy phone on their ears.

little far fetched.

[A Brown Kid Posted Nov 16th 2009 7:40PM]

LMFAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
'nuff said.

[ufinc Posted Nov 17th 2009 7:38AM]

Laugh as much as you can. But the next time you go to Starbucks you'll surely see some hipster girl/boy wearing these to show off her/his "individuality" ... Lame and disgusting!