iPhone 'home' button earrings are for serious fangirls (and guys) only
By Laura June 
posted Nov 16th 2009 2:09PM
posted Nov 16th 2009 2:09PM
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Okay...now...the pointless iPhone posts are really getting out of hand.
I would never put those things in my ears though. They're so boring...
Someone needs to be shot over the creation of these.
You're right. There needs to be a separate site for all of this iStuff.
Yes.
But I also noticed...they said be warned like 14.95 was a high price for earrings.
My earrings cost 30. So that's actually cheap.
I think they meant $14.95 was a high price to pay for some cheap ass plastic ones. In which case, I concur.
So, judging from your avatar, you'd put the HTC Touch Pro 2 buttons in your ears instead?
Paul A. Chapel had these like 10 days after the iPhone came out, made them himself! xD
If you push their ear, you can send them home.
Oh N900...you never fail to make me chuckle! LOL
Only if it was that easy. I'd get everyone a pair and just push when they annoy me!
@754Boy
Yeah...but then also depending on what the post is made out of...that's also a factor.
Even if I did want these...at 14.95, those post has to be something less than Sterling Silver...so my ear would break out. No thank you!
@Nerdtalker
Actually I guess you could call me an Android enthusiast.
I've had this pic every since the TP2 was first announced. Engadget's crappy system will NOT let me change my pic though. So eh...what can ya do.
So they could cover this but not the airfoil debacle? (Where the app was rejected for using icons provided by a mac using a documented API call)
Any woman who wears these....are just asking for a butt kickin'
Also...I would never put ANY phone inspired earrings in my ears...unless they actually look nice.
These are cheap looking (well they are cheap).
You can still see the hinge(?) things on the side. I mean...at least grind them down to make em perfectly round earrings...
@ iDavey
"Okay...now...the pointless iPhone posts are really getting out of hand."
And of course, if these were Steve Ballmer's face you'd be here singing it praises.
You take the take the cake for most pathetic comment so far.
@Highest Ranked
Read my comment above.
Im CLEARLY an Android supporter. But overall I am a tech geek.
But mainly...as an earring wearer, these are just BORING. Hell, not even any female would wear these. There's no flair, pizazz to em.
Put a solitary cubic zirconia in em at least, then we'll talk.
As I also said though, I'd never wear any phone inspired earrings. So read first...then TRY to insult sir. Thank you. =]
I'm not sure what is worse. That Engadget posted about them, or that someone can actually make money out of selling this crap.
@ iDavey,
whait a minute, you're a dude and you wear earings? you have got to be gay.
@[Highest Ranked]
Try not to use "gay" as a pejorative - even in jest.
@[highest ranked]: Wait a minute - you're a dude who honestly still think that only gay guys wear earrings nowadays?
You've got to be a moron.
I don't think it was THAT pointless of a post. I mean, they did get a multitasking joke out of it.
Yeah I love my iPhone but I don't think I could ever wear these and retain my dignity.
nobody other then lady gaga would wear those things, might have been her idea!
@ Davin Black
"Wait a minute - you're a dude who honestly still think that only gay guys wear earrings nowadays?"
Wait a minute, if a dude's not walking around with an eye patch, a parrot on his shoulder and calling himself Jack Sparrow, but still wearing earrings, then yeah he has got to be gay. Or at least some kind of closet transvestite.
My wife will love these!!
Your wife is weird.
Wife????????
I can hear the stampede to the piercing salon of overweight, socially inept young men who still with their parents from here!
*still live with
Be warned, once she puts these on she will no longer be able to multitask and will only run authorised applications.
(You can always jailbreak her to get around this).
@skyblaze:
That made me dizzy and make stomach churn......It's ganna take me a while to recover from that one.
I had to walk through the foilage to the liberry to check the spelling of jewelery. I am such a looser.
This post made me cringe even though it brings up a valid point.
Sort of ironic that one of the few Engaget writers who happens to be a female misspelled "jewelry". Not to mention the fact that it should be "lying around" rather than "laying around"....
Sigh, after the upheaval that went on in the comments section of the Android typo "article" (to use the term so loosely), I sort of hoped Josh or someone at Engadget would have issued an internal memo asking writers to triple-check their spelling and grammar.
www.dictionary.com
Actually, I had this discussion yesterday, lmao.
Lying is for a subject. A person. You lie...he is lying down. That sort of thing.
Laying is for an object, products if you may. So iPhones laying around would indeed be grammatically correct.
The jewelry...there is no excuse for that. -shakes finger-
@iDavey: wrong. There's a transitive/intransitive distinction in there, too.
I will go lie down.
I am lying down.
I will lay the book on the table.
The book is lying on the table.
Jewelry and Jewellery are both correct, although while typing this I see a dotted red line under the latter spelling, which happens to be the British one.
Do they include a fart app?
No, they come preloaded with the new plastic surgery app.
i thought you were joking, until i read the article under this one...
Yes...yes.
iPhone now has a plastic surgery app. For making your important surgery appointments on the run. =]
I just can't believe mankind has come this low.
I'll stick to my playstation controller cuffs http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/23/playstation-controller-cuff-links-impress-sony-interviewers/ thank you very much.
Tacky.
NO
Apple will reject itself one day.
this IS pretty cool, although it won't match my Finder belt buckle
Cuff links, maybe, not earrings.
Ditto
Please stop posting this stuff...
Do they make one for my Prince Albert?
iRings?
Yeah, it's truly a multitasking age. So less iPhone, please.
Keep this stuff over at TUAW and not on Engadget.
We tried:
http://www.tuaw.com/2009/11/14/the-gift-of-love-the-gift-of-recycled-mac-and-iphone-jewelry/
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.
"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".
@ 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.
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.
@ 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.
"it's a multitasking age" ... NOT
lol
What? Your ears? Wow now i'm impressed..
I'd stick one on my front door, just to remind me of what I'm entering....
/s
These are great but you can only wear one at a time....
"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."
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
You took the bait. Shut up, sucker!
God dammit! God, God dammit! When is engadget finally going to fix their finnicky 'reply to' button for Christ's sake?
no wonder US is losing in every aspect to the world in everything.
Gives a whole new meaning to "Pushing someone's buttons."
They aren't worth the money if they break as easily as the actual ones.
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.
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.
I saw these and instantly thought of the AppleFan Girl iJustine.
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.
Wow. Who would want to advertize their crappy phone on their ears.
little far fetched.
LMFAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
'nuff said.
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!