# Anyone for an iPhone Smoothie?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-for-an-iphone-smoothie/417553>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [August 31, 2007, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-for-an-iphone-smoothie/417553 "2007-08-31T00:14:33Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![Sam\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Sam\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Stone)\
**Post date:** [August 31, 2007, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-for-an-iphone-smoothie/417553/1 "2007-08-31T00:14:33Z")

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You know you want to see it - an iPhone in an industrial-strength blender. So here you go:

[Will it Blend? The iPhone](http://www.willitblend.com/videos.aspx?type=unsafe&video=iphone).

The “Will it Blend” site is actually an ingenious piece of marketing for the Blendtec blender, a heavy duty blender that will blend just about anything - and does. Some of the videos on the site are great - see Transformers REALLY get transformed. Watch as everything from Bic lighters to garden hoses are blended into a gooey mess.

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**Author:** ![sturmhauke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47c2d/32.png) [@sturmhauke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sturmhauke)\
**Post date:** [August 31, 2007, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-for-an-iphone-smoothie/417553/2 "2007-08-31T00:35:40Z")

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They made like they were going to blend a crowbar, but did a bait and switch with cell phones instead. Boo!

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**Author:** ![USCDiver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/uscdiver/32/354_2.png) [@USCDiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/USCDiver)\
**Post date:** [August 31, 2007, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-for-an-iphone-smoothie/417553/3 "2007-08-31T01:14:27Z")

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How come whenever they blend some kind of electronics they get that black smoke stuff toward the end?

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**Author:** ![Sam\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Sam\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Stone)\
**Post date:** [August 31, 2007, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-for-an-iphone-smoothie/417553/4 "2007-08-31T01:20:30Z")

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I suspect that’s coming from the battery. I’d take him seriously when he said, “iSmoke - don’t breathe that”.

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**Author:** ![ultrafilter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/3d9bf3/32.png) [@ultrafilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultrafilter)\
**Post date:** [August 31, 2007, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-for-an-iphone-smoothie/417553/5 "2007-08-31T01:22:29Z")

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[QUOTE=USCDiver]  
How come whenever they blend some kind of electronics they get that black smoke stuff toward the end?  
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Having black smoke inside them is what actually makes electronics work. To convince yourself that this is true, just observe that if you ever see black smoke coming out of an electronic device, it doesn’t work any more.

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**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\
**Post date:** [August 31, 2007, 8:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-for-an-iphone-smoothie/417553/6 "2007-08-31T08:53:07Z")

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He’s a scary man. Make him stop.