# Will it Blend? iPhone Edition **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 11, 2007, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-it-blend-iphone-edition/411422 "2007-07-11T21:50:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2007, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-it-blend-iphone-edition/411422/1 "2007-07-11T21:50:13Z")
Per Slashdot: [Mad man attempts to blend an iPhone](http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/10/will-it-blend-the-iphone-smoothie/). ---
**Author:** ![Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e480ec/32.png) [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Least_Original_User_Name_Ever)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2007, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-it-blend-iphone-edition/411422/2 "2007-07-11T22:20:39Z")
I love that guy. That blender is a frickin’ workhorse. Look at the glow stick one. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2007, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-it-blend-iphone-edition/411422/3 "2007-07-11T22:28:15Z")
Wow the “Will It Blend?” website is pretty cool. ---
**Author:** ![Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e480ec/32.png) [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Least_Original_User_Name_Ever)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2007, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-it-blend-iphone-edition/411422/4 "2007-07-11T22:28:58Z")
It is. Those things get flippin’ vaporized. I want one of those blenders. I don’t know what I’d ever blend, but dammit, if I had to, I could. ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2007, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-it-blend-iphone-edition/411422/5 "2007-07-11T22:32:27Z")
I don’t know what’s funnier – iWankers crying over someone “desecrating” ( :rolleyes: ) an iPhone like that, or the fact that [bidding on the blended remains](http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=170129995323) is currently up to $406.51. ETA: Huh…maybe that’s not as crazy a bid as I thought. The auction winner also gets a $400 blender, plus a bunch of other promo crap. ---
**Author:** ![E-Sabbath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e19adc/32.png) [@E-Sabbath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-Sabbath)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2007, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-it-blend-iphone-edition/411422/6 "2007-07-11T22:42:44Z")
It _is_ a commercial for the blender, you know. ---
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2007, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-it-blend-iphone-edition/411422/7 "2007-07-11T22:47:33Z")
[QUOTE=E-Sabbath] It _is_ a commercial for the blender, you know. [/QUOTE] Pretty effective one, too. ---
**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2007, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-it-blend-iphone-edition/411422/8 "2007-07-11T22:47:48Z")
Yeah, and they’re not above a little manipulation of the truth to sell their blenders. [Will It Blend-Magnets](http://youtube.com/watch?v=Ax2BOCoVDJk) [Youtube rebuttal](http://youtube.com/watch?v=Ax2BOCoVDJk) I thought those Blendtec videos were so cool when I first saw them a month or so ago. Then I watch the second video and now I’m just disappointed. I’d have been just as impressed if they’d just blended magnets. They didn’t have to lie about what kind they were. ---
**Author:** ![hocow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hocow/32/4112_2.png) [@hocow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hocow)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2007, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-it-blend-iphone-edition/411422/9 "2007-07-11T22:56:49Z")
[QUOTE=Inner Stickler] Yeah, and they’re not above a little manipulation of the truth to sell their blenders. [Will It Blend-Magnets](http://youtube.com/watch?v=Ax2BOCoVDJk) [Youtube rebuttal](http://youtube.com/watch?v=Ax2BOCoVDJk) [/QUOTE] The links are the same. ---
**Author:** ![Snowcarpet](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowcarpet/32/257_2.png) [@Snowcarpet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowcarpet)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2007, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-it-blend-iphone-edition/411422/10 "2007-07-11T22:57:14Z")
Gawds I love those videos! I think we may have actually watched them all, from marbles to hockey pucks. That man likes the smoothie setting a little too much… ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2007, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-it-blend-iphone-edition/411422/11 "2007-07-11T22:59:51Z")
I’m still waiting for the day 'ol Tom does a little too much mesc. “Check it…my fuckin’ arm…will it blend?” ---
**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:** [July 11, 2007, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-it-blend-iphone-edition/411422/12 "2007-07-11T23:00:39Z")
Make the nasty man stop. I’m impressed with the blenders, but I’m not sure I’d want to buy one after it’s blended a bunch of marbles or some such - that is how it works isn’t it? - the ebay auctions are for the blended item and the blender that was used to blend them (which lets face it, is going to be a bit damaged, unless it’s made of unobtanium) ---
**Author:** ![Mtgman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5a626/32.png) [@Mtgman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mtgman)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2007, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-it-blend-iphone-edition/411422/13 "2007-07-11T23:18:29Z")
The blender in the auction is a new blender, not used. Here’s the text from the eBay ad. > [@](#): > > Item Specifics - Cell Phones > Phone Brand: Apple iPhone Camera: – > Phone Model: – > Carrier: – Features: – > Technology: – Condition: Used > > You are bidding on a Apple iPhone that has been blended by a Blendtec Total Blender. In addition to the remains of the iPhone you will be recieving a brand new Black Total Blender- $400 value, a “Will It Blend?” DVD of the first 50 videos and an autographed “Tom Dickson Is My Homeboy” t-shirt! Shipping is free!!! The “Condition: Used” bit cracks my shit right up. Even if they were giving you a used one, the [new jar is $50](http://www.blendtec.com/productDetails.aspx?id=26). It doesn’t look like the motor would have taken much damage in the blending of the iPhone. Enjoy, Steven ---
**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:** [July 11, 2007, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-it-blend-iphone-edition/411422/14 "2007-07-11T23:31:29Z")
Oh, that’s not so bad then. They seem like really good machines - although they look like they were built by a hobbyist. ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2007, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-it-blend-iphone-edition/411422/15 "2007-07-11T23:38:28Z")
[QUOTE=friedo] Per Slashdot: [Mad man attempts to blend an iPhone](http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/10/will-it-blend-the-iphone-smoothie/). [/QUOTE] OH! MY! FREAKIN’! GAWD! ---
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2007, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-it-blend-iphone-edition/411422/16 "2007-07-11T23:51:14Z")
[QUOTE=Mangetout] …They seem like really good machines - although they look like they were built by a hobbyist. [/QUOTE] How so, exactly? ---
**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:** [July 12, 2007, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-it-blend-iphone-edition/411422/17 "2007-07-12T00:03:10Z")
It’s the illuminated LCD display, I think. It looks like one of [these](http://www.modtronix.com/index.php?cPath=43_86_126) - they’re very popular with robotics hobbyists. ---
**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2007, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-it-blend-iphone-edition/411422/18 "2007-07-12T05:27:04Z")
[QUOTE=hocow] The links are the same. [/QUOTE] Whoops. Where’d my mind go? [The correct link for the rebuttal.](http://youtube.com/watch?v=xvIY0w4j1FA) Basically the Blendtec video says, “Woo, we’re blending neodymium magnets! They’re so strong!” and the rebuttal says, “Those are not neodymium magnets, they look more like ceramic magnets! Don’t lie and don’t misquote Back to the Future.” ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2007, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-it-blend-iphone-edition/411422/19 "2007-07-17T02:11:52Z")
Apparently, the most frequent request Blendtec recieves is to blend a blender. Of course, this will never happen, but it would be pretty interesting. Blender smoke. Don’t inhale this! ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2007, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-it-blend-iphone-edition/411422/20 "2007-07-17T02:21:49Z")
[QUOTE=Inner Stickler] Whoops. Where’d my mind go? [The correct link for the rebuttal.](http://youtube.com/watch?v=xvIY0w4j1FA) Basically the Blendtec video says, “Woo, we’re blending neodymium magnets! They’re so strong!” and the rebuttal says, “Those are not neodymium magnets, they look more like ceramic magnets! Don’t lie and don’t misquote Back to the Future.” [/QUOTE] I think the phrase “get a life” might be relevant here. Why is that guy so damned upset about what type of friggin’ magnets they are? :rolleyes: Maybe the guy who made the Blendtec video doesn’t have a PHD in magnets and made an honest mistake in what he called them. Or maybe he lied about what they were. Who gives a shit? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-it-blend-iphone-edition/411422.md?page=2)