Will it Blend: the iPhone smoothie
By Joshua Topolsky 
posted July 10th 2007 7:56PM
posted July 10th 2007 7:56PM
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I enjoyed that more than I should have...
I think it's time for a segment of "Will it Return?"
Mmm...iDust.
iSmoothie?
How long of a line do I need to stand in for the iDust? =)
That was hard to watch
I think I'm gonna be sick... at least he's got another. If anyone did that to mine I kill 'em. I love how the metal case didn't blend =D.
But they scratched the glass!
"dude." Will he blend?
I don't know what your problem is, I mean really...
To answer the question before you ask, and yes i know you were going too..
NO... it will not play DOOM.. Yes, my heart sank just as much as yours.
Kick.
Ass.
Do you talk to yourself a lot?
That should have been a crime....sigh.
Was anyone else amazed at how long the iphone stayed turned on during the blend process?
Say what you will about the iPhone, it sure must have some serious durability.
I did notice that. That's really a decent selling point for apple, and I'm impressed. I am glad they left it on.
Ha... that's why they jumped straight to smoothie. :P
im amazed it lasted that long. it took some pretty good hits and was
still playing.
I dont understand this blending stuff, dont batteries explode and shit. I mean theres probably a capacitor or something in there that explodes, potentially dangerous.
That was what I was thinking. Also, I like how it is like black ash when it comes out...
I think they take out the battery.
The screen was on jackass
pwned?
"I think they take out the battery."
I love seeing people make themselves look stupid... (did you WATCH the video, dummy?)
@Nomi, there is one Will It Blend where the victim (I forget what it was) does explode. You see sparks fly and the lid even forces Dickson's hand up a bit. I think it's in the opening sequence of most of the older Will It Blends.
I noticed with the iPhone that towards the end, everything suddenly went black. Seems like something in there exploded and a whole lot of fine black powder came out. Maybe the battery?
As someone has done a lot of "destructive testing" on batteries, I think I can pretty confidently say that the "black ash" IS the battery, mostly the carbon substrate of a presumably Li solid polymer battery (just my guess).... AND you definitely should not breath that sh*t since the electrolyte contains some very nasty organic solvents.
gosh what an amazing blender. blend-tec must make top quality blenders if it can blend an iphone. i think instead of $600 on an iphone, i'm going to buy as many blend-tec blenders as i can.
crazy ass publicity stuff. hey it works, got my attention.
Umm, $600 will buy you exactly one of those blenders. You all curse the iPhone's $600 price tag...but that's a $600 BLENDER.
Actually, the blender is on sale for $400. So you could buy 1 and a half...
I thought the iphone glass was unbreakable looks the the real unbreakable glass was the blenders
you should check out the video of them shredding 5400 carats of cubic zirconia
"iSmoke - don't breathe this!" genius.
Finally, some worthy iPhone news!
Cheers to that!
As the mighty Blendtec pierced the heart of the evil iPhone with its blade all of the maligned forces contained within burst forth from its unholy trappings in the form of a deep black plume of pure evil.
I love the end. Reminds me of M$'s Zune business plan.
must have been a 4 GB.
Better than sex!
Ok, I take it back, but it was still very highly enjoyable! ;)
I love this stuff. First we get a great video, and then all the Apple fanboys/anti-Apple fanboys have a go at each other. The comment section ends up being almost as entertaining as the video. Great stuff.
You Maniacs! You blended it! Ah, damn you! God damn you all to hell!
Nice - it's not often a Planet of the Apes reference gets worked into a comments thread..
Like any of the iPhone haters wouldn't take a free one (even half blended)..
only to sell it on ebay!
For those of you complaining about the "expensive" iPhone, he put a $599 iPhone in a $399 blender...
Yeah, but that $399 blender is significantly better than competing models, and it does things they can't. As opposed to a $599 phone that can't even record video or use custom ringtones.
...yet.
Unlike many of those other expensive phones, the iPhone is an actual general-purpose computer that can be upgraded in software.
...and it's still enough easier to use than ALL of the others that the only game they can play is "checklist the features, even though the other phones suck so bad in usability that they might as well not have those things."
Web browsing, for example. I've done head-to-head browsing with other users with those "list" phones, and the guys had so much trouble getting them to work at all they might as well not call them "smartphones."
If the whole video was real (there was some editing) it's kinda creepy to think the entire case save the bezel was reduced to a toxic black powder.
That blender can handle pretty much everything. I agree that it was edited (I think they had it complete the 1 minute smoothie cycle, but cut it down to about a minute in slo-mo), but the blender has ripped apart just about everything else. Amateurs also have played around with the blender- you can find those on youtube too.
I looked for it on eBay and was disappointed..
IMO...anyone who enjoys this should get a life. I watched it out of curiousity, that stupid guy\blenderer should have donated the cost of that iphone to charity or pay a hooker and get laid, looks like he hasnt in awhile!