David Cronenberg's iPhone charger

By Mio I-zawa, via Laughing Squid and Pink Tentacle.

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teknocholer

I always thought Monster Cables were overpriced, until I saw this one.
redesigned

eXistenZ!!! i knew it was real!
Art

I have a monster pain in my side form laughing. FABULOUS!!
David Pescovitz

Fantastic.

Here is an excerpt from an IM I just had with Rob about this:

Pesco: You know I’m a big Cronenberg fan.

Rob: Not a surprise there!

Pesco: I interviewed him for the BB print ‘zine in the early 1990s. He was awesome. I focused the interview all about the weird gloopy sounds he uses in his movies.

Rob: hey, I was going to remark that the only bad thing about it was that there wasn’t a sound chip covering up the servo noised with nice wet schlupping sounds. Heartbeat, etc.

Pesco: hahahahahah, exactly.
VICTOR JIMENEZ

Oh… eeewww… damn you videodrome!
/goes to torrent videodrome.
Fang Xianfu

Oh god, it’s sucking out the internets!

SHUT IT DOWN! CUT THE HARD-LINES!
- cjp
  
  It’s too late. The only thing left is Bieber. (He’s indigestible)
  - Phikus
    
    Hahaha! -Though actually, he is when he’s slowed down 800%.
    
    I need one of those. My cats like to chew through thin power cords if they can get ahold of them.
Sawyertrice

and it’s so practical, too
lectroid

This is so awesome I actually thought about buying an iPhone just so I could use it. @redesigned is dead on. That’s an eXistenZ connector cable if I ever saw one. And Rob is totally on target about the sound chip.

I can forsee improvements like simulated peristalsis that shows whether data is uploading or downloading.

In fact, am I out of line is hoping for an entire line of cables like this?
farrellmcgovern

Long Live the New Flesh!
redesigned

can you set your iPhone on the desk and this thing will wiggle over to it and suck the end in to initiate charging? now that would be cool.
zootboing

Gahhh! Killitwithfirekillitkillitkillit!!!!
Anonymous

one word – gnarly
Anonymous

“eXistenZ Phone”
BrolinsHole

I must have one! Where! Where!
Anonymous

Are we still in the game?
Anonymous

i dont want that in my house. period. foot so down.
THEGODOFTHUNDER

Tentacles and iPhones, my two most favourite things.

They could sell a range of these things like a sarlacc pit iPad charger with a tiny Boba Fett that pops up when the charge is complete.
gandalf23

eww. Just read Chuck Palahniuk’s “Guts”. soooo…ewwww.
Kern

Is it ingesting *from* or excreting *to* the series of tubes?
That’d determine if it should be named “Apple” or not.