Before we tell you more about the shoebox-sized personal iPhone Theater, let me ask a few questions to gauge your suitability for such a project. Do you live alone, or better, with your mother? Did you stop painting RPG miniatures in your teens, or are you still doing it? Would a perfect night out for you would be a night in, with your dolls-houses, a roll of duct tape and that cute girl from down the street, the one who always laughs at you but you know she loves you anyway?
Of course, we tease. We are totally nerdy enough to love this downloadable, DIY mini-theater. For $12, you get a bunch of printable JPEG sections which you glue onto cardboard and arrange inside a shoe-box. These cover every part of the gaudy cinema experience, from the glowing neon corner-tower outside to the vomit-patterned carpets and seedy red-velvet seats inside. The iPhone slots in behind the screen and, while it won’t mimic the shafts of projector light pushing through the smokey air of the theaters of our childhood, it’ll give you some of the real movie-house atmosphere.
The kit takes around two hours to build and comes with a variety of textures and colors for walls and floors, which seems to faithfully mimic the range of hideous decor found in your average downtown flea-pit. One word of advice: don’t tip up the “empty” paper cups.
Personal Movie Theater [Personal Movie Theater. Thanks, Gary!]
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