Pointless Gadget of the Day: Thiphone, The Cellphone Thigh-Strap
Posted in: Accessories and Peripherals, Today's Chili
How much would you pay for a strap which cinches a cellphone to your thigh? What do you mean you don’t need to strap your phone to your leg? You’re dead wrong, buddy. This is clearly the most useful product ever.
Who are we kidding? The Thiphone (we know) is a $30 strip of fabric with a suction cup attached. To this, you stick your phone (it’ll work with any smooth, flat-backed cell, but the iPhone is the clear target here) and then you have an amazing, thigh mounted phone! Suggested uses are a) driving a car with the phone on your leg; b) sitting in an airplane with the phone on your leg; c) driving a truck with the phone on your leg; d) sitting in the back of… you get the point.
Once you are settled into your seat of choice and have strapped the iPhone to your thigh, the angled mounting points it square at your face, although unless you are practising yoga a pair of binoculars might come in handy to actually read the screen at such a distance. The product site even urges you to use the phone for phonecalls, all while it is strapped to your thigh. Yes, the Thiphone people don’t think you’ll look weird if you talk to your own meat-wrapped femur.
To end this madness, I would like to pull a quote directly from the site, a headline on the “learn more” page. Here it is: “It Sucks. Really.” Quite.
Product page [Thiphone. Thanks, David!]
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