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  • Hung Up - is your phone a sex toy?

    mobile_iphone_sex_toyIt’s smooth, it’s curved, it vibrates; it could even, if so desired, animate pictures of George Clooney’s fingers. It’s no surprise then that there are already some 25 “massage” apps competing on the iTunes Store, jostling for attention like so many buxom babes in the back of a local city guide. Some focus on the serious business of physical therapy and raise the bar with yogic text and oriental graphics; others coyly reference ‘emotional stimulation’; few come out and risk the wrath of Apple’s censors by telling it like it is.

    Which is, Ladies and Gentlemen (or just you ladies then, since the lads are on Safari searching for visual titillation), a Pocket Rocket you can talk on! A mini orgasmatron that integrates with your ...

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  • iHotDog by Cool Carat for iPhone

    Not even going to dignify this geek chic accessory with a thumbnail. There are times when the enthusiastic hand of Riverphonic must clench into the crushing fist of criticism, and iHotDog has got it coming. Has our culture really come to this? A simulated virtual sausage sizzling on your handset, with eye-wateringly fatuous accelerometer controls. According to the App store blurb (which btw is too long and suggests everyone related to this atrocity had far too much time on their hands), this could help you "be the coolest guy at dinner, attract your love date, impress your pal, command attention from girls and women over lunch" (it actually uses those words). And it goes on...

    Puhlease Give The World A Break! Try explaining the point ...

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  • iBanter, developed by Poke/Cobra for iPhone

    Those cheeky Brits. Of course it had to happen, and it’s no surprise to see this coming out of the land of classic comedy TV, lager-drinking and curry (three national obsessions that make living in the rain-drenched UK almost ...

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