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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 of this to someone who in the traditional sense works for a living. At least the iPint looks like you could be drinking it in a dark bar. God help any food brand that got talked into paying for this spectacular, colossal waste of time. Of course I'm probably totally wrong and this will sell more than the iFart, in which case maybe if just some of the proceeds, a small, ketchup-smudged smidgin, could be diverted to feeding the truly hungry, this would seem a little less like a mobile evangelist's Wurst frying nightmare ;-)


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