Look, yes, the iPhone is kind of a fingerprint magnet. It attracts smudges the way Black Friday sales attract insanity. And the brilliant folks at Phone Fingers saw this as an opportunity—nay, a duty. A way to prevent people from desecrating their holy iPhones with their greasy, oily fingers. For just $10, you can buy a set of 25 phone fingers, latex sheathes that cover your thumb and forefinger (or, presumably, any other finger you choose to use your iPhone with). They claim that the iPhone’s touchscreen works perfectly with the Phone Fingers; we claim that you will look really stupid wearing them. Which is true? Both, neither? You decide.
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Apparently, I'm not using my iPhone efficiently because I use only my fingertips. Why the hell are they so long?
Where to even begin...
First of all, they are totally creepy looking. Who would want to look like they have a condom on their finger.
Secondly, would it have killed them to make them CLEAR??? Why not try to have them blend in a little. Gross, gross, gross.
Oh, good grief, what a ridiculous product. In an era when so many of us are reducing, re-using and recycling, it just blows my mind that someone would try to create a market for a product that's, well, essentially unneeded.
Will they match my collection of iPod socks?? :-D
Almost as lame looking as the iPod sock.
At least Allen Iverson's pointing finger will now match his shooting arm ;-)
I'm going to send this to my iPhone-toting friends for a good laugh. Then again, somebody bought the Chia Pet and the Pet Rock, too.
Wow. You put these on two fingers and have a sexy little dance number right on your desk....
Has a definite S&M look. Maybe the company could add a teeny whip so that users could punish their iPhones.... Hmmm....
Just another way it proves that God has a sense of humor!
Well, since most of the smudges on an iPhone are the result of putting it against ones ear while talking, I'm surprised they didn't come up with a latex ear glove. Certainly that wouldn't look nearly as foolish, right?
Latex? Now?
When latex allergies are increasingly (it seems) common (or at least increasingly noticed).
When medical facilities either have their latex and non-latex gloves color coded, or have no latex at all.
Aside from being silly, these things are dangerous to at least some potential customers.
Yeah. I have a minor latex allergy which just means I get a little rash there.
Hmmm... Methinks that a condom could be used instead of this?
They need a 5th size...Small, Medium, Large, Extra Large, and Oh My God!!!
I bet it preven PTD's. (Phone Transmitted Diseases)