PocketHeat app warms your hands by pushing your iPhone’s CPU to 100%

John Brownlee ()

PocketHeat app warms your hands by pushing your iPhone’s CPU to 100%PocketHeat is an app that has recently been pushed to the iTunes App Store designed to keep your hands warm in the winter. For $0.99, the app will push your iPhone or iPod Touch to its maximum CPU capacity.

It’s rather mystifying that this app got through the App Store approval process, since pushing your iPhone or iPod Touch CPU to the point of meltdown seems risky, to say the least.

Still, it has given me my own killer idea: an exfoliating iPhone app that works by making a user’s handset physically explode. Any developers out there want to help me make it happen?

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John BrownleeJohn Brownlee is news editor here at Cult of Mac, and has also written about a lot of things for a lot of different places, including Wired, Playboy, Boing Boing, Popular Mechanics, Gizmodo, Kotaku, Lifehacker, AMC, Geek and the Consumerist. He lives in Cambridge with his charming inamorata and a tiny budgerigar punningly christened after Nabokov's most famous pervert. You can follow him here on Twitter.

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  • http://www.Jewsagainstzionism.com iPalestinian

    lol no i dont want to help you i’m already suspicious simply because i am from Palestine.

    But that sounds crazy that it pushes the iphone to maximum CPU… why would anyone want to do that to their device? There is another new invention called gloves.

  • http://ihbs.co.uk Benjamin

    surely it would destroy your iphones battery life?!

  • http://Www.att.com AT.T

    This is the worst idea in the world. A constant 100% workload would damage the internal parts and cause the battery to significantly decrease over a short period of time. I don’t mean because your iPhone memory usage is at 100% but because the iPhone couldn’t possibly be built for that kind of Usage.

  • Justin

    Oh dear. Won’t someone think of the children?

  • noah

    Haha i broke my iPhone by running this application then backgrounding it and using other apps… Im going to apple now to get it replaced. Good app! Just dont background it. :D

  • Simon Landon

    Haha i broke my iPhone by running this application then backgrounding it and using other apps… Im going to apple now to get it replaced. Good app! Just dont background it.

    Genius

  • http://www.fort90.com/journal/ fort90

    It just pisses me off to think of some of the excellent apps that can never seem to get approval, and then this junk gets the green light.

    And yeah, a stupid idea that my bork your phone in the long run.

  • Mattzook

    Irresponsible. This kind of app garbage is the REASON why Apple should be banning (rejecting) a few specific apps every now and then.

    Harmless stupid apps like “iFart” I don’t have a problem with, because they are… uhhh… harmless.

    But this app has immediate potential to do damage to the device. Simply stupid.