The iMaxi: an iPad for your iPad

John Brownlee ()

The iMaxi: an iPad for your iPad

A joke so obvious that the humor-bereft Mad TV joke-writing bullpen thought it up two years ago? Sure. Moreover, there’s better reasons to think Apple’s choice of the iPad moniker is a terrible branding mistake.

Even so, you might consider dropping $40 on this iMaxi Apple iPad Case being sold by the Atwoodian Etsy outfit Hip Handmaids… if only because, as a device touched by God, it may very well suffer from the occasional stigmata.

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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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  • Peter

    Lame.

  • Mike

    Love IT

  • Gazoobee

    Not only lame, but a bad idea if you want to make money.

    The kind of folks that find it funny, won’t be buying an iPad and no one who bought an iPad would want to carry it around in a joke holder like this.

    The only use this thing has is as an insult/gag gift. A few people will get one for their birthday or next christmas, groan, and then never, ever, use it. A year from now the company is out of business and the product is a joke on eBay for a while before fading away forever. What a waste.

    It’s just not funny unless you’re twelve or something.

  • EJ

    @Gazoobee: It’s being sold on Etsy.

    We’re not talking a mass-produced product here — they’re probably making them on demand. They’ll sell a few to people to whom the humor appeals — you might note that the whole thing looks like a relatively normal vinyl case when it’s all closed up — and get some additional eyeballs directed to their webshop.

    Altogether, completely harmless, and it makes someone* out there smile for a minute.

    *(Yes, I understand that “someone” in this case is obviously not you.)

  • Ryan

    @Gazoobee

    It’s funny. I’m buying an iPad, and I might pick this up as a gag, and I’m in my 30′s. I wouldn’t bring it to work in this, but over to a friends house for sure.

    Endometrial sluff isn’t gross, yucky, or unclean. It’s a product of a pretty amazing biological function, and is really no different than the sleep you get in your eyes, the mucus that builds in your nasal cavity, or the fatty substance from your ears that you call wax (but isn’t).

    But if the iPad was called the q-tip, and there was a similar tongue and cheek product, I doubt you would be up in arms.

  • igus

    tee-he-he. notepad. that’s got pad in it too. and leap-pad, the electronic educational toy by leapfrog. leap-pad has got pad in it too. tee-he-he.

    grow up people.

  • pc1980

    needs to come with some blood chunk effects and a miscarriaged baby fetus keychain as a bonus then ill bite