We’ve seen a lot of iPhone accessories here at Cult of Mac, but it’s rare that one leaves us absolutely speechless. Yet when I consider the Hand iPhone Case by Rakuten, my eyes bulge a little, my mouth goes dry, my tongue seems to swell and all I can do is mouth the consonants “W….T…..F……” to myself.
As you can see, the Hand iPhone Case is a disembodied hand… lopped off with an axe, cloned from latex and grafted onto the back of your iPhone, like a human ear growing on the back of a mouse. And hey, if that’s not utterly weird and creepy enough for you? You can pick up a version that pastes a child’s severed hand on the back of your iPhone instead of an adult’s, no additional charge!
Meanwhile, this guy seems as if he’s using that fake lady hand for more than just holding his iPhone, if you catch our drift.
Here’s a couple more images, showing the product in more detail and some suggested usage scenarios:
If you want one, the Hand iPhone Case will cost you around $69 dollars, which probably seems expensive when you could just go down to the local playground and chop off some small child’s hand yourself for free, but think of all the savings in legal fees.
“Thanks” to CoM reader David for spotting this one!
John Brownlee is a writer for Fast Company, and a contributing writer here at CoM. He has also written for Wired, Playboy, Boing Boing, Popular Mechanics, VentureBeat, and Gizmodo. He lives in Boston with his wife and two parakeets. You can follow him here on Twitter.
62 responses to “What The…?!? This Weird Japanese iPhone Case Looks Like A Child’s Severed Hand! [Gallery]”
It’s…. Different.
O_o
…well, Asia is different you know…
I just paid $ 23.86 for an iPhone and my girlfriend loves her Dell laptop that we got for $ 38.76 there arriving tomorrow by UPS I will never pay such expensive retail prices in stores again. Especially when I also sold a 42 inch LED TV to my boss for $ 665 which only cost me $ 62,81 to buy. Here is the website we use to get it all from, GrabPenny.com
Different ? lol Damn Chinks
…this is the same culture that eat whales and slaughter dolphins.
Remarkable ancient culture, but occidentalization really messed them up… just a little bit.
Got. to. have. :)))
because disgusting racist remarks show how much better you are than them?
I just paid $22.87 for an iPad 2-64GB and my girlfriend loves her Panasonic Lumix GF 1 Camera that we got for $38.76 there arriving tomorrow by UPS. I will never pay such expensive retail prices in stores again. Especially when I also sold a 40 inch LED TV to my boss for $657 which only cost me $62.81 to buy. Here is the website we use to get it all from, http://to.ly/aRSH
this change everything, again.
[This comment has been edited for violating Cult of Mac’s rules on commenting.]
[This comment has been edited for violating Cult of Mac’s rules on commenting.]
Japanese, not Chinese.
Please hate properly.
We eat cows and slaughter chickens…
America is doomed from the inside! Don’t blame the Chinese!
Just because a culture doesn’t fit your idea of what’s right doesn’t make it disgusting.
I’m sorry Mr Brownlee that you have such bigoted people reading what was supposed to be a funny article.
Try to raise whales and dolphins in farms.
If they’d be able to do that, it could be worth having a discussion.
This is not a philosophical issue about killing an animal to provide us with food, it’s about caring sh*t about extinguishing fascinating species because of an ancient cultural habit. Spartans used to throw their weak babies from a mountain, but their culture has evolved from that.
Anyway, the point is: the Japanese can be weird.
Yeah you’re right… I thought about saying ‘if it was as easy to raise whales as it was chickens we’d all be eating them too’…
And they are very weird! I’ve been there…
You have issues, Mr. Swen Goodwood.
]]Did you noticed the lol at the end ?
Check out this great apple bog for all the up to date news on everything apple!
Even news on the iPhone 5
http://applefanboynews.com/
As if “The Cult Of Mac” wasn’t creepy enough. This is super-creepy. Only the super creepy would want a child’s amputated hand on the back of their iPhone.
Any race can be racist, avid23, you idiot.
Any race can be racist, avid23, you idiot.
tinyurl.com/2df4ccp
Eating a cow is really no different than eating a whale or a dog or a horse. It’s “normal” in North America. Different things are “normal” in other countries/cultures.
LOL! You can’t be racist? Are you kidding? Well you’ve certainly proved you can be an idiot.
Bravo !!!
The usual idea is that you would use NFC to set up the link between the two devices and then do an automatic hand over to a different protocol for doing the actual transfer of data – eg Bluetooth,iphone 5
Sorry, but the name of the store is Strapya, not Rakuten. Saying an item is “by Rakuten” is like saying something is “by eBay.” Otherwise, thought the article was funny. :)
Like the dodo and the carrier pigeon?
Get off your high horse my friend… it’s not just the Japanese doing it.
That doesn’t make it any less shameless and disgusting.
It’s is a matter of doing it responsibly. Raise them, farm them, and then eat them.
Whales and dolphins are not theirs. This affects us all. Decimating species has no turn back. And at their rate, there will be none in just a handful of years. Nobody cares because it will be a problem for future generations, and it is hard and difficult to enforce. That does not seem to be very responsible to me.
Nah, it’s quite different. A cow is a dumb animal, whales are as smart as people and dolphins have even bigger brains that we do. All the higher animals have feelings though, so in that sense it’s the same.
Reinventing the iPhone case. Now pedophiles will enjoy iPhone cases too.