According to
The Sydney Morning Herald, hundreds of
Hamburger Phone re flying off eBay's virtual shelves after they appeared in the hit comedy Juno.
"Paul de Carvalho, manager of
Fox Searchlight in Australia, said the studio brought 100 Juno-branded
phones to Australia for use in promotional giveaways but the product - also sold online without any branding - had since
turned into a pop culture icon.
... eBay spokesman Daniel Feiler said in the three months between November 7 and February 5, Australians snapped up 364
hamburger phones. Prices, sales and bids have increased exponentially in the three weeks since the film's local premier.
As demand has increased, so too has the final selling price, which inflated from around $10 in November to around $20 in January. Some have paid up to $56.
In the US, eBay said demand for the retro phones jumped 759 per cent in the month following Juno's release there."
They can also be ordered
here.
permalink (February 7th, 2008)
Spotted on
Core77, a
Hamburger Phone. Related in some way to a movie I think. Tacky none the less.
permalink (January 24th, 2008)
Looks like food
phones are becoming a genre of their own. Spotted on on
GearFuse, a
sandwich phone.
Pull the pieces of bread apart and one of the slices acts as a receiver, the other as the keypad.
Equally as tastless: the
Turkey Dinner Telephone and the
Hamburger Phone
permalink (February 14th, 2008)
Spotted on
Spluch a phone shaped like a turkey drumstick.
Why? comes to mind. Fortunately,
Custom Phones provides the answer:
What will they think of next? TV personality Dick Wolfsie asked Mike to make this crazy phone for his Thanksgiving show.
Related: -
Your very own uh, Hamburger Phone
permalink (January 30th, 2008)
Tackiness has no bounderies. After the 