Teen-mum flick gets filmgoers hungry for hamburger phone
Companies like Apple and Sony have known for years that movie product placement translates into big bucks. The latest such placement is...a hamburger phone, which features in new teens-up-the-duff movie Juno.
Statistics floating around online, which have been attributed to eBay, claim that sales of the retro handset jumped 759 …
It's proberbly illeagal to connect this to a UK network (couldn't find any refs to BABT approval). Oh and it probebrly won't ring, unless you get a RJ11 - BT with capacitor.
<pedantry>Looks like a cheeseburger to me...</pedantry>
I vaguely recall such a device was frequently visible on the counter in a café on a TV show I watched as a yoof. I'm thinking it was Home & Away, but can't be certain.
It's an alright film with some pretty music by Sonic Youth, etc but only average, certainly not Oscar material. And the only people to buy this pos phone are likely to be the same people who buy rubbish like the iphone.
I remember in my first year of university we (as a prank... can you tell there were 4 engineers in my block?!) dismantled our friends internal phone and built the earpiece and microphone into a banana... worked well for a while before the banana turned to mush.
We then transferred the earpiece and microphone to polystyrene burger box - wasn't particularly ergonomic but it worked...
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Teen-mum flick gets filmgoers hungry for hamburger phone
Companies like Apple and Sony have known for years that movie product placement translates into big bucks. The latest such placement is...a hamburger phone, which features in new teens-up-the-duff movie Juno. Statistics floating around online, which have been attributed to eBay, claim that sales of the retro handset jumped 759 …
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Posted Monday 4th February 2008 14:41 GMT
Andrew
Give away? #
The "Juno Hamburger Phone" was a free gift on Facebook about a month ago, so they've been pushing it by other channels as well.
Posted Monday 4th February 2008 14:48 GMT
Stu Reeves
Before everyone in UK rushes out #
It's proberbly illeagal to connect this to a UK network (couldn't find any refs to BABT approval). Oh and it probebrly won't ring, unless you get a RJ11 - BT with capacitor.
Posted Monday 4th February 2008 15:00 GMT
Lorum Ipsum
Retro Hamburger phone idea #
A hamburger phone also appears in the 80's movie "Dragnet" with Hanks and Dan Aykroyd...so it's not *that* new...
Case of retro ideas coming back into fashion maybe...
Posted Monday 4th February 2008 15:49 GMT
David Gosnell
BABT approval ... #
... appears to be a thing of the past now.
Can't remember the last time I saw a green blob on a few bit of kit, and it's apparently all now been subsumed into CE marking.
Posted Monday 4th February 2008 15:49 GMT
Adrian Jones
And... #
Mr McDowell had one in his office in Eddie Murphy's Coming To America in 1988.
Posted Monday 4th February 2008 15:55 GMT
Anonymous Coward
@Lorum Ipsum #
Erm... do you know what "retro" means...?
Posted Monday 4th February 2008 15:55 GMT
Tim Lake
@Lorum Ipsum #
Did you read the actual article?
"why people would want to talk into something that’s been around for decades, rather than a state of the art wireless Dect handset is beyond us"
We all know it's been around for years, thats kind of the point
Posted Monday 4th February 2008 15:55 GMT
bluesxman
can't think of a title #
<pedantry>Looks like a cheeseburger to me...</pedantry>
I vaguely recall such a device was frequently visible on the counter in a café on a TV show I watched as a yoof. I'm thinking it was Home & Away, but can't be certain.
Posted Monday 4th February 2008 15:55 GMT
James Le Cuirot
Plastic food #
You might as well go to MacDonalds, their burgers are even more plastic and cheaper to boot.
Posted Monday 4th February 2008 17:51 GMT
Lloyd
Meh #
It's an alright film with some pretty music by Sonic Youth, etc but only average, certainly not Oscar material. And the only people to buy this pos phone are likely to be the same people who buy rubbish like the iphone.
Posted Monday 4th February 2008 20:32 GMT
Anonymous Coward
Burger Phone #
They used to use one on the TV show "Home & Away" in the diner years ago. You can see it in this clip on the edge of the counter:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibAEGTI_3pI
Posted Monday 4th February 2008 22:17 GMT
Noogie Brown
Forget the burger phone, I want the garfield phone #
as seen in Godfrey Ho's timeless classic Ninja Terminator.
Posted Monday 4th February 2008 23:40 GMT
Haku
Missed opportunity #
With mobile phones probably more popular than thethered phones (wouldn't really know, I hate both types), what about a mobile phone hamburger?
Posted Tuesday 5th February 2008 12:09 GMT
Paul Hampson
Food Phones... #
I remember in my first year of university we (as a prank... can you tell there were 4 engineers in my block?!) dismantled our friends internal phone and built the earpiece and microphone into a banana... worked well for a while before the banana turned to mush.
We then transferred the earpiece and microphone to polystyrene burger box - wasn't particularly ergonomic but it worked...
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