iPhone hidden in a Moleskine

Wired's Charlie Sorrel constructs a How-To on concealing your iPhone inside a moleskine—perfect for reading eBooks.

Adds Brownlee: "It's done about exactly as you'd expect: with an exacto knife and a whole horse carcass' worth of glue."

How To Turn an iPhone into a Moleskine Book [Wired: Gadget Lab]

[#1 posted by Joel Johnson , June 13, 2008 5:23 AM]

Charlie, if you read this: that's really, really fruity.

[#2 posted by mistercharlie , June 13, 2008 5:44 AM]

Of course I read this! And thanks.

[#3 posted by technogeek , June 13, 2008 7:40 AM]

For what it's worth, I'm told SCA members have been embedding palmtops in mock "wax tablets" for years, both making them acceptable in the medieval-costuming aesthetic and mapping them to the nearest equivalent erasable note-taking device of the time.

[#4 posted by DEEPEYES , June 13, 2008 11:12 AM]

As pricey as Moleskines are, I'd have a tough time making that first cut. Pick up a cheap bound journal at Half-Price books for this project, and use the Moleskine's creamy paper for sensuous longhand prose...

[#5 posted by drtwist , June 13, 2008 2:05 PM]

DIY? Check
iphone? Check
Moleskine? Check

it's like the hipster trifecta

[#6 posted by MITTZNZ , June 13, 2008 3:31 PM]

Somebody needs to explain to me the appeal of the moleskine.

[#7 posted by Pete Carlton , June 13, 2008 4:44 PM]

@5: Try using your moleskine-embedded iPhone on your fixed-gear steampunk bike. You'll explode from hiposity.

[#8 posted by Dustin Driver , June 13, 2008 5:59 PM]

Why not use a "Little Red Book?" Waaaay more hipster.

[#9 posted by hohum , June 13, 2008 6:23 PM]

@4: I wholeheartedly disagree. I think all the moleskine has going for it is its discreet exterior. That paper is really quite so-so for liquid inks. I'd use moleskines for hidin' junk in, and use Rhodia, Clairefontaine, even Black n' Red for my sensuous prose writin'.

[#10 posted by GregLondon , June 13, 2008 8:09 PM]

You fools! Caesar's Palmtop was hidden in a scroll, not a book.

[#11 posted by Inox , June 13, 2008 9:29 PM]

If that doesn't slip out easily, you're going to look goofier than Maxwell Smart answering it when it rings. :D

[#12 posted by Halloween Jack , June 16, 2008 12:49 PM]

MITTZNZ: That would be about as useful as trying to explain the appeal of porn.

[#13 posted by Doctor Pickles , June 16, 2008 3:26 PM]

Just FYI, that's an iPod Touch, not an iPhone.
(You can tell because of the black edge banding instead of the chrome seen on iPhones.)

I wonder if whoever owns it is super-excited about getting to pay Jobs & Co. for the privilege of upgrading to the 2.0 OS that iPhone users get for free?

[#14 posted by pooklord , June 16, 2008 5:26 PM]

#12
Not comparable.
Porn appeals to anyone with a libido; Moleskine appeals to hipsters with little to say and too much money to say it with.

[#15 posted by Antinous , June 16, 2008 6:26 PM]

But Pooklord, most of us are too hopped up on anti-depressants, anxiolytics and Vicodin to have any libido left. Let us enjoy our moleskines in peace.