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10 geekiest iPhone stands

By | July 21, 2010, 5:00am PDT

Summary: Many have a fetish with their gadgets and to a greater extent, their iPhones. Some people take docking it to extreme levels. Here’s how.

If you thought that yesterday’s iPad accessories were weird, you haven’t seen anything yet. People have an obvious fetish with their gadgets and to a greater extent, their iPhones. So what’s a self-respective gadget-lover to do with their iPhone when it’s not in use? Build a throne for it, of course!

Asylum took a look at some of the more creative docks (if you can call them that) people have built for their iPhones. My favorite is the old school rotary phone dock (pictured) but the geekiest has to be the Mario pipe dock. I had to think about it for a minute too, but then all those countless hours of playing Mario Brothers brought it right back for me.

Runner up for geekiest iPhone stand would probably be either NES controller or NES gun dock, then there’s also the Lego dock — but people have made stranger Apple things out of Lego.

I just use a boring old dock cable with a USB extension cable to charge my iPhone each night, but the Asylum piece is inspiring. What’s your iPhone docking solution?

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Jason O'Grady is a journalist and author specializing in mobile technology. He has published six books on Apple and mobile gadgets and his PowerPage blog has been publishing for over 15 years.

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Jason D. O'Grady

Jason D. O'Grady is the creator and editor of O'Grady's PowerPage, which has been publishing mobile technology news since 1995. He maintains an advertising relationship with the following legacy advertisers on the PowerPage:

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  • Google Adsense
  • Tekserve
  • Advertising on the PowerPage is brokered by a third-party agency (BackBeat Media) and he recuses himself from these negotiations.

Biography

Jason D. O'Grady

Jason D. O'Grady developed an affinity for Apple computers after using the original Lisa, and this affinity turned into a bona-fide obsession when he got the original 128 KB Macintosh in 1984.

He started writing one of the first Web sites about Apple (O'Grady's PowerPage) in 1995 and is considered to be one of the fathers of blogging. He has been a frequent speaker at the Macworld Expo conference and a member of the conference faculty. He also co-founded the first dedicated PowerBook User Group (PPUG) in the United States.

After winning a major legal battle with Apple in 2006, he set the precedent that independent journalists are entitled to the same protections under the First Amendment as members of the mainstream media.

O'Grady is the author of The Nexus One Pocket Guide, The Droid Pocket Guide, The Google Phone Pocket Guide, and The Garmin nuvi Pocket Guide (Peachpit Press), the author of Corporations That Changed the World: Apple Inc. (Greenwood Press), and a contributor to The Mac Bible (Peachpit Press). In addition, he has contributed to numerous Mac publications over the years, including MacWEEK, Macworld, and MacPower (Japan).

When he's not writing about Apple for ZDNet at The Apple Core, he enjoys spending time with his family in New Jersey.

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