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A granny from the U.S. has made headlines all over the internet by reinventing the iPhone. In wool.

The lady from Salt Lake City was asked to knit an iPhone for her grandaughter as her son feared his would no sooner be out of the box than it would be covered in sticky fingerprints and toddler drool.

The knitted iPhone is quite impressive although one wonders, why ? Couldn’t her son just have given his daughter his old phone ? Or a toy phone ?

Rachel Matthews, the owner of a knitting shop in London said,

"Not everybody would think they want such a luxury, but to have one knitted for you, it’s come with a lot more love than a real one," she says. "The iPhone is the more ridiculous thing, isn’t it ?"

I, for one, would be more than a little ticked off if I got a knitted laptop for Christmas. And it certainly wouldn’t say, “I love you”, it’d say, “Haha, did you think I’d waste any real amount of money on you, you silly git ?” but hey, if that’s what you’re trying to say with a gift, knitted tech products for everyone this year.

If anyone is actually interested, there’s some rather detailed instructions on how to make your own woolly iPhone on her son, Greg Allen’s, blog.