12 Extraordinary People iPhone Stories

The Australian businessman who ordered a £1.92m diamond iPhone

Designer Stuart Hughes, from Liverpool, took ten months to make the phone after it was commissioned by an anonymous Australian businessman in 2009. The casing of the i Phone 3GS Supreme was created using 271 grams of 22 solid carat gold. The front bezel houses 136 flawless diamonds totaling a massive 68 carats while the Apple logo on the back is made from a further 53 gems. The front navigation button is made from a single diamond of more than seven carats. This diamond i Phone is currently the most expensive phone in the world.

The man who, crushed by rubble in Haiti, survived thanks to his iPhone

U.S. filmmaker Dan Woolley was shooting a video about poverty in Haiti when the earthquake struck. He could have died, but he ultimately survived with the help of an i Phone first-aid app (called Pocket First Aid and CPR) that taught him to treat his wounds. After being crushed by a pile of rubble, Woolley used his digital SLR to illuminate his surroundings and snap photos of the wreckage in search of a safe place to dwell. He took refuge in an elevator shaft, where he followed instructions from the i Phone app to fashion a bandage and tourniquet for his leg and to stop the bleeding from his head wound.
The app even warned Woolley not to fall asleep if he felt he was going into shock, so he set his cellphone's alarm clock to go off every 20 minutes. Sixty-five hours later, a French rescue team saved him. Say what you will about theiPhone. This story is incredible.

The orchestra that uses iPhones instead of musical instruments

An orchestra that uses i Phones instead of musical instruments held a concert at the University of Michigan. The Michigan Mobile Phone Ensemble is one of several university orchestras that has foregone traditional instruments in favor of music applications, downloaded on to Apple's i Phone, to play songs. The musicians took a course at the university, entitled "Building a mobile phone ensemble" and learned how to create instruments on their i Phone. The instruments are played using a combination of gestures, including tapping the touch-screen and blowing in to the microphone. The instruments also use the phone's built-in GPS, digital compass and accelerometer, which knows which way round the device is being held, to produce a certain note depending on whether it is being tipped or shaken. The iPhones are attached to speakers, worn around the musicians' wrists, and the instruments produce a combination of familiar and unusual sounds.

The girl who received a 300 hundred pages iPhone bill

Justine Ezarik, a blogger from Pittsburgh, was so gobsmacked when she got her first iPhone bill that she filmed herself paging through her 300-page double-sided invoice to the music of the iPhone advertising campaign. The clip has been viewed more than two million times since it appeared on YouTube. Miss Ezarik's $274 (£137) bill, which details every single download, call and text message down to the very second and file size, had almost twice as many pages as the Jane Austen novel Persuasion. It was so large that it had to be sent in a box instead of an envelope. AT&T changed the invoice system for the next month.

The teenage who sent 300,000 texts in one month

A Sacramento County teenager is bragging about a big accomplishment. She logged more than 300,000 text messages in one month. “My friends said, ‘Text your little thumbs off',” Crystal Wiski said. “Thank God for free texting,” added her mother. Jacki Wiski said she had just bought the i Phone for her daughter one month ago. “I get cramps,” Crystal Wiski said of her habit. Needless to say, it didn't take long for her to get used to it. Her mother is amazed by the number of texts. She must text while she's sleeping.To put 303,000 text messages into perspective: that's more than 10,000 text messages a day, 421 messages an hour and seven texts a minute.

The man who underwent thumb surgery to use his iPhone

North Denver News reported that Thomas Martel, 28, had his thumbs surgically altered so he could better use his iPhone. A new surgical technique called “whittling” involves making a small incision into both thumbs and shaving down the bones, followed by careful muscular alteration and modification of the fingernails. Mr. Martel reportedly said, “Sure, the procedure was expensive, but when I think of all the time I save by being able to use modern handhelds so much faster, I really think the surgery will pay for itself in ten to fifteen years. And what it's saving me in frustration – that's priceless. InformationWeek claims the story is false – the doctor who developed the procedure is not listed in the Denver phone directory and writer of the story hasn't returned any of their calls.

The guy who was almost killed by his i Phone

Mr. Travis Gohr just may had the first-ever documented iPhone injury. It happened when Gohr was using a treadmill and his iPhone slipped off, hit the treadmill surface and was launched backward. Gohr's injury resulted from him following the phone's 'trajectory' with his head, losing his balance and falling on the moving treadmill. Scary!

The woman who fell pregnant thanks to an iPhone app

After trying to conceive for four years, mother Lena Bryce fell pregnant two months after downloading an app on her i Phone. The Menstrual Calendar i Phone app tells women when they're most fertile, acting almost as an alarm for shagging time. Stories of babies born from women impressed by the light saber app are unfounded, meaning baby Lola is probably the world's first to be born thanks to antiphon app. Or at least, the first baby to be branded with the horrendous moniker of 'i Phone baby' by the tabloids.
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World's youngest Hot Pepper-Eater

Naaman Amer World's youngest Twenty-month-old Palestinian boy enjoys eating hot pepper at his home in the West Bank city of Nablus, on October 11, 2010. Amer started eating pepper in all meals when he was in his fourteenth month as he is considered the youngest hot pepper-eater in the world.

Liu Wei : Armless Pianist Wins China's Got Talent

Liu Wei Armless Pianist A musician who lost both arms in a childhood accident and plays the piano with his toes has won China's Got Talent, performing his version of James Blunt's love song You're Beautiful to a packed audience at the Shanghai Stadium.

All three judges on the show Sunday praised 23-year-old Liu Wei for his determination, urging him to keep on pursuing his dreams, and the Beijing native said he would try, quipping, "At least I have a pair of perfect legs."

For winning the Chinese version of the show that helped make Britain's Susan Boyle a singing star, Mr Liu will be invited to play as a guest performer with Taiwanese singer Jolin Tsai. He also has the chance for a performing contract.

Mr Liu's arms were amputated after he suffered an electrical shock while playing hide-and-seek when he was 10. At age 18, he decided to pursue a career in music, using his feet to play the piano, much as he uses them to navigate on the computer, eat, dress and brush his teeth.

China's Got Talent, a weekly program shown on local channel Dragon TV, has helped draw attention to the hopes and challenges of disabled and otherwise disadvantaged Chinese. It featured scores of acts, including a 7-year-old standup comedian, Zhang Fengxi, who won second place.

The program, which began in July, is part of British recording executive Simon Cowell's "Got Talent" franchise, which now has versions broadcasting in more than 30 countries.







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Real Life Pac-Man Discovered

Deviant Artist Kalapusa, best known for his Piranha Plant garden sculpture, is back at it, this time with a lifelike Pac-Man sculpture. As you can see, Pac isn't nearly as adorable when rendered in more than 8-bits, which is exactly why you should never make love to Ms. Pac-Man

has created a “realistic” yet very alien version of Pac-Man.





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Top 15 Extraordinary Coincidences

Life is full of coincidences, some very minor, but occasionally – extraordinary. This is a list of 15 of the most incredible, unbelievable coincidences.

15. Childhood Book

While American novelist Anne Parrish was browsing bookstores in Paris in the 1920s, she came upon a book that was one of her childhood favorites – Jack Frost and Other Stories. She picked up the old book and showed it to her husband, telling him of the book she fondly remembered as a child. Her husband took the book, opened it, and on the flyleaf found the inscription: “Anne Parrish, 209 N. Weber Street, Colorado Springs.” It was Anne’s very own book.

14. Poker Luck

In 1858, Robert Fallon was shot dead, an act of vengeance by those with whom he was playing poker. Fallon, they claimed, had won the $600 pot through cheating. With Fallon’s seat empty and none of the other players willing to take the now-unlucky $600, they found a new player to take Fallon’s place and staked him with the dead man’s $600. By the time the police had arrived to investigate the killing, the new player had turned the $600 into $2,200 in winnings. The police demanded the original $600 to pass on to Fallon’s next of kin – only to discover that the new player turned out to be Fallon’s son, who had not seen his father in seven years!

13. Twin Deaths

On 2002, Seventy-year-old twin brothers have died within hours of one another after separate accidents on the same road in northern Finland. The first of the twins died when he was hit by a lorry while riding his bike in Raahe, 600 kilometres north of the capital, Helsinki. He died just 1.5km from the spot where his brother was killed. “This is simply a historic coincidence. Although the road is a busy one, accidents don’t occur every day,” police officer Marja-Leena Huhtala told Reuters. “It made my hair stand on end when I heard the two were brothers, and identical twins at that. It came to mind that perhaps someone from upstairs had a say in this,” she said.

12. Poe Coincidence

In the 19th century, the famous horror writer, Egdar Allan Poe, wrote a book called ‘The narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym’. It was about four survivors of a shipwreck who were in an open boat for many days before they decided to kill and eat the cabin boy whose name was Richard Parker. Some years later, in 1884, the yawl, Mignonette, foundered, with only four survivors, who were in an open boat for many days. Eventully the three senior members of the crew, killed and ate the cabin boy. The name of the cabin boy was Richard Parker.


11. Royal Coincidence

In Monza, Italy, King Umberto I, went to a small restaurant for dinner, accompanied by his aide-de-camp, General Emilio Ponzia- Vaglia. When the owner took King Umberto’s order, the King noticed that he and the restaurant owner were virtual doubles, in face and in build. Both men began discussing the striking resemblances between each other and found many more similarities.

1. Both men were born on the same day, of the same year, (March 14th, 1844).
2. Both men had been born in the same town.
3. Both men married a woman with same name, Margherita.
4. The restauranteur opened his restaurant on the same day that King Umberto was crowned King of Italy.
5. On the 29th July 1900, King Umberto was informed that the restauranteur had died that day in a mysterious shooting accident, and as he expressed his regret, he was then assassinated by an anarchist in the crowd.

10. Falling Baby

In 1930s Detroit, a man named Joseph Figlock was to become an amazing figure in a young (and, apparently, incredibly careless) mother’s life. As Figlock was walking down the street, the mother’s baby fell from a high window onto Figlock. The baby’s fall was broken and Figlock and the baby were unharmed. A year later, the selfsame baby fell from the selfsame window, again falling onto Mr. Figlock as he was passing beneath. Once again, both of them survived the event.

9. Mystery Monk

In 19th century Austria, a near-famous painter named Joseph Aigner attempted suicide on several occasions. During his first attempt to hang himself at the age of 18, Aigner was interrupted by a mysterious Capuchin monk. And again at age 22, he was prevented from hanging himself by the very same monk. Eight years later, he was sentenced to the gallows for his political activities. But again, his life was saved by the intervention of the same monk. At age 68, Joseph Aigner finally succeeded in suicide, using a pistol to shoot himself. Not surprisingly, his funeral ceremony was conducted by the very same Capuchin monk – a man whose name Aiger never even knew.

8. Photographic Coincidence

A German mother who photographed her infant son in 1914 left the film to be developed at a store in Strasbourg. In those days some film plates were sold individually. World War I broke out and unable to return to Strasbourg, the woman gave up the picture for lost. Two years later she bought a film plate in Frankfurt, over 100 miles away, to take a picture of her newborn daughter. When developed the film turned out to be a double exposure, with the picture of her daughter superimposed on the earlier picture of her son. Through some incredible twist of fate, her original film, never developed, had been mislabeled as unused, and had eventually been resold to her.

7. Book Find

In 1973, actor Anthony Hopkins agreed to appear in “The Girl From Petrovka”, based on a novel by George Feifer. Unable to find a copy of the book anywhere in London, Hopkins was surprised to discover one lying on a bench in a train station. It turned out to be George Feifer’s own annotated (personal) copy, which Feifer had lent to a friend, and which had been stolen from his friend’s car.

6. Twins

The twin brothers, Jim Lewis and Jim Springer, were separated at birth, adopted by different families. Unknown to each other, both families named the boys James. Both James grew up not knowing of the other, yet both sought law-enforcement training, both had abilities in mechanical drawing and carpentry, and each had married women named Linda. Both had sons, one of whom was named James Alan and the other named James Allan. The twin brothers also divorced their wives and married other women – both named Betty. And they both owned dogs which they named Toy.

5. Revenge Killing

In 1883, Henry Ziegland broke off a relationship with his girlfriend who, out of distress, committed suicide. The girl’s enraged brother hunted down Ziegland and shot him. Believing he had killed Ziegland, the brother then took his own life. In fact, however, Ziegland had not been killed. The bullet had only grazed his face, lodging into a tree. It was a narrow escape. Years later, Ziegland decided to cut down the same tree, which still had the bullet in it. The huge tree seemed so formidable that he decided to blow it up with dynamite. The explosion propelled the bullet into Ziegland’s head, killing him.

4. Golden Scarab

From The Structure and Dynamics of the Psyche: “A young woman I was treating had, at a critical moment, a dream in which she was given a golden scarab. While she was telling me this dream I sat with my back to the closed window. Suddenly I heard a noise behind me, like a gentle tapping. I turned round and saw a flying insect knocking against the window-pane from outside. I opened the window and caught the creature in the air as it flew in. It was the nearest analogy to the golden scarab that one finds in our latitudes, a scarabaeid beetle, the common rose-chafer (Cetonia aurata) which contrary to its usual habits had evidently felt an urge to get into a dark room at this particular moment. I must admit that nothing like it ever happened to me before or since, and that the dream of the patient has remained unique in my experience.” – Carl Jung

3. Taxi

In 1975, while riding a moped in Bermuda, a man was accidentally struck and killed by a taxi. One year later, this man’s bother was killed in the very same way. In fact, he was riding the very same moped. And to stretch the odds even further, he was struck by the very same taxi driven by the same driver – and even carrying the very same passenger!

2. Hotel Discovery

In 1953, television reporter Irv Kupcinet was in London to cover the coronation of Ellizabeth II. In one of the drawers in his room at the Savoy he found found some items that, by their identification, belonged to a man named Harry Hannin. Coincidentally, Harry Hannin – a basketball star with the famed Harlem Globetrotters – was a good friend of Kupcinet’s. But the story has yet another twist. Just two days later, and before he could tell Hannin of his lucky discovery, Kupcinet received a letter from Hannin. In the letter, Hannin told Kucinet that while staying at the Hotel Meurice in Paris, he found in a drawer a tie – with Kupcinet’s name on it.

1. Historical Coincidence

The lives of Thomas Jefferson and John Adams, two of America’s founders. Jefferson crafted the Declaration of Independence, showing drafts of it to Adams, who (with Benjamin Franklin) helped to edit and hone it.The document was approved by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776. Surprisingly, both Jefferson and Adams died on the same day, July 4, 1826 – exactly 50 years from the signing of the Declaration of Independence.

Fei Jianjun - The Huge Nose Man

Fei Jianjun, 40, who suffered from rhinocarcinoma, receives a CT scan at a hospital in Changchun, Jilin province August 19, 2010. Fei found a red knot on his nose last September, which then grew into a size as big as a human fist. He did not receive any medical treatment due to poverty until the hospital offered him a free surgery, local media reported.

The Human Magnet

The Magnet women Brenda Allison - who claims that she has a powerful personal magnetic field that makes metal objects stick to her skin. Strangely, this even applies to non-magnetic objects.

Not only does the 50-year-old accounts manager from Holloway, North London, say that metal items including coins, keys and even tin lids attach themselves to her, she also claims that she inadvertently sets off car alarms, blows light bulbs and interferes with TV signals.

Or maybe she's just got rather sticky skin.

She says that she's been aware of her powers since nursery school, when she started affecting electrical equipment - but it wasn't until earlier this year that she discovered metal object would stick to her.

The novelty has long since worn off, apparently, with Allison saying that her 'magnetism' now mostly being an embarassment.

She is far from the first person to claim human magnetism - many others have claimed to have similar powers, often supporting much larger metal objects than Brenda does. Most famous are the Tenkaev family in Russia, where the supposed powers stretching across three generations, with grandfather Leonid Tenkaev reportedly able to lift 23kg objects with his chest.

There was even a conference devoted to human magnets in 1990. The Superfields conference in Bulgaria attracted 300 allegedly magnetic people - although the 'powers' don't actually seem to have anything to do with magnetism, as non-metal objects are often held as well.

This applies equally to Miss Allison, of course - despite her claims that her stickyness is down to her body generating an unusually strong electromagnetic field, most of the coins she has stuck to her in the above picture aren't magnetic. (Only the copper-plated steel 2p coin would stick to a real magnet; the copper-nickel alloys of the other coins wouldn't.)

One of the earliest human magnets, a young girl from Georgia, USA named Lulu Hearst, gained fame for her feats of magnetism in the late 19th century - but eventually admitted that it was all achieved with simple trickery.

Miss Allison says that doctors have advised her that her 'magnetism' may be due to stress.

Gabe Marsh No Legs and Only One Arm

Gabe Marsh a 6-year-old with no legs and one arm, is 'the greatest accomplishment' on the Guntersville swim team

When the Marshes adopted another child, Ed told his wife, Ann, "Well, there's one you'll never have swim.''

His pessimism was understandable. Gabe, the seventh of their 10 adopted children, was born with no legs and one arm.

Even Ann believed her string of teaching children to swim had ended. By then, her streak had exceeded 60.

She and Ed had two biological children, six other adopted children and more than 50 foster children.

But Gabe?

Gabe, who'd had "more hair than he had body,'' as Ann put it when she saw him for the first time at Huntsville Hospital, just days after his birth.

Gabe, who was four pounds, two ounces when the Marshes took him home on April 6, 2004, a then-four-day-old whose future appeared little more than being "an invalid,'' in Ed's words.

Swimming, in their view, was for children with two arms and two legs.

"He was the only child we'd taken that I had doubts about,'' says Ed, 61, the retired manager of a poultry plant. "You figure, 'What can he do?' You figure (he's an) invalid. But he's a long way from invalid, as you can see.''

Look at him. He's 6 years old, about to enter the first grade at Guntersville Elementary, a devotee of cars and macaroni and cheese.

He's wearing his black-and-red swim suit and dangling his goggles near his bicep, all that remains of his right arm.

Late on the afternoon of July 6, he's preparing to swim three events for the Guntersville swim team against Decatur in the final meet of the regular season.

"They just announced the relay,'' Ed says to Ann and Gabe.

Ed picks up Gabe and carries him toward the pool.

Spectators sitting in lounge chairs line the Guntersville pool. Some of them watch Ed and Gabe head toward Lane 2 and whisper.

"You going to go off the blocks or the wall, son?'' Ed asks just before Gabe swims the final leg of the 8-and-under medley relay.

Typical Gabe. He'll go off the blocks, just like the other kids.

"OK, Gabe, get ready, son,'' Ed says.

In a swimming suit that's too long for him, Gabe balances himself on the blocks and strains for a better view of the swimmer who's about to finish the third leg.

Ed, Ann and others who have followed Gabe's progress are expecting big things. In the previous meet, Gabe compiled his best time of the season - 1:082 in the 25-yard short freestyle.

In Guntersville's previous eight meets, Gabe has improved his time in each meet.

"We have kids who can win state (championships),'' says Mary Shea Gaston, one of the Guntersville parent volunteers. "But he's our greatest accomplishment.''

Says Gaston's 12-year-old daughter, Virginia: "At first, I was worried he'd drown. When he actually swam, he swam better than other people.''

He's the fourth and final swimmer in Event 11, the 8-and-under medley relay. He leans over the block, sees the swimmer of the third leg touch the wall.

"GET OUT OF HERE," Ed yells.

Gabe bobs and twists, turning his head in and out the water, managing to avoid the ropes on each side of Lane 2.

But almost immediately, Ed senses something amiss.

"He jumped too deep," he says.

'You beat him'

Gabe was born on April 2, 2004, at Marshall Medical Center South in Boaz. Soon after his birth, he was transferred to Huntsville Hospital, where he was placed in the Neonatal Unit as a precaution.

When he was two days old, Holly Rogers, a social worker at the Department of Human Resources in Guntersville, called Ann.

"Would you take him?'' she recalls Rogers asking her.

The Marshes usually accepted "special needs and medically fragile children,'' as Ann puts it.

Gabe qualified on both accounts. At birth, he was 8 inches long, no more than 9, by Ann's estimate.

"What's wrong with him?'' Ann asked Rogers.

Even now, the Marshes are unsure of why Gabe was born with no legs and one arm. Ann's only explanation is that Gabe's birth mother perhaps took some medication for morning sickness, now outlawed, that's known for causing birth defects.

Gabe's birth mother had come to Marshall County from Mexico about two weeks before delivery. Ann wonders if Gabe's mother had taken the medication in Mexico.

Almost immediately, Ann knew she would take Gabe. But first, she wanted to talk to her husband.

When she told him about Gabe, she made sure to leave out the part about him having one arm and no legs. She wanted Gabe's birth defects to have no effect on his decision.

"He'd take every one they called about,'' Ann says. "He thinks every one needs a home.''

There was never much doubt, really. Both Ann and Ed wanted Gabe.

With Gabe's acceptance, more than 60 adopted or foster children had been through their home. Many of them, including six of the Marshes' adopted children, have been members of the Guntersville swim team.

"From the time we get 'em,'' Ed says, "she sticks 'em in the pool.''

Ann wants her children to swim so they won't drown if they fall into a pool - her biggest fear, she says.

But she didn't think Gabe would swim, either.

"I thought you had to have two legs and arms to swim,'' she says.

Last summer, Gabe began to show an interest in swimming. Ann was in the pool at the Marshes' home on Wyeth Mountain, occupied with the other children, when Gabe swam to her.

She was unaware that he'd even been in the water until she saw him swimming underwater.

"I guess he sees the rest of the kids doing it, and he wants to do it, too,'' she says. "I guess that's why he swims.''

With one hand and no legs, Gabe, all 27 inches of him, is also capable of driving a child's battered-powered four-wheeler.

"He'll guide the four-wheeler with his left hand and he'll push the (power) button with his nub,'' Ed says.

One day, Ed found Gabe in the loft of the Marshes' barn. Like each of the family's nine adopted children at home, Gabe had managed to climb the 13 steps to the loft.

"He just doesn't realize he can't do like the rest of the kids,'' Ed says. "He doesn't realize he's handicapped.''

Before the swim meet began last Tuesday, Gabe played Spiderman games on his Gameboy DS, using his nub and his left hand, his good hand, to maneuver the controls.

When it's his turn to swim, he swims slower than usual. In the medley relay, his time is hurt by a slow start.

In the 25-yard short freestyle, he finishes with a time of 1:17.72. A lifeguard lifts Gabe out of the pool after his second race, and Gabe appears disappointed.

He thinks he has finished last, but Ann has some news after she grabs him from the lifeguard.

"Look, Gabe,'' she says. "You beat him. He's still swimming."

Gabe sees the opposing swimmer still finishing the race and laughs.

"You've swam better than that,'' Ann tells him as he licks his goggles.

"Mom," Gabe replies, "can I have an Icee?"
















































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