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iProduct
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Remember how we'd attach the letters A and E to almost everything? Good times. They stood for "atomic" and "electronic" respectively, so it could damn well apply to any new gadget at the time. Ancient history now...We've moved a vowel over. The letter "i" can prefix anything and make it sound cool. People often have the misconception that only Apple does this with its line of electronic products, but nope - they weren't the first ones to flex their "i"s, and they're not the latest. Companies everywhere are cashing in on the iFad. So why "i"? Well, it likely began with the iMac, where it stood for "internet," because the iMac had a built-in modem and was designed mainly for web browsing. note In Europe at least the fad for i began in the eighties where it was commonly used as a suffix. It started with cars, such as the Golf GTi, where it notionally stood for fuel injection but did spread to non-automative products as a supposed sign of being technologically advanced. It was parodied to death by comedians like Harry Enfield and eventually became discredited for a few years before it began being used as a common prefix. It also stood for "individual", as opposed to the Power Macintosh line of professional machines. It was later codified by the iPod, the most popular portable media player. The "individual" meaning has since spread to items and software where the "Internet" definition makes no sense, so more recently people seem to figure it's used like the pronoun. As in: "This phone is mine, bitch, back off!" or "Look at me! This is what I'm like!". Ah, the power behind lowercase letters. See also Super Title 64 Advance for videogames, and Xtreme Kool Letterz for other letters that make things cool. In Speculative Fiction, this can be a sign that Everything Is an iPod in the Future. See also iPhony for direct parodies of Apple products. |
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Dropped link to AceAttorneyInvestigations: Not an Item - UNKNOWN | |
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TerraTech has the eCab, a futuristic hovering cabin for fancy vehicles. | |
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Dickensian parody Bleak Expectations mentions an "iWax" recorder. The cylinders can barely store a whole sentence, so it's quickly abandoned. | |
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Venom Snake in Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain has his iDroid for a range of diverse uses, from listening to cassette tapes to GPS... in 1984! | |
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| Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain (Video Game) | hasFeature |
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The Simpsons didn't quite go all the way with their parody because they changed Apple to Mapple and iProduct to myProduct. They still kept the formula though - when Lisa can't afford to buy a myPod, the salesman at the Mapple store offers her a pair of earphones that she can connect to her walkman to make people think she's listening to a myPod - the myPhonies. | |
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Nickelodeon's show iCarly. Hey, half the show involves the Internet. | |
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iFruit is the name given for the smartphone that Michael uses in Grand Theft Auto V. Franklin's phone, meanwhile, is based on Android phones (specifically the Samsung Galaxy), while Trevor's phone appears to be based on Windows Phones. | |
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| Grand Theft Auto V (Video Game) | hasFeature |
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Global Agenda features one of the silliest examples of this trope, with the Assault class's starting heavy weapon, the iMinigun | |
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In Rocko's Modern Life: Static Cling, Heffer buys a new oPhone 8, while Filburt gets the oPhone 9. At that moment, the store announces that the oPhone 10 is now on sale. | |
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iHum is one of the many functions of a Dis-Organizer. | |
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| Discworld | hasFeature |
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Ultimate Marvel's Ultimate Armor Wars had Iron Man using an iMan, a minimalist Iron Man suit thin enough to be worn under his clothes undetected. It also had pulse blast powerful enough to blow a finely-edged hole in whatever he was aiming at, the wall behind, and the building behind that. | |
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| Ultimate Marvel (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
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Retail made fun of iThings creeping into everything. These must be iSweaters. | |
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iMeem, before MySpace bought it. | |
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Inanimate Insanity replaces all the i in Apple products with Me to create Bland Name Products (so we have the MePhone and the MePad). This also extends to the Apple corporation itself, which became Meeple. | |
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There is a Facebook app called iLike that tracks your music-listening habits. | |
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When Top Gear (UK) made an electric car, Jeremy Clarkson insisted on putting an 'i' in the name. It was eventually christened the Hammerhead Eagle i-Thrust. | |
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| Top Gear (UK) | hasFeature |
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That Mitchell and Webb Look has the iBag, which boasts thousands of songs... in your head, and complete isolation, because it's a paper-bag that the user puts over their head. | |
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| That Mitchell and Webb Look | hasFeature |
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One of the teachers on Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide is iTeacher, a female teacher that teaches from her house via live internet feed (on an iMac nonetheless) because her self-esteem issues leave her too afraid to ever leave her house. | |
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The movie I, Robot with Will Smith featured a lower-case 'i' in its title in the movie poster, suggesting the iMac trope. The fact that Sonny and the other robots are composed of chrome metal and semi-translucent plastics and resemble walking Apple iMacs is not coincidental. | |
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One of the commercials in the Starcraft II Terran campaign is for the "iPistol". | |
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| StarCraft II (Video Game) | hasFeature |
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Commander Kitty features the iKnow, a device that functions as essentially a brain-activated smartphone, making calls, browsing the future-Internet, etc. It's been purchased by 45% of the galaxy as a whole, and is just as addictive which is appropriate, since it's actually a Mind-Control Device, and wearing it or even being on someone's friend list will get you kidnapped and replaced by an android duplicate who looks and thinks exactly like you. It's designed like a cattle ear tag, advertised by dancing silhouettes, and invented by a sheep in a blue shirt, in case the parallels weren't strong enough. | |
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| Commander Kitty / Web Comic | hasFeature |
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One Attack of the Show! sketch had Apple buying a state and founding their own country, iDaho. | |
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Futurama has at least two instances of this: iZac, a robot version of Isaac from The Love Boat; and iHawk, a robot version of Hawkeye from M*A*S*H. In "Attack of the Killer App", Mom (serving as a No Celebrities Were Harmed version of Steve Jobs) released the eyePhone, which gets injected directly into your eye, comes with no choice of carrier, and does not guarantee the quality of the battery or reception. |
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| Futurama | hasFeature |
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In the reboot version of Danger Mouse, DM's Eyepatch of Power has been reinvented as a multifunctional heads-up display called the iPatch. | |
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| Danger Mouse | hasFeature |
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Parodied in FoxTrot with the iFruit and the jPod pico. | |
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My Immortal has Vampire being described as wearing iShadow at one point. | |
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The original iPod advertisements are brutally parodied in Roger Waters' tour of The Wall. During "Run Like Hell," we get "iProtect" (attack dog with teeth bared); "iProfit" (men in suits wearing pig masks); "iPay" (a man being hanged), and others. | |
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Uncyclopedia has stuff like iRaq, iRan, the iRon, iBrows, iSuicide, iOwa, and the German-themed üPod. | |
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Some college replaced the old IR multiple-choice remotes used in a few classes with snazzy new ones that use RF, which means there's no more having to point the remote at a couple of receivers. They're suspiciously Apple-white and called iClickers, even though they don't have anything to do with internet connectivity. This is due to the original creators of these remotes were professors from the University of Illinois, where the school put 'i' in front of everything (Ex: U of I's ID would be an iCard), however, since the iClickers are now marketed outside the University, the name has become somewhat of an In Name Only. | |
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Platypus Comix discusses this in "Seven Failed Brand Crossovers"; the section about "Colgate TV Dinners" explains that TV dinners got their name to ride off of how high-tech and advanced it seemed to own a TV back then, musing that The New '10s equivalent would bear the name, "iDinners". | |
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Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf - The Mythical Ark: Adventures in Love & Happiness features robotic versions of Weslie and Wolffy named iWeslie and iWolffy, respectively. | |
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The Witchblade anime has iWeapons. Though in this case "i" stands not for "internet"... | |
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Calvin attempts to name a radio that one of the other protagonists invented the "iRadio" in Calvin & Hobbes: The Series. | |
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Homestar Runner: In the Strong Bad Email "looking old", Bubs recommends adding an i to the front of Strong Bad's name to make him more popular with the youth of today. Strong Bad points out he tried it with 'e' in the late 90s and it failed catastrophically. Lowercase "i"s seem to be a Running Gag on the site, in any context. Supposedly it began with the fact that the font used to write the name of Trogdor the "BURNINATOR" has an uppercase I that looks lowercase, and it took off from there. |
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In the Strong Bad Email "looking old", Bubs recommends adding an i to the front of Strong Bad's name to make him more popular with the youth of today. Strong Bad points out he tried it with 'e' in the late 90s and it failed catastrophically. | |
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The Last Dragonslayer: Discussed and Lampshaded. Kazam Mystical Arts Management's rival House of Enchantment, Industrial Magic, is mentioned in the first book but doesn't play a significant role in the story. It undergoes a makeover and rebrands itself "iMagic" in book 2. | |
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