Your wife loves chocolate, and you know she's been eying that 1.5+ lb. bar at the local Trader Joe's like a lion does a gazelle. She's also a massive Apple fan who's been dying for a shiny new iPad for months. Birthday time: the bar, or the iPad? If you're a cheap SOB, you get the bar and call it a day. If you're looking for an excuse to have an iPad in the house, you get the iPad. Or, you can do what this chap did and not only give her both, but fuse them together.
Not only did this guy encase the iPad gift in chocolate (after having carefully wrapped it in plastic first, thankfully), he had to have it shipped from London, England because they're not sold yet in South Africa, where she lives. I don't know about you, but I was cringing as I watched her slice away the chocolate with a knife from the precious prize within.
The sad part of this story, for me, is that my wife would be severely disappointed that she was shorted 1.5+ lbs. of chocolate for a piece of gadgetry goodness.
iPad un(chocolate)boxing
The prepared product:
Unwrapping begins:
The “I like chocolate, but you gave me 2 kg of it for my birthday, are you a bit nuts? look”:
Why don’t you pull on that little ribbon embedded in the chocolate?
Realisation!
Revelation:
Acceptance:
Success!!!!!!!!
With many many thanks to all the wonderful people who helped this to happen:
Simon , who waited in line forever at the London Apple Store to source the machine itself.
James and Paul, for successfully performing the carbon-freezing process, and
Karen, who went through a couple of hours of hell trying to explain what was going on to the South African customs people.
Oh, and just in case you’re worried: no iPads were harmed in this production
Update: 16:27, June 14th
Wow. Well, thanks for all the kinds words, everyone. This ran away a little more than I expected.
source:engadget
