Because Sausages Are Always Easier To Procure Than Dead Hobo Fingers.

Confession: I covet the iPhone. Probably your iPhone, because everyone has an iPhone except me.

Sure, my Blackberry does the important jobs (kinda) but it hardly does cool things.

The only sure fire feature my Blackberry had over the iPhone was the fact that I could still type and do things with gloves on unlike the uber cool touch screen which needs naked flesh to respond. Naked flesh — or sausages.

You heard me. Clever iPhone users in Korea have discovered that the touch screen also responds to snack sausages. Yes, the consistency of a snacking sausage was close enough to a human finger to work on the iPhone touchpad. *shiver*

Well, my snack sausages will never taste the same again.

but maybe I need to pay attention to this idea. The naked flesh requirement of the iPhone is not practical for parents
like me, who spend hours in the freaking Canadian cold-ass winter
watching children play. Because not having to take of the gloves means
having the ability to fight extreme boredom and multi-task while not
losing digits to frostbite. Fingers. They are important. Unless you have sausages.

I wonder if there is a vegetarian alternative?

Once this story spreads I imagine there will be a spike in North American sausage sales. Buy stock now. You're welcome.

This sausage discovery is a massive relief for me because I was really worried for the hobo population. I really do need to get out more.

source via boingboing