Ipad Accordion!

June 4, 2010 12:44 PM

iPad use #457 - Accordion.
posted by The3rdMan (51 comments total)

What are the other 456 uses?
posted by mrnutty at 12:48 PM on June 4, 2010 [4 favorites]

Seems like that would be really hard without tactile feedback
posted by ghharr at 12:50 PM on June 4, 2010 [3 favorites]

What are the other 456 uses?

#456: concertina
posted by bondcliff at 12:52 PM on June 4, 2010

What are the other 456 uses?

456 toilet paper substitutes
posted by wcfields at 12:52 PM on June 4, 2010

#455 Talking to dolphins, maybe.
posted by Brandon Blatcher at 12:55 PM on June 4, 2010 [2 favorites]

#123: Something for nerds to gripe about.
posted by chunking express at 12:56 PM on June 4, 2010 [1 favorite]

What are the other 456 uses?

#9: Irritate bloggers
posted by Blazecock Pileon at 12:57 PM on June 4, 2010 [3 favorites]

What are the other 456 uses?

349: Flat surface to do cocaine off.
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451: A very expensive coaster.
posted by daniel_charms at 12:57 PM on June 4, 2010 [2 favorites]

#458 - Not being an accordion.
posted by griphus at 1:00 PM on June 4, 2010 [2 favorites]

#420 Toilet Bowl Beats
posted by Potomac Avenue at 1:01 PM on June 4, 2010 [1 favorite]

#456: concertina

There actually is a concertina iPhone app.
posted by burnmp3s at 1:02 PM on June 4, 2010

#81 - Desk
posted by swift at 1:04 PM on June 4, 2010

I like the Korg emulator better.

Also just released last week is Rebirth, by Propellerheads Software. I like the idea of having a TB-303, an 808 and a 909 that's portable...
posted by daq at 1:05 PM on June 4, 2010 [4 favorites]

#128: iPad TV
posted by chunking express at 1:05 PM on June 4, 2010 [1 favorite]

451: A very expensive coaster.
posted by Cat Pie Hurts at 1:05 PM on June 4, 2010 [1 favorite]

I would think the iPad accordion would be impossible to play without looking at it, because you'd get no tactile feedback at all, particularly on the button side. I've never played one, though, so I'm guessing.
posted by immlass at 1:10 PM on June 4, 2010

Needs more lederhosen.
posted by ooga_booga at 1:12 PM on June 4, 2010

#235 Cat Toy
posted by Brandon Blatcher at 1:13 PM on June 4, 2010

Someone squeezed the squeeze out of the squeezebox.
posted by Jode at 1:14 PM on June 4, 2010

#168 Snort lines off of.
posted by Danf at 1:17 PM on June 4, 2010

(damn you mr. charms. . .)
posted by Danf at 1:18 PM on June 4, 2010

#722 Frisbee
#723 Discus
#724 Lawn dart
#725 Captain America's iShield
#726 Star Trek LARP Accessory
posted by blue_beetle at 1:18 PM on June 4, 2010

It's really not a simulated accordion so much as it is a simulated self-powered reed organ. I mean they don't even have to pretend to work the bellows.
posted by anazgnos at 1:21 PM on June 4, 2010 [1 favorite]

I was just thinking, it would be cool if you had to wave it around in order to maintain a virtual air reservoir.
posted by carter at 1:25 PM on June 4, 2010

That's pretty impressive. I tried one at the store the other day and I couldn't even type a full sentence on the keyboard without making a few mistakes.
posted by chococat at 1:27 PM on June 4, 2010

#4 Golf tee
posted by Potomac Avenue at 1:31 PM on June 4, 2010

#244 Conjurer's Spellbook
posted by Smart Dalek at 1:32 PM on June 4, 2010 [1 favorite]

#101 Keytar
posted by Potomac Avenue at 1:35 PM on June 4, 2010

I thought iPad use 451 was to hold your books as ebooks so you can burn the paper copies.
posted by GuyZero at 1:36 PM on June 4, 2010 [3 favorites]

Also, seems like it would be hard without the tactile feedback of where the keys are but I don't play accordion so I dunno.
posted by GuyZero at 1:36 PM on June 4, 2010

#1 ZEITGEIST
posted by Smart Dalek at 1:38 PM on June 4, 2010 [1 favorite]

#101 Keytar

HOLY SHIT THAT RULES
posted by empath at 1:50 PM on June 4, 2010

#1001 Brick.
posted by salishsea at 1:51 PM on June 4, 2010

451: A very expensive coaster.

don't you mean:

451: A very expensive coaster.
posted by blue_beetle at 1:52 PM on June 4, 2010

I played the piano on an iPad at the Apple store, and yeah, it's pretty humbling to play a keyboard without tactile feedback. But what a great tool for learning the chord buttons!
posted by malocchio at 2:14 PM on June 4, 2010

Mama's got an iPad
She wears on her lap
And when Daddy comes home
He never gets to nap
'Cause she's playing with apps
On a product for saps
Mama's got an iPad
Daddy never liked that crap
posted by Sys Rq at 2:16 PM on June 4, 2010 [5 favorites]

A very cheap bullet deflector.
posted by fourcheesemac at 2:21 PM on June 4, 2010

# 56 Virtual Plate for people named Marc.
posted by joelf at 2:34 PM on June 4, 2010 [1 favorite]

Also see the spoon for the iphone, so you can scoop food into your mouth with the iPhone off the iPaD
posted by joelf at 2:35 PM on June 4, 2010

72 Bookend
74 1/2" Step
posted by xorry at 2:50 PM on June 4, 2010

128 Fancy time display unit for Flavor Flav
129 Bib
130 Toilet Lid
posted by xorry at 2:53 PM on June 4, 2010

322 cutting board
323 ironing board
324 boogie board
325 board
posted by Sys Rq at 4:09 PM on June 4, 2010

Unnecessary. The world has enough accordions.
posted by Cranberry at 4:24 PM on June 4, 2010

Unnecessary. The world has enough accordions.

The definition of "enough" here is "zero", right? That way any positive number of accordions is too many.
posted by spitefulcrow at 4:54 PM on June 4, 2010

#1-#228: Avoiding Flash content
#229-#456: Avoiding USB cables
posted by DU at 6:19 PM on June 4, 2010

#999 Death Star
posted by wallstreet1929 at 6:49 PM on June 4, 2010

This really hit a nerve, evoking both accordion hostility and ipad hostility.
posted by Jode at 8:05 PM on June 4, 2010

Welcome to hell, here's your accordion iPad.
posted by Blazecock Pileon at 10:42 PM on June 4, 2010

Yeah, but can he play "Lady of S'pain?"
posted by Twang at 12:03 AM on June 5, 2010

Thank you. You are a connoisseur and a gentleman.
posted by mistersquid at 6:49 PM on June 5, 2010

I have made a comic about this thread
posted by The Whelk at 8:21 AM on June 9, 2010