Remember the iPod socks ? Those brightly colored woolly wraps, sold back in 2004, that swaddled your iPod like it was an infant? In things we did not have on our bingo card for 2025, Apple has decided it is time to bring the knitwear back for the latest iPhones .

Meet the iPhone Pocket : a glorified yarn sling for your phone and whatever else you can cram in there without stretching the poor thing into oblivion. It looks a bit like a sweater you shrank in the wash and then tried to stretch out. Or maybe a mankini .

If Dr. Seuss were involved, we would call it a thneed .

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A woolly iPhone sling? Really?

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