The poor blended iPhone might have thought its future would be boring after getting thoroughly chopped up in a Blendtec "Will It Blend?" promotion, but with an on-off eBay sale following the powdery smartphone has stayed in the headlines.  As you might remember, bids for the ground handset - as well as a Blendtec blender, DVD and signed t-shirt - reached around $1170 before eBay mysteriously pulled it.  Now the auction is back, and we now know why they fell foul of the strict rulebook.

Turns out, Blendtec didn't adequately indicate the condition of the iPhone in the auction title.  "Apple iPhone and Blendtec Total Blender" isn't good enough; "Blended Apple iPhone and a Blendtec Total Blender" is. 

So, just in case you're behind one of the 28 bids its already garnered - taking the price, as of writing, up to $787.77 - let's be clear.  You won't need to pass a credit check to use this iPhone, and battery life won't be an issue.  That's because it's dust.