Tim Fite has the rarest iPhone. It’s not the iPhone 6 or even the elephantine 6 Plus. It’s his own design, a fused-glass rectangle that he calls the Phoney. It has no circuits, no wires, and no buttons: a brick for your hand. “You can’t make a call with the Phoney,” Fite said the other day, picking one up off a table in his Brooklyn apartment. “But you can make a point.”
The Phoney is part of Fite’s latest project, “iBeenHACKED,” a satirical meditation on the encroachment of high-tech devices into modern life. Fite, a thirtyseven-year-old musician and artist with a passing resemblance to the actor Jonah Hill, has released nearly a dozen albums, first as part of the hip-hop duo Little T and One Track Mike (they had an MTV…
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The New Yorker (Digital) - 1 Issue, Oct-06-14