Dumbest tutorial ever shows you how to turn an iPhone 6S into an 'iPhone 7'

Why?
 By 
Stan Schroeder
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Okay, this is weird. We've seen videos in which people destroy iPhonesmake fun of Apple or attempt to show what an unreleased iPhone might look like. 

Now there's a video that does all three. The concept is inherently stupid, but the implementation is technically sound. 

The video's makers, PeripateticPandas, specialize in the weird art of transforming Apple products into something else -- while completely destroying them in the process. In their latest video (above), they take two iPhone 6S devices and "transform" them into an iPhone 7, based on rumors that the iPhone 7 will have two cameras, no headphone jack and a new blue color


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Their methods are pretty drastic and involve a soldering iron, a drill, a saw, and spray paint.

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Why anyone, ever, would want to do this is beyond us, unless they had two broken iPhone 6s and wanted to prank someone into thinking they had a pre-production iPhone 7. But hey, the video is there, so if you're handy with a buzzsaw...

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Stan Schroeder
Stan Schroeder
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Stan is a Senior Editor at Mashable, where he has worked since 2007. He's got more battery-powered gadgets and band t-shirts than you. He writes about the next groundbreaking thing. Typically, this is a phone, a coin, or a car. His ultimate goal is to know something about everything.

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