Ever wonder what every single iPhone sold since 2007 would look like, if somebody glued them all together into a massive skyscraper towering over midtown Manhattan? Neither have we. Fortunately, Josh Orter has and he not only figured out the measurements of the hypothetical iPhone skyscraper, but also created a graphic that shows what the building would look like.
After culling through Apple sales data and crunching the numbers, Orter figured out the dimensions to the enormous screen. The math was fairly simple, with the most complicating factor being that fact that Apple switched from a 3.5-inch screen to a 4-inch screen with the iPhone 5. The building would be 5,059 feet tall and 2,846 feet wide. That's almost a mile into the sky and wider than Central Park. The total number of iPhones that comprise the structure total 352,292,000.
The iPhone tower would easily be the tallest building in Manhattan, standing at triple the height of the soon to be completed building at One World Trade Center. Orter calls the structure the Monophone. He runs a website called Stupid Calculations and offers an explanation of the math behind the monolithic iPhone construct:
"The eye-glazing calculations are laid out below for those who appreciate the dirty work but, skipping ahead, the Kubrick-inspired monophone would stretch 5,059 feet into the sky and have a base measuring 2,846 feet across (Central Park is 2,640 feet wide). Its surface area would take in 2.07 billion square inches. That's 14.39 million square feet or 330.54 acres. The new World Trade Center, by comparison, will have a surface area of 23 glass-clad acres, giving us enough screenage to watch Game of Thrones on all four sides of fourteen WTCs."
Stupid Calculations bills itself as a place "where practical facts get rendered into utterly useless ones." In the future, Orter promises calculations that will involve, among other things, tears of joy, whales and high-priced escorts. It's unclear if all of these will involve massive hypothetical skyscrapers.
