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Blessed Cellphone

Brian Ashcraft of Wired was having terrible luck with cell phones: he ran through four of them in less than a year. So he took his next one to the Kanda Shrine near Akihabara, which specializes in spiritually purifying electronic equipment. Result: one shiny new purified and blessed cell phone.

He describes the process in a photo essay: Gadget Blessings: Shinto Priest Protects Electronics From Bad Mojo.

(Presumably it won’t let him browse for porn, but he doesn’t seem to mind.)

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This entry was posted on Monday, June 29th, 2009 at 1:09 PM by Jonathan Tappan and is filed under Japanese Culture. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

One Response to “Blessed Cellphone”

  1. Daniel R. Says:
    June 29th, 2009 at 4:16 PM

    Hahaha– wow. Just wow. Not that I’m ridiculing him– on the contrary, if I lost that many cell phones in a year, I would pray about it too– but seeing him go through a spiritual ritual to protect his precious gadget is an amusing sight.

    Perhaps I should read Wired magazine more often. xD


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