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* iRobot (the makers of the Roomba) chose their name back in the mid 90s, long before this trope really got going. The name is of course a pun on the [[Isaac Asimov]] book ''[[I Robot (Literature)|I Robot]]''.
** The movie ''[[I Robot (Film)|I Robot]]'' with Will Smith featured a lower-case 'i' in its title in the movie poster, suggesting the iMac trope. The fact that Sonny and the other robots are composed of chrome metal and semi-translucent plastics and resemble walking Apple iMacs is not coincidental.
* TrekStor makes the i.Beat line of [[MP 3]] players. They caused a minor controversy when they brought out a black model -- and [[What an Idiot!|named it the i.Beat Blaxx]].
** Would that have been any better if it was called the [[Incredibly Lame Pun|i.Beat Box]]?
* The video/photo-editing software company Ulead called one of its photo-cleanup programs iPhoto long before Apple started doing using this trend. In this case, the "i" did stand for the pronoun, as the message being launched was "a photo-cleaning so simple, even I can use it". When Apple started doing the iName stuff, they were dismayed to find that iPhoto was already taken, so they paid Ulead a significant amount of money to get Ulead to change the name of its product and sign over the rights to name future products.
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* There are a lot of icons that parody the iPod commercials which have iTrope captions. [http://community.livejournal.com/ipodicons This Livejournal community] and this [http://macrochan.org/tag45 gallery] are chock-full of 'em.
* ''[[Witchblade (Anime)|Witchblade]]'' Anime has iWeapons. Though [[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot|in this case]] "i" stands ''not'' for "[[Everything Is Online|internet]]"...
* The [[
* iHum is one of the many functions of a [[Discworld|Dis-Organizer]].
* I AM A ROBOT PIRATE. YO-HO-HO AND A BOTTLE OF RAM! I wear an iPATCH.
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