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** Would they be selling Osim products which include the iCare, iSnug, uPapa and uKimono?
* iBuzz Vibrator, although it's been discontinued. Though apparently there's a two-vibrator version available now, and a Vibro Pod Digital Music Simulator... hmmmm. Wonder how many other versions are out there?
** The iBuzz has been renamed to the OhMyBod.
* 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]]''.
** 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 [[
** 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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* Intel's current line of Core processors have specific models designated by i followed by a number (i3, i5, i7, etc).
* There's a brand of iPod knock-offs called the iRiver. The only real advantage to having one is that it's (comparatively) cheap to buy. Other than that, it's slow, the sound quality is awful, and it's irritating as hell.
** Actually iRiver [[
* The japanese telecommunication company NTT Docomo had a cellphone Internet service which was also exported in some western countries called "i-mode".[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I-mode\].
* Australian telecommunications company [[wikipedia:IiNet|iiNet]] seems determined to one-up everyone by adding ''two'' 'i's to everything. Their offerings include iiBroadband2, iiPhone, and iiNetPhone.
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* ''Lock Legion: Everyone Dies'' has the iHugeStereo.
* One ''[[Attack of the Show]]'' sketch had Apple buying a state and founding their own country, <s> Idaho</s> iDaho.
* In [[Ace Attorney Investigations]], there is an airline called "iFly". [[Deadpan Snarker]] Edgeworth promptly comments on how troubling the overuse of this trope is in his [[Inner Monologue]].
* ''[[My Immortal]]'' has Vampire being described as wearing iShadow at one point.
* ''[[Retail]]'' made fun of iThings creeping into everything. [http://www.retailcomic.com/?p=4462 These must be iSweaters].
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