Customers look at Apple iPhone 5C and 5S at an Apple store in Beijing's Sanlitun area, September 30, 2014. The iPhone 6 will be sold in China from Oct 17, after rigorous regulator scrutiny led to Apple Inc reassuring the Chinese government that the smartp
Customers look at Apple iPhone 5C and 5S at an Apple store in Beijing's Sanlitun area, September 30, 2014. Reuters/Jason Lee
Customers look at Apple iPhone 5C and 5S at an Apple store in Beijing's Sanlitun area, September 30, 2014. The iPhone 6 will be sold in China from Oct 17, after rigorous regulator scrutiny led to Apple Inc reassuring the Chinese government that the smartphones did not have security "backdoors" through which U.S. agencies can access users' data. REUTERS/Jason Lee (CHINA - Tags: BUSINESS TELECOMS)

A renowned Israeli psychic who was famous in the 1970s for bending spoons using only his mind may be the bane of Apple, not teens who just walk into a device store and attempt to bend the iPhone 6 or iPhone 6 Plus using their bare hands.

Uri Geller has proven via a demonstration of his mind power that the flagship indeed bends. However, he did not use his hands or placed the smartphone inside his pants pocket but instead used his mind. He attempted to make the phone bend by voice command but failed on the first two attempts and succeeded on the third try.

However, Geller has mental powers not found in ordinary people. But his theory is that the collective excitement of Apple fans who lined up in stores to buy the newly released smartphone is the cause behind the #bendgate scandal.

"Either the phone is so seriously thin and flimsy that it is bendable with mere physical force, which I cannot believe given the extensive tests Apple would have done," Geller told MarketWatch.

He added, "Or - and this is far more plausible - somehow the energy and excitement of the 10 million people who purchased iPhones has awakened their mind powers and caused the phones to bend."

The psychic jested that Apple should hire him to provide a credible explanation behind the bending phones, which he said, is not the Cupertino-based tech giant's fault.

Geller said, "I don't own am iPhone 6 - I'm loyal to my BlackBerry and would never change - but if I did I have no doubt I could bend it with my mind."

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