This Guy’s Mom’s Square Reader Is Cooler Than Your Mom’s Square Reader

Drew Olanoff

Drew Olanoff has over 10 years of marketing, PR, customer service and support, relationship building and management, product management, and technical support experience in multiple verticals. Online, including mobile. He prides himself on being a connector. Connecting people, stories, information. He has worked under some amazingly talented and gifted PR pros while working for startups as a “Director of Community”,... → Learn More

Sunday, October 28th, 2012
Square Reader + iPhone 3G

It’s almost Halloween, which means that all of your grown up friends with kids will be crowding up your Facebook News Feed with ridiculous photos of 2-year-olds dressed as the Incredible Hulk. It also means that the inner-geek in all of us come out. Yes, it’s a fun holiday, and we love it because it brings out our creativity.

I mean, did you not see the awesome Path Pumpkins, which I’ve dubbed Pathkins?

Also, the color orange is awesome, but that’s besides the point. Our friends at Square are having fun with Halloween, specifically one engineer’s mom. She took a look at the plain old white Square reader and thought “I can jazz those up.” And jazz up she did, check these out:

My favorite is the pirate with the hat. Nice work, mom!

It’s not the first time that Square employees have gone about fixin’ up those readers in trade for Internet glory, check out the photos from last year’s office champion Square reader dress-up contest:

Think you can do better? Show us in the comments. My mom is going to be dressing some Square readers up for Christmas, so stay tuned kids.

[Old ass Square reader image credit: Flickr]


Company: Square
Website: squareup.com
Launch Date: February 2009
Funding: $341M

Square is making commerce easy for everyone. Starting with a free credit card reader for the iPhone, iPad, and Android devices, Square Reader allows anyone to accept credit cards anywhere, anytime, for a low transaction rate of 2.75 percent per swipe, with no hidden fees. Square Register serves as a full point-of-sale system for businesses to accept payments, manage items, and share menu and location information. Square Wallet, available in the US, is the most seamless way to pay,...

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