The iPhone girl.

This isn’t research as much as social observation, but have you heard about the iPhone girl? I noticed her story on reddit but she’s popping up all over the place:

China’s “human flesh search engine” is in hot pursuit of an unnamed Chinese factory worker after photographs of her showed up unexpectedly on a new iPhone 3G purchased recently in Britain.

FoxConn representatives have confirmed to several Chinese newspapers that the woman – dubbed the “iPhone girl” – is an employee of the company.

The spokesman said workers had most probably been testing the phone’s camera and had forgotten to delete the photos. He said those involved would not be fired for the mistake.

“Small mistakes are unavoidable,” the news agency AFP quoted FoxConn spokesman Liu Kun as saying. “I would call this a beautiful mistake.”

He said the factory worker in the photos was “quite nervous” after her face appeared on websites and in newspapers.

I try not to use copyrighted images here, but she did stick it as the background of a new iPhone, so here:

You want to see technology putting a human face on production? Here. A human face. In the factory.

In a perfect world, she would marry Zhou Xixi, the “Ringtone King of China,” and they would make beautiful, quirky music and images together.