It’s not November ‘09 as originally promised, but Novothink has now announced that its Solar Surge charging cases for the iPhone and iPod touch are finally available. Those will run $79.95 for the iPhone 3G/3GS version and $69.95 for the iPod touch version (second gen only, it seems), which are each available only in black or white at the moment (additional colors are “coming soon), and should add between four and eight hours of talk time, or up to 20 hours of additional audio Read the full story
Remember that wireless induction charger that we saw poking around at the CES iLounge Pavilion earlier this year? Seems that Case-Mate has finally given that little doohickey a name, a price and a ship date. The aptly-titled Hug (which consists of the Hug Case and Hug Pad) slips onto one’s iPhone 3G or iPhone 3GS and allows Apple’s darling to get recharged by simply laying on the aforementioned platter. Of course, the case itself is distractingly bulky, and this whole thing relies on the Read the full story
You know, for all the praise the iPhone has received in its time, we never thought it looked quite Matrix-y enough. Thankfully, that all-important deficiency has been remedied by a man named Ryan Glasgow up in Portland, who has just started selling the above case to all who care to have one. It’s built out of stainless steel on the outside and silicone padding on the inside, with strategically located cutouts for wireless signals and heat emissions to get through. You can flip the front plate Read the full story
There are many ways to say, hey friend, you’ve been an important element of change in my life. But the best way—by far—is to place that person’s visage, charcoal print style, on your iPhone. $6
Herrman calls this Case-Mate iPhone 3G/3GS case “high stakes iPhoning”, and he’s right. This is saying to potential muggers, “I’m going all in. If you want it all, just take my phone.”
There’s no denying the convenience of putting all your stuff into one device when you want to travel light. Potential ID-flinging when you take the phone out of your pocket aside, it’s definitely an interesting idea, and a physical interpretation of