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Colorware’s been making the products you buy look better (or worse, if you’d like) for years on end, but up until now, it has never actually created a product from scratch. Enter the Grip for iPad, a simplistic new iPad holster that’s less of a case and more of a handle. It’s a metal frame that you bolt around the edges of your tablet, and as you can tell, it adds a major grabbing point to the side. But here’s the rub: it’s $300. Yeah, three Benjamins. We get that it’s manufactured in Minnesota using that high-priced American labor, but seriously? The major problem is just how awkward that $300 price tag looks beside the $499 MSRP of the device it’s supposed to hold; imagine buying a $13,000 set of tires for your $17,000 vehicle. It just doesn’t sit well in the cranium. And then there’s the problem of using it.

You see, as nice as it is to have a handle on your tablet at all times, it makes actually using the iPad in portrait mode practically impossible. You’re constantly trying to figure out how to work around that bulge that’s now there on the left side. Furthermore, it does essentially nothing for protection. The back is still wide open and susceptible to drops / scratches, and the front isn’t recessed in the least. Adding insult to multiple injuries, there’s not enough room to have a case wrapped around your iPad while it’s inside of the Grip. Oh, and did we mention that the slightest bump against a rough surface will rip the paint right off of the device? We’d love to love the Grip — it’s mighty pretty and it’s built like a tank — but it simply makes no sense whatsoever at $300. Even at $100, you’ve got way better options when it comes to actually protecting your iPad.

Continue reading Colorware ships its first original product: the $300 Grip for iPad (hands-on)

Colorware ships its first original product: the $300 Grip for iPad (hands-on) originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 01 Oct 2010 15:48:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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It’s been a month since we caught our first glimpse of the Galaxy Tab‘s Bluetooth Stylus and today, although still seemingly unofficial, it’s appeared in its first pre-order listing. Priced at £49.99 ($79) by UK online specialist Play, this capacitive stylus will facilitate handwriting recognition for those of us not served well enough by the Tab’s generally excellent soft keyboard. It’s also capable of hooking up to two Bluetooth devices at a time and has the extra intelligence thrown in to receive and reject phone calls — whether on the Tab or on your phone. It’s an intriguing piece of kit, maybe Samsung should go ahead and make it official now, eh?

Galaxy Tab Bluetooth Stylus emerges, up for £49.99 pre-order originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 28 Sep 2010 09:35:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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The aftermarket cell phone accessory industry will nearly double in size in the next five years, crows CellphoneAccents.com, and it’s making sure that it’ll get its share. The site has ramped up its purchasing for the holidays. While it currently has over 45,000 different products available, including of thousands of designer cell phone faceplates (like this Ed Hardy fish), they expect that number to expand by 15 percent this holiday season.

The e-commerce company has been adding anywhere from 100 to 250 unique items to its product line each week for the past several weeks. If you’re looking for a case for yourself (or just a nicely inexpensive holiday gift), give the site a try.

If there’s anything Microsoft’s Kinect has over the PlayStation Move — neither seem to have a killer app — it’s that peripheral manufacturers (hopefully) won’t be able to generate wave after wave of cheap plastic junk to wave in front of a camera. As you can imagine, PlayStation Move peripheral purveyors have no such problem, and Nyko, Mad Catz, Interworks, CTA Digital, PDP and more are pumping out plenty of plastic shells and chargers for those ball-tipped motion controllers. Hit the links below to just see how far we haven’t come.

Read – GamingBits
Read – IGN
Read – Amazon

PlayStation Move accessories charge controllers, keep your pesky imagination in check originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 23 Sep 2010 11:53:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Nuu Mini Key didn’t satisfy your desire for a physical keyboard on your iPhone? Try this TK-421 QWERTY case instead, which sexes up the formula with a swiveling package that hearkens back to the T-Mobile Sidekick. There’s still no extra battery life to be had here, and yes, the keypad connects via Bluetooth, but we’re willing to sacrifice a good bit for a totally awesome hinge and a dedicated number row. Invented, designed and sold by ThinkGeek, gadget stocking stuffer seller extraordinaire, the unit’s priced at a very reasonable $50. Shame it’s not slated to ship till “mid-November” and only then in limited quantities, else we’d snap up two right now. Watch that screen spin right round after the break.

Continue reading TK-421 abandons his post, brings us this flip-out QWERTY case for iPhone

TK-421 abandons his post, brings us this flip-out QWERTY case for iPhone originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 22 Sep 2010 20:06:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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