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Does your iPhone case match your outfit? I mean really match it? It can, now that case-maker Griffin has partnered with clothing co-op Threadless.

The first offering of this team-up is a slim polycarbonate iPhone case featuring one of two original Threadless images: clouds within the thunder and birds of a feather (shown). Both the shirt and the cases are limited runs, so if you love them, you’d better hurry. The cases go for $34.99 each.

More case designs and other accessories will follow from the partnership. At Threadless, the customers are the designers: Designs are submitted by a worldwide community of artists, and one million site members vote on which images will be made into T-shirts.

“I’ve been a fan of Threadless ever since my first visit to their retail store in Chicago,” said Mark McGlon, visual brand coordinator at Griffin Technology. “I saw immediately, from their layout and presentation, that their shirt designs would be a perfect match for our accessories.”

Now that the Kindle has ventured outside its home — the land of cowboys, blue jeans and beef — it seems that it should get a change of clothes. The Amazon-supplied leather jacket may make the e-reader look all cool and James Dean in its native land, but overseas we’re a little more conservative.

So it seems very fitting that the first English Kindle case to reach our inbox is a wool and cashmere pinstripe number, the very essence of the City Gent in protective rectangular form. It costs 22 Pounds Sterling ($36), and with its foam lining works as a protective slip case rather than mimicking a paper book’s cover like the official Kindle uniform. The maker, UK Wrappers, also offers a range of materials and designs, including a couple of tartans for Scottish Kindle owners, and a Paisley-lined number for the Irish.

It’s all very international, although I now feel that my Kindle is a little underdressed here in Spain. What should he wear, I wonder? Suggestions in the comments.

Product page [UK Wrappers. Thanks, Debbie!]

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Last month, a leaked and decidedly non-confirmed listing of random phones mentioned something called the HTC Pure. We’ve not heard anything since, but now HTCpedia has what it believes to be two photos of the thing, each one enshrouded in an unattractive case; one silicon, one garish plastic. What’s inside those enclosures is of course largely unknown, but it certainly doesn’t appear to have a slide-out keyboard, does appear to have four buttons on the face, and that’s said to be a 5 megapixel camera on the back. The site goes so far to say that this is destined for AT&T and will be the Touch Diamond2 (nee Warhawk), but if that’s the case HTC has obviously made some tweaks to the design the last time we saw it. We’re not quite ready to say these are anything other than blurry pictures of some random HTC handset, but once we have something — anything — a little more conclusive we’ll be sure to pass it along.

Update: As a few commenters have pointed out, this is the MDA Compact V, currently available in the UK under T-Mobile, which could explain the magenta case. Is this what AT&T is referring to as the Pure? We wouldn’t be surprised.

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Is this AT&T’s HTC Pure, clad in shimmering magenta? originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 22 Sep 2009 06:59:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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I admit it, I made a lot of tinfoil-hat jokes when I first heard about the Pong iPhone case. The jury is still out on the effects of cell phone radiation, but if you’re concerned about that new iPhone 3GS giving you Apple-shaped tumors, the Pong is probably perfect for you.

The silicon case has a metal lining on the inside that’s meant to diffuse radiation from your handset. According to Pong, it “chimneys” the energy out of the top of the iPhone. It’s supposed to reduce radiation from the phone by 60 percent–so that other 40 percent is kind of a crap-shoot.

The case is $60 and available now. A BlackBerry version is coming at the end of the year. I got the rundown on the case from a Pong rep; check out my video after the jump.

In life, you’ll quickly learn that everything is about timing. And thankfully for us Earthlings, Case-Mate seems just 24 hours off with this one. A day after Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke declared that this so-called recessions was “very likely over,” the aforesaid accessory maker has popped out an iPhone case for those of us who vehemently disagree. The aptly titled iPhone recession case is quite possibly the greatest thing since sliced bread the AirMail, and at just $0.99 including shipping, we figure you’ll have a tough time finding a better way to protect your cellie. Or waste $0.99, now that we think of it.

[Thanks, Andy]

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Case-Mate offers $0.99 iPhone recession case… a day after recession ends originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 16 Sep 2009 22:42:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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