August 26, 2006

{ Tokidoki clothes your naked iPod }

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iPod skins are dangerous in my opinion: yes, they help you somewhat protect your investment, but they too often detract from it in style. I recently saw iPod skins with hideous baseball teams logos, silly stars and stripe designs, tacky tie-dye patterns, truly ugly leather wallet-like cases... Most of them are an offense for the eye, even some of the transparent jelly ones (radioactive yellow? or even worse, army green? it just looks as if your precious pod has been dropped in mud...). There is little to be argued: iPod are established design items as they are (love them or hate them) and to dress them up (even if those 'dresses' are called paradoxically skins) is not the best move... iPods are best naked. And white. Or so I thought until I found these super cool iPod skins designed by Tokidoki (more about him in a future post) and produced by iSkins. Even less to be argued here: these skins are super! Tokidoki's Japan inspired designs clothe your iPod with a layer of graphic art: flying death characters, cute milk bottles, dead panda camouflage, funky cactus are just some of the themes of these glorious cases, together with Tokidoki trademark sexy tattoed Japanese girl. And if this was not enough, together with the skin of your choice, , you are invited to buy a set of colourful earbuds by Cerulean to match! MAde to fit iPod Minis and Shuffles (not yet for iPod Video or Nano) and not very expensive (20 bucks for iPod Mini skin, 15 for iPod shuffle and 20 for the colourful Cerelean earbud set you can buy to match each skin), if you are thinking of an iPod accessory on the cheap side to go along with your white music box, this may just be it. It will definitely not take any of the style away: on the contrary, it definitely adds edge and some manga-like feeling to your toy. Perfect for the ultimate urban toy collector or the Japanese-girl wannabee that is in you.

     » Buy Tokidoki iSkins for iPod Mini
     » ...and for iPod Shuffle
     » Have a look at the gallery.
     » Tokidoki

By Tacita in Electronics & Gadgets, Reviews, Toys