World's ugliest iPhone case gets artsy
Perhaps you remember Case-mate's 99-cent cardboard iPhone "recession" case, which we wrote about back in September and deemed one of the better product publicity stunts in recent memory. Well, Case-mate is now hosting a decorate-your-recession-case contest with users submitting photos of their creations. The pic with the most votes wins a Suzuki moped from the '80s.
We gotta say, the entries are pretty amusing, and while cardboard is never going to look upscale, the decorated cases are pretty hot in a sort of avant garde way.
Check out the slideshow below and feel free to let us know your favorite. We'll add more photos as entries come in (thanks to Case-mate for allowing us to post them here).
Note: The contest ends at 11:59:59 p.m. ET on November 30, 2009. To enter, visit recessioncase.case-mate.com.
Hunkered down in New York City, Executive Editor David Carnoy covers the gamut of gadgets and writes his Fully Equipped column, which carries the tag line "The electronics you lust for." He's also the author of "Knife Music," a novel. E-mail David. Follow David on Twitter.
but people have mentioned your missing sense of humor, we'll let it slide.
CNET please award 'Bling' or 'Robot Love' the moped!
2. calling yourself "anti-Obama" (or anti anyone for that matter) just proves how ignorant you are. Then again...in a nation populated by morons, I guess you're still above average. Dumb is dumb though...you can't polish a turd.
2. You're obviously not a Mythbusters fan. Polishing a turd...Myth Confirmed!
Yes, it seems like we're in a society where hating Obama (but not knowing squat about politics, let alone spelling the word "politcs") is cool.
Nancy Pelosi and Bawney Fwank bring politics into everything by trying to grab control of every aspect of our lives.
Some of us would still like to just be left alone to earn an honest living, not dependent on government and having our decisions made for us.
can we say mmm, mmm, good boys and girls?
It's unfortunate that this contest can't be about having fun and about art. It's got to be about politics. People are voting because they hate Obama, not because they love the case-- and that's not what this contest was originally about. I would feel the same way if it were a Pro-Obama case in the lead. Enough is enough. I'd rather vote for the "all black" or the "kindergartener constructed" cases.
There were a few pretty artfully crafted cases on the site. Kudos to those people who took the time to make a cool case. You guys are the winners of the contest in my book.
some interesting ones, and also some terrible ones.
so why was the World Peace one an invalid entry? I didn't exactly see anything wrong with it. nothing like a generic error message!
cnet really needs to work on their slideshow interface stuff, it's awful.
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by hubjam
December 2, 2009 2:41 PM PST
- I'm diggin the flying whale case. Wind Fish? I smell a Zelda reference.
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