After yesterday’s post about the Smirk About lineup of gadget skins, I got to wondering, how many of you guys actually skin your gadgets?
I mean, adding a skin to your phone or laptop does help mark it as yours in a marketplace of gadgets that tend to all look a bit samey-samey. But then again, throwing a sticker on your Macbook’s lid may reduce your ability to resell (or even regift) it a few years down the track when you’re looking to upgrade.
And then there’s the argument that gadgets are starting to pay attention to design, so there’s less need for skinning anyway.
So tell us, do you personalise your gadgets with skins or stickers or engraving?
Cam
Thursday, February 18, 2010 at 10:45 PMI skinned the wife’s iphone when she was looking for a cover which wasnt just a hard back (which usually add bulk anyway, but I’ve seen a lot crack or blemish), and wasnt one of the silicone sleeves (which seem to get stuck in peoples pockets when they pull the phone out).
She constantly gets comments about it and plenty of friends have now done the same to their iphones.
Sean Tam
Friday, February 19, 2010 at 9:36 AMi put an invisible shield on my htc dream and would probably have put on one of those smirk ones if i saw them before. have had the shield on for about 6 months now and one of the corners are coming off, its kinda just flapping around and i have a free replacement because the original one they sent me had a manufacturing flaw.
Just havent been bothered to take off the original skin to replace. also because i think that the first time i put it on, i must of used too much of the liquid and managed to short out some of the keyboard circuts, which i then needed to send the phone in for a warranty repair…
but apart from that would definately consider for my next phone, especially one of the smirk ones which dont need water to put on
John Kirkham
Friday, February 19, 2010 at 4:16 PM9 out of 10 dermatologists prefer skin !