Apple employs countless designers and engineers who do everything they can to squeeze as much functionality into the iPhone while keeping it slim and pocket-friendly — only to have case makers come along and create monstrosities like this ridiculous half mug.
Last year, ThumbsUp! created an ’80s iPhone case transforming your fancy Apple creation into the clunky bricks of that era. This year the company’s back with a ’90s iPhone case that instead gives it the flip-style functionality that none of us actually miss.
It’s being sold as a handy way to take self portraits, or as a kickstand for watching movies, but this Z’Smart mirror smartphone case was really designed with only one purpose in mind — vanity.
Of all the questionable iPhone cases I’ve seen, the Smart Guard certainly raises more than just a few eyebrows. It’s designed to protect both the phone with a durable case, and the user with a can of pepper spray.
Borrowing from the design of the recoil shoulder pad you’ll find on a shotgun, the sidewalls on the iPhone GunnerCase are filled with air cells that collapse on impact, absorbing the forces and minimising the damage of a dropped handset.
If you’re looking for a way to protect your iPhone and also stick a giant, MIA-sized middle finger into almost every possible realm of intellectual property law, these cases, “resembling” classic Apple computers, are for you. Cease and decisitalicious.
If you want to sell something in tech, you can either employ cleavage or violence. In this case, the boys at G-Form are demoing their new iPhone case by beating the hell out of it with a hockey stick. Sure!
The market for phone cases is huge. Waterproof cases, leather cases, silicon cases, stick-on screen protectors, plate-glass screen protectors. Enough. It’s time to lose your cover for good, and let your phone roam free, nude, as nature intended.
