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Bizarre cases, games
Wednesday, 03 March 2010
I guess someone had to do it: Hip Handmaidens, a company that sells handcrafted wares "born out of a bizarre group of talented housewives," has created the iMaxi – the only Apple iPad case with protective wings (pic)."With its durable vinyl outer layer and plush, quilted-cotton sleeve, the iMaxi helps keep your iPad clean and dry. Plus, the iMaxi's Velcro-latched, advanced wing design wraps snugly around your device. Yes, indeed.
Ultimate roadie-approved iPhone case: The OtterBox 2600 PDA case will provide enough protection for your iPhone? What you need is something like those incredible cases that roadies use to protect instruments and gear.
TUAW reader Stuart tipped them off to such a case, designed and built by a friend who creates cases for bands. Iit certainly provides a huge amount of protection. It'll also show a certain amount of panache to carry one of these Brady Cases around, flipping open the latches whenever you need an iPhone fix.
Get more out of your iPod, iPhone battery life: It's important to know how to get the most life out of your device's battery, particularly if you won't be able to charge it for a while. TUAW notes that Apple has two pages up detailing how to prolong battery life on both iPhones and iPods. The pages are far more detailed than the general lithium-battery tips floating around, and they tell you very specific steps you can take to increase your device's battery life.
Rayman and Assassin's Creed II: Two major league games hit the App Store this week, one of them for the surprise price of ... nothin'. Ubisoft has released the multiplayer version of Assassin's Creed II game on the App Store, and it's available for free for the first 48 hours. The game's a top-down multiplayer game that has you walking around the world of the console version, both targeting other players and being targeted yourself. All reports say it's definitely worth a try. (Especially for free, hey?)
Rayman 2 is also out – the $9.99 port of the 3D Playstation platformer was actually a Ubisoft property, but has been ported by Gameloft.
Killing Nazi zombies (review): Macworld says that Activision recognises the pleasures inherit in killing the fascist undead, and thus charges you a steep $13.99 to download and play their Call of Duty: World at War: Zombies. Whether or not its worth it is completely dependent on your lust for blood. The game gets 3.5 mice.
