I really wish I'd taken better pictures of the thing. Apparently my digital camera was out of commission or something, because I took the pictures with the actual iPhone camera, requiring a goofy set-up with two mirrors, and me in the background. Talk about kluging! Alas, at the time I didn't know I'd be starting a blog about handmade design... Anyway, that one and this one are the only two I have:
...but I think you get the idea. Maybe I'll make a new one for my current iPhone, Harold.The story is, I got this phone the day they came out, and at that time they didn't have the huge selection of cases and cozies that they have now. I had to protect "my precious," and of the three or four designs on the market that seemed really protective, I wasn't happy with the design.
My solution was to wrap the whole thing in rubber bands. I left open the places that I needed to access (the entire screen, the speaker and microphone, all the buttons and switches, and the camera lens). It took some engineering, but in the end, I could drop the thing, and it would bounce. And, the look was definitely my style: hand-made.
I've given some thought to marketing these things, but it's complicated because it pretty much has to be constructed on the phone. And who's going to mail me their iPhone for a week? The key would be to design it so it can be popped on and off in one piece. Maybe if there was some kind of elastic glue or gel... I could make a cast of my phone (scary!!), and for each case: wrap the cast in the rubber bands, glue all the bands together and maybe even coat it in the glue, let it dry, and then pop it off. Anyone have any suggestions? Silicon glue?? It would have to be really elastic though...
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