At SXSW in March, a Blogger party was held. I didn’t really get there on time but my friends Jason Falls and Jane Quigley made sure that I was taken care of with these somewhat uncomfortable (but altogether pretty unique) gloves:
At South by Southwest, they also handed out HUGE Blogger stickers:
It’s a little too big for a laptop (especially the 12″ screen I’m using to write up this blog post), but it’s definitely got “memorable” attached to it!
Last month, my favorite schwag service Startup Schwag had a great grab bag filled with high quality goodies and fun.
The shirt refers to social search service lijit. The stickers are from Amazee, a social collaboration platform, Book Glutton, a social book discussion website, Shoutlet, a web 2.0 marketplace, Zambino, a video advertising platform, and Lazygirls.info, a celebrity resource site. There was also a cool deal for ReturnMoi which aims to recover lost items to their rightful owners and a pin for Pixish, an online social image site.
I know how many people have claimed that they wish they got schwag, and Startup Schwag is really one of the best ways to get high quality stuff on a recurring basis. I can’t recommend Startup Schwag enough. It’s $14.95/month, but you get all this (and sometimes even more; no, I did not get that awesome Ubuntu shirt!)
One of my favorite teams of budding entrepreneurs is a team of brilliant minds located in the same state that I grew up in: Florida. They operate a site called Grooveshark, where you can listen to music for free and earn DRM-free songs … without any catch or charge.
Grooveshark also has this awesome T-shirt. Like, seriously. I heart this shirt. I am seriously considering designing my own t-shirt after this concept.
After spending the last several months testing the InvisibleShield from Zagg on my iPod and cell phone, I have to say that it’s a lot of fun to try to stab it with a fork and see that there’s absolutely NO damage to the device at all. I’ve since purchased many more InvislbleShields (protection for a new phone, my digital camera LCD, etc.) and the investments have been great. It really is military grade protection.
This is the box.
Inside is a special applicator liquid and a squeegee for excess liquid. It’s recommended that you are liberal at applying the liquid — it’s okay if there are bubbles that are made from the liquid, as you’ll be able to push it out with the squeegee. Don’t make it too dry or else it will look like your gadget has acne. (I do, unfortunately, speak from experience.)
Once the shield is securely fixed to your gadget, let it dry but be sure to use the squeegee to remove excess liquid. The air bumps will usually work themselves out as long as you were liberal in your liquid application.
Eventually, you’ll have a really interesting and protected device. You can try to stab it with a fork and a knife and nothing will happen. You can get your dog to scratch it and even try to get your keys to attack, but it won’t cause damage to the device.
Here’s a YouTube video of it being applied to the iPhone:
Here’s a stress test:
And after that, as you can tell, your device really can’t get more secure. The shield itself doesn’t interfere with other protection like iPod Shades (or my personal favorite, the Griffin Reflect iPod Case), so if you want added protection, go with both!
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